A class in basic fundamentals of GIS using QGIS.

Slides are available here.

Outline for the Class

• Why map?
• What is GIS?
• Orientation to QGIS
  • Open a shapefile (boroughs of NYC)
• Basic operations in QGIS
  • Make a basic map
  • Add a shapefile layer with points
  • Query and filter by attributes
  • Apply basic styling
• More operations in QGIS
  • Select by location
  • Select by attribute
  • Export data
  • Introduction to file structure
• Creating a better map
  • Adding base maps in QGIS
  • Working with CSV data in QGIS
    • Projections
    • SRIDs
  • Using Print Composer to create a map
• Lunch
• Recap of morning session
  • What did you learn this morning?
• Applying lessons
  • Reproject data
  • Geoprocessing
    • clipping
    • buffering
    • advanced filtering
  • Styling data
    • symbology
    • readability
    • use of gradients
  • Presentations
    • Task to participants: Upload a PDF map to the provided URL and discuss your map in class
• Final topics
  • Raster data
  • Data sources
  • Other data types (KML, GeoJSON)
  • QGIS vs ArcGIS
  • Plugins
  • Edit attribute table
• Resources