[Qgis-user] How to Learn QGIS.

[Emma Hain]

Just a little correction for online services - I didn't finish it before I
pressed send
- you can extract from WFS and ArcGIS Rest Services
- you cannot extract from WMS Services
- load up online services in your Browser panel by right-mouse-clicking the
service type (View/Panel/Browser if it isn't already loaded)

On Wed, 10 Jan 2024 at 10:42, Emma Hain <emma at north-road.com> wrote:

> Hi Priyank
>
> Here are my tips
> *Training*
> There is so much online stuff for QGIS. Here are some links:
> https://www.qgistutorials.com/en/
> https://www.youtube.com/@KlasKarlsson
> https://www.youtube.com/@HansvanderKwast
> https://www.youtube.com/@geodeltalabs
> https://www.youtube.com/@burdGIS
>
> *Tools*
> - Don't forget to use AI to help you as well in this area.
> - Also check out possible Plugins to help you.
> - Start with QuickMapServices to give you backgrounds e.g google. You will
> need to go through the settings to load them in
> - QGIS Resource Sharing to find other things such as symbology, scripts &
> etc
> - OSMDownloader to download OSM data
> - Layout Loader to help guide you to select possible map layouts when you
> need to print out your results
>
> - Check out the
> *Data*
> - don't download a heap of data
> - always use the online services (ArcGIS Rest Services) - if these are
> available -  and extract what you need for each project
> - create a geopackage per project and put your datasets in that
> - use meaningful names, I also date some of my files, just in case I have
> to repeat processes - otherwise you can use versioning
> - use the format .gpkg (geopackage) as there are so many functionalities
> associated with it that are helpful for complex projects, such as saving
> the layers style etc.
> - QGIS can use geodatabases, but I would only use them if I am
> interchanging between ESRI and QGIS
> - ensure you have the right to use the data in your work
> - if you are running processes, at the end of each process, you can
> collect the parameters by either copying the log (on the lower right hand
> part of the Log or click on ctrl+A) or click on the Advanced Tools/Copy as
> Json and paste these into the Metadata 'History' section.
>
> *Folder organisation*
> - Generally this is the folder structure I have for geospatial activities:
> [image: image.png]
> - Always have a WKG (working) folder in your projects that you can put
> your tests/trials and any other files that are not your final work - this
> means you can control your storage space.
> - For the data folder, create category folders and follow the topic
> categories here
> <https://icsm-au.github.io/metadata-working-group/defs/TopicCategory>.
>
> *Wildlife GIS*
> - If you google QGIS for fauna ecology, you can check out the results
> there, you are better to judge what you need.
> - I have previously undertaken ecology studies with environmental
> scientists and QGIS is brilliant for it, but so versatile that you really
> need to be the judge of what you need to do and then google it/find your
> mentor/or just go for it and find the right tool to help provide your
> outcome
>
> *Community*
> Well you have taken the first step into your QGIS community - congrats.
> Try and connect with your regional community as well so you can meet
> others face to face.
> There are lots of links for QGIS
> <https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/usergroups.html>and OSGeo
> <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Local_Chapters>(which is the overarching
> community for Open Source Geospatial) and think about attending a FOSS4G
> event locally or the global one this year in Brazil.
>
> I hope this helps and good luck for your mapping - Welcome to QGIS!
>
> Cheers
> Em
>
> On Wed, 10 Jan 2024 at 08:54, Priyank Shah via QGIS-User <
> qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I'm a student pursuing my masters in wildlife biology, recently I came
>> across the concept of GIS and its applications in Wildlife, so  with that
>> willingness to learn something new and upskill myself I want to learn QGIS
>> and its applications with Wildlife.
>>
>> That being said I stumbled upon the resources on the QGIS website
>> itself but at the beginning only I faced problems with having to download
>> shape files, like how and where to download them from and what should be
>> the file type for it to function in QGIS.
>>
>> And Lastly if anyone is knowledgeable or uses QGIS for Wildlife can
>> someone tell me which aspects of the software do I need to have more
>> emphasis on?
>>
>> Thank You.
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