1 Exploring QGIS

This exercise will introduce some of the basic features of QGIS. Along the way you will also become more familiar with QGIS.

1.1 About QGIS

QGIS is a free and open source software you can download from www.qgis.org. and distribute through as many computers as you wish.

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It is handy to bookmark the official QGIS documentation.

1.2 Exercise

Resources

For this exercise you will need this dataset. The dataset contains the following layers:

  • admin_regions.gpkg (vector layer containing the administrative regions of Guyana)

  • rivers.gpkg (vector layer containing the main rivers of Guyana)

  • roads.gpkg (vector layer containing the main roads of Guyana)

  1. Task 1 Start QGIS and add the three layers

  2. Task Go to Plugins > Manage and install plugins... the plugin Quick map services and add one base map to your project.

  3. Task In the Layer's panel create two groups (i.e. folders): one called artifitial and another one called natural

  4. Task Drag the admin_regions and roads into the group artificial and the rivers layer into the group natural.

  5. Task Re-order the groups and the layers inside in such a way that all the layers are visible.

  6. Task Save your QGIS project and share it with a colleague.

  7. task Open a project created by a colleague.

  8. task Re-arrange one or two toolbars in a way that it is convenient.

  1. task Make sure the Processing panel is visible