Hands on with QGIS
1 To get started with this workshop, you’ll need to first download the data and files from this GitHub repository. To do this, click on the ‘Download Data’ button below to start the download. Once complete, extract the contents of the .zip file.
2 Open the new intro-qgis-project-files folder. This is your project folder which contains the items:
- data subfolder: where your project data is stored. All of these files are derived from data found from the City of Vancouver’s Open Data Catalogue.
- vanTreeMap.qgz: a QGIS project file containing the workshop’s maps and data
3 Double click vanTreeMap.qgz to open the QGIS project.
For this workshop, we will begin with a pre-made project that contains clean data that is organized into folders. The project file contains paths to data layers so that they load in the Map Canvas when the project starts. The project file also contains any style settings that have been applied to your data layers. It is important that you keep the paths to your data layers intact to avoid broken links. The best practice is to keep your data organized in folders associated with your project so that they are logically arranged in folder systems from the very start of any project.
Another real-world scenario is that you would begin your project by searching for and evaluating data that you need, which can be a time consuming (and potentially expensive!) step. It’s also common to have to clean, transform, or otherwise process your data in order for it to work correctly in your GIS project. We are avoiding that step by design for this introductory workshop.
Table of contents
- QGIS GUI
- Layer Properties
- Add Data
- Layer Attributes
- Selecting Attributes
- Geoprocessing Toolbox
- Choropleth Map
- Label Neighbourhoods
- Compose for Print
- Save Project
- Optional - Add Basemap