This tutorial demonstrates how to install QGIS, set up and locate functions and tools in the QGIS interface, add spatial and tabular data to QGIS, perform simple GIS analysis, and create a formal map.
Category: QGIS
QGIS is a very powerful and customizable software. However, one of its shortcomings is that it only comes with one default basemap, Open Street Map. The great thing is that it is very easy to add...
QGIS is an amazingly powerful, free GIS software. In my opinion, it's the best free GIS software there is and even outperforms expensive, enterprise software in some instances (looking at you ESRI)....
The only basemap available with QGIS is Open Street Map. Open Street Map is a good, basic basemap but sometimes context from aerial imagery is required to properly convey the meaning of a map. The...
Many types of geographical data represent 3-dimensional features. Displaying these data in compelling visualizations can often be difficult when limited to a 2-dimensional screen or piece of paper....
Spatial Joins with QGIS Using the “Join Attributes by Nearest” Tool
A spatial join is operation performed on spatial vector data that links the attributes of one feature set to the attributes of the closest feature in a second set. The result of a spatial join is a...
