GIS

Tools and Workflows in QGIS

June 12, 2025, 10:00 am to 12:00 pm

Date: Thursday, June 12, 2025
Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm
Presenter: Lily Crandall-Oral
Location: Online

This intermediate-level workshop is focused on common tools and workflows in QGIS. By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to set up a QGIS project, find and load data onto a basemap, edit vector data from inside the GIS interface, perform joins and selections, and answer spatial questions using basic vector analysis. Familiarity with GIS is prerequisite for this workshop.

This workshop is taught by a graduate student in Geography with expertise in GIS and cartographic methods.

Things to do before arriving:

QGIS is a free and open source desktop geographic information system (GIS). It can be installed on Windows, MacOS, and Linux using the download instructions here: https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/download.html.

Before attending, please download the most recent QGIS Long Term Release and review the Research Commons' Introduction to QGIS.

Location details:

Location:
*ONLINE*

If you have questions, concerns, or accessibility needs, please email alexandra.alisauskas@ubc.ca

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Campus/Source
UBC Library–Vancouver

https://libcal.library.ubc.ca/event/3898140

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