GIS for Beginners #5: Present maps with QGIS3. +FREE eBook
What you'll learn
- How to find your way around the QGIS layout
- How to insert maps and inset maps / locator maps
- How to add legends, scale bars, north arrows
- How to use templates
- How to design maps that are easy to understand
- How to export geotiff, SVG and geopdf files. And metadata to accompany them.
- The power of a geopdf in adobe acrobat
- How to use variables in text descriptions, and a cheats way to format them in html.
Requirements
- My QGIS for Beginners #1 course or equivalent. Should be able to launch QGIS, open a QGIS project, a turn map layers on and off.
- A pdf reader to open the FREE QGIS tutorial eBook. A printer too if you wish
- QGIS 3.10+ Long Term Release (LTR) running on MS windows.
- Nothing else! It’s just you, your computer and your hunger to get started today.
Description
This step-by-step follow-along style introduction to the QGIS layout is a qgis tutorial that will have you creating maps for theses, presentations and reports in no time. There's also a free 70 page eBook.
In part 1 you'll download and install the practice dataset. Then you'll learn basic map design principles.
In part 2 you'll learn how to navigate the QGIS layout, and insert a map and an inset map / locator map, legend, scale bar, and arrange them so that your map is easy for your audience to interpret. Templates will help you create maps faster.
In part 3 you’ll learn how to add text and variables to a layout.
In part 4 you’ll learn how to export your layout into other applications (SVG, geotiff and geopdf). Most of this section is spent on geopdf export. A geopdf is a special type of pdf that includes spatial and attribute information that can be read by adobe acrobat reader. This qgis tutorial is worth doing for the geopdf section alone!
You will learn how to . . .
Add a map to a layout
Put a frame around a map and format it
Add a scalebar
Add a north arrow
Use the layout manager to add, delete and rename layouts
Align objects
Add a legend
Create a template from a layout
Add an inset map / locator map
Add text to your layout (including variables and a cheats way of formatting html)
Export your map
Print at correct scale
Geotiff, geojpg and Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG)
Geopdf files for viewing in acrobat reader.
Setup metadata and map themes that flow through to geopdf and SVG files
If you've been thinking about learning QGIS, this qgis tutorial will get you creating maps for you thesis, presentation or report fast. Why wait any longer? Scroll to the top of this page, click the BUY NOW button and start today!
Who this course is for:
- Researchers, College Students and Professionals wanting a tool to present maps for theses, presentations and reports
Course content
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Instructor
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Hi. It's great to meet you.
QGIS tutorials are what I teach. Take my tutorials and learn to use QGIS!
My QGIS tutorials make use of use the free QGIS, They come from the place of an experienced geographer and GIS consultant.
* I teach Professional people how to incorporate “spatial” into their projects.
* I teach GIS technicians how to work with the non GIS savvy.
I have worked with Geographical Information Systems for over two decades. I have worked as an academic at Monash University and a consultant in my own GIS consultancy.
GIS is a very broad topic and there are many ways to teach it. My approach is that of a geographer who uses GIS as a tool to solve geographical problems. Most GISs these days are similarly capable, but for me there is a problem in that too many GIS professionals do not understand the data they manage. Too often I see professionals discussing this-or-that modelling algorithm while failing to understand that the data they’re using for their modelling is not up to the task.
Currently based in Victoria, Australia, I have consulted on a diverse range of projects – environmental, sustainability planning, and human. Clients have included the United Nations, the Australian Federal Government, Victorian State Government, Local Governments, Australian Universities, and Water Utilities.
My refereed publications are diverse…
* Environmental sustainability modelling for Local Government planning.
* Housing affordability modelling for State Government planning.
* Buried asset condition modelling for the water industry