Brief Introduction
Learn how to leverage the power of QGIS to improve your organizations spatial strategyDescription
If you are a GIS professional who has been interested in exploring the options for open source GIS, there has never been a better time to start learning. The release of a major new version of QGIS means that what you learn today will likely be valid for many years. There have also been many improvements that make it a reasonable choice for your core GIS application.
In this course you will learn:
- What open source really means.
- How QGIS compares with commercial offerings.
- How to navigate the QGIS interface.
- What data source options are available and the advantages and disadvantages of each.
- How to style your data.
- How to use selections and filtering to control which features you view and modify.
- How to work with attributes.
- How to make beautiful printed maps.
- How to create a map atlas.
- How to analyze vector and raster data.
- How to build spatial models for repeated tasks.
- How to get started with python scripting.
- How to work with 3D data.
- Much more!
QGIS is not perfect but I believe that what it does, it does very well. Especially with multi-user editing of enterprise data. I am not anti-commercial GIS, however I do believe that all GIS professionals should have a good understanding of all their options so that they may choose the best tool for the job.
Requirements
- This course does not have any formal pre-requisites, however it is not a beginner course. I do assume that you have a basic working knowledge of GIS.