Learning The Open Source Gis Stack: Qgis 3X Desktop

become an expert in the open source GIS stack with QGIS 3.0 desktop.

What you'll learn

Understand the basic features that QGIS offers as a complete desktop GIS.

Also, you'll learn how to use advanced capabilities in QGIS including plug-ins, statistical tools, modeling tools, and database capabilities.

You'll work on actual real-world projects, with real data, to understand the GIS workflow with QGIS.

Utilize QGIS to perform raster, vector, and database manipulation

Understand how to complete a number of GIS projects from start to finish

Requirements

Some understanding of GIS.

Students should download QGIS from the QGIS website

Students should be excited about using GIS to solve real world problems, as we'll be using real data (warts and all), and not just pretend data that is perfect all the time.

Description

This course is part of an entire curriculum based on Free and Open Source GIS (FOSS4g) software, and represents one of the most comprehensive curriculum on FOSS4g.  The curriculum are grouped into the categories of Desktop, Server, and Developer parts of the FOSS4g stack.  For this course, you will learn the most popular open source desktop GIS: QGIS.  We'll start with a basic understanding of QGIS, and move on to more sophisticated uses of the software.  This course uses real data from Tompkins County, New York, and seamlessly integrates with other gisadvisor courses that will teach you Postgres/PostGIS, GDAL, Geoserver, and Python.  You'll be working alongside me as we explore the functionality of QGIS, working with raster, vector, and attribute data.  And most importantly, after you learn the basics of QGIS, we'll simulate some real-world examples of GIS projects and spatial analysis.Whether you need to learn QGIS for your job, or want to get spun up on FOSS4g to nail that big interview, this course will prepare you to work with the ins-and-outs of QGIS, and give you confidence as you interact with other GIS experts.  The curriculum is designed so that you can start with either this course, or any of the other courses.  They will refer back and forth with one another, and because we are camping out in the same geographic area, all the courses will use the same data.   As you move through each course, you are going to have experience with all the different parts of the FOSS4g stack. 

Overview

Section 1: Introducing the course, getting the materials

Lecture 1 Welcome to the course

Lecture 2 Installing the software

Lecture 3 A look at our data

Section 2: Getting started with the QGIS interface

Lecture 4 Managing the project: overview of the project menu

Lecture 5 Moving around the map canvas: overview of the View menu

Lecture 6 Working with layers, part 1: loading data from external sources.

Lecture 7 Working with layers, part 1a: adding Open Street Map

Lecture 8 Working with layers, part 2: managing layers in a QGIS projejcjt.

Lecture 9 Working with layers, part 3: layer attributes

Lecture 10 Working with layers, part 4: layer symbology

Section 3: Editing data using QGIS

Lecture 11 Editing vector data in QGIS: overview of the edit menu

Lecture 12 Editing attribute data in QGIS

Section 4: Geoprocessing capabilities in QGIS

Lecture 13 Vector GIS analysis: overview of the vector menu

Lecture 14 Raster GIS analysis: overview of the raster menu

Lecture 15 Raster GIS analysis: overview of the raster menu - part 2

Lecture 16 Expanding GIS capabilities: adding plug-ins

Section 5: The Processing Toolbox - can QGIS really do that?

Lecture 17 Calling processes: an overview of the processing toolbox

Lecture 18 The processing toolbox: cartography, file management, and network analysis

Lecture 19 The processing toolbox: raster capabilities

Lecture 20 The processing toolbox: vector analysis

Lecture 21 The processing toolbox: vector analysis (general)

Lecture 22 The processing toolbox: vector geometry

Lecture 23 The processing toolbox: QGIS, and accessing functions from other FOSS4g products

Section 6: Advanced data manipulation in QGIS

Lecture 24 Advanced SQL database capabilities in QGIS: overview of the database menu.

Lecture 25 Creating models in QGIS

Section 7: Practical spatial problem solving in QGIS

Lecture 26 assessing land use change, pt. 1: group statistics and cross tabulation matrices

Lecture 27 assessing land use change, pt. 2: group statistics and cross tabulation matrices

Lecture 28 creating watersheds

Lecture 29 Creating watersheds with a model

Lecture 30 creating dot density maps

Lecture 31 finding a least cost path and service areas

Lecture 32 Raster analysis: identifying an ecological habitat

Section 8: Presenting your data to users

Lecture 33 Putting your data on the Internet with qgis2web and qgiscloud

Lecture 34 Basic cartography: the QGIS Composer

Lecture 35 Bonus lecture: how to keep learning

GIS professionals excited to add open source software to their skillset.,Computer analysts looking to expand their skill into the open source GIS arena.,Students who want to learn what a GIS is, and how it can be used to solve spatial problems.,Professionals who know how to use other GIS software, but want to learn how to use QGIS