Cartography with QGIS

To learn how to install and use QGIS, access and present the data, style the data and produce high quality layouts with high informative content.

Course outline

• Short introduction to Free and Open Source GIS
• Installation in different operating systems
• The work environment
• Work environment configuration
• Projection management
• Projects
• Plugins management
• Vector data
• Properties, import/export, conversion between formats
  • Vector styles and labels
  • Tables of attributes and actions
  • Turn a table into a geographic layer
• How to use GPS units in QGIS
• Vector digitizing. CAD tools
• The geographic databases PostGIS and Spatialite and QGIS
• Add layers from map servers: WMS, WFS, WFS-T, CSW, WPS, OpenLayers,* Google Maps
• Importing photos as points
• Exporting data directly to Google Earth
• Raster data
  • Properties and styles
  • Coordinate reference systems management and mosaics
  • Georeferencing
• Creation of animated maps
• 3D visualization
• Advanced layouts/printing; serial printing (mapbooks)

Length

16 hours split in 4 half days