Introduction to QGIS
- Open to
- Anyone
- Training category
- Geospatial
- Type of training
- Online
- Length
- Two to three hours
- Provider
- Office for National Statistics (ONS) Geospatial Team
- Location
- Online
This course provides an introduction to working with geospatial data in QGIS for data scientists and those new to GIS and geography.
QGIS is a geographic information system (GIS) software that is free and open-source. QGIS was previously also known as Quantum GIS.
Learning outcomes
By the end of the course you will know how to:
- Navigate QGIS User Interface
- Create, save, and customise a QGIS project
- Import and export tables and spatial data to and from QGIS
- Use basic GIS tools to process geospatial data
- Edit geospatial data and perform a basic analysis
- Style layers to visualise the underlying data
- Create a basic geospatial data visualisation
How to book
Access this e-learning on Introduction to QGIS on the ONS Geography GitHub.
Contact
If you would like more information about this course, please email ONS.Geography@ons.gov.uk