Download or read book Getting Started: Qgis Tutorial & Video Course written by Ian Allan and published by Qgis 3 for Beginners. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you a Researcher, College Student or Professional? Want to add QGIS to your Toolkit without having the Hassle of Enrolling in a College GIS Course? Tired of the QGIS training around the web that's incomplete, out-of-date, or geared towards programmers and developers? This QGIS tutorial is for you! It's a step-by-step guide to the basics of QGIS 3. As your instructor I will use my 25 years of GIS consulting, research and teaching to guide you in your first Quantum GIS steps. FREE BONUS: Enrol in the captioned COMPANION HD VIDEO COURSE, download the dataset and follow along. You will be taken from GIS-disaster to GIS-master through a step-by-step QGIS tutorial that covers... Download QGIS 3. Install QGIS 3 Opening, navigating and interpreting GIS maps and air photos, and changing how they look on screen. Creating a Thematic Map: Generalizing Geospatial data. Finding colour schemes. Creating time-series Thematic Maps. The relationship between GIS maps and the tables that lie behind them. The basics of GeoSpatial analysis. Using clues from the shapes and colours in GIS maps and GIS air photos as surrogates for both socio-economic and environmental information. Validating Geospatial data. GIS concepts: Why GIS Maps have Map making GIS maps are rich databases. What is map overlay. What are the four GIS map objects. My name is Ian Allan. In my 25 year GIS career, I have authored and co-authored fifteen peer reviewed publications. I have worked professionally as a GIS researcher, taught GIS to thousands of students, and worked as a GIS consultant on a diverse range of social and environmental GIS projects for all levels of the Australian Government, and the UN. Over 3350 students have enrolled in this book's companion video course. That's the HD video course you get for free with this book. Here's some of its 119 reviews... Nathan says: Really great introductory-level course! The examples were simple to follow, but also very useful... Caesar says: It was a very good class, just what I needed to get familiar with QGIS. Carina says: Perfect course to whom have never used...QGIS! Very detailed on the explanations and really generous additional materials to study. Brian says: It was very thorough and comprehensive... Ian also covered aspects of GIS Analysis - which increases your learning and appreciation of the capabilities of how powerful the GIS tool can be Umar says: Ian is vast and knowledgeable in what he teaches... Boojhawon says: Simple and very clear lectures with the minimum basics/backgrounds to get a taste of what awaits us further and also making us think of what we can do more. SRIJON says: I have experience in using ArcGIS. I needed the QGIS taste for which I took this. If anybody who has little experience in GIS will love the 'Techniques and Tips' parts, which are very clearly and elaborately described, which will greatly help to be a GIS interpreter. And I love the line "Don't just be a tourist." It should be the tricky line between a GIS analyst and a technician... No previous GIS knowledge needed Lifetime Access to the HD video course & future upgrades Q&A area in the video course. Available as Kindle eBook and hardcopy QGIS Book Be sure to click on the Buy Now button. I look forward to seeing you inside! Ian