QGIS is a free and open-source cross-platform desktop geographic information system application that supports viewing, editing, and analysis of geospatial data.

1. QGIS BASIC TRAINING

2. Let's Get
Started
Click this link and download the file to your
desktop
Unzip the file
Open QGIS

9. Styling Features
Right-click the layer and select the Properties option
Select "Style," and finally, choose "Categorized":

10. Styling Features
•Select the column that has the data you want to style:

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12. Styling Features

13. Add labels to data
•From Properties, select "Labels", "Show labels for this
layer"

14. Add labels to data
•Select the column that has the data you want to use for
labels
•Click "Apply", "Ok"

16. Styling Labels

18. •Style the polygons however you'd like
•Change the outline colour or add a pattern
•Style the labels
•Change the font, the font size, or other attributes

19. Shapefiles
•Basic file for storing map elements
•Stores spatial data, like points, lines, and polygons
•Multiple files comprise a "shapefile

20. .shp—The main file that stores the feature geometry
.dbf—The DBASE table that stores the attribute information
of features
.prj—The file that stores the coordinate system information
.shx—The index file that stores the index of the feature
geometry
.cpg—Identifies the character set to be used
.sbn and .sbx—The files that store the spatial index of the
features

21. Shapefiles
Column names can only be letters, numbers, and underscores "_"
Column names can only be ten characters long

22. Filter and Query
•Right-click on the layer and select "Filter" to open the
Query Builder

26. Zoom to
Layer

28. •Select the zoom on the
toolbar
•Draw a box around the area you want to zoom into
•Click the icon to return to the previous map extent

29. Pan Map
•Select the hand tool to pan around the map

30. Exporting Data

31. Exporting Data

32. Selecting Points

33. Selecting Points

38. Selecting Points - Saving Selection

39. Print Composer
•How you make exportable and printable maps in QGIS
•Able to add map elements (legends, scales, text, etc)

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