[Qgis-user] Basic Help

[Patrick Dunford]

Hi Louise

These are all fairly straightforward queries to work on, so I am sure
it is just a matter of learning the way the software works. I have been
using this software for about five years and it is one of the best open
source packages I have ever worked with.

It may be more useful for you to sign up to the GIS forum at
stackexchange (gis.stackexchange.com) where the web based format is
easier to work with.

On Fri, 2017-10-27 at 10:29 -0700, Louise Duffy wrote:
> I don't know if this is the correct format for asking these
> questions, so please re-direct me as needed.
>  
> I am used ArcMap for many years to perform pretty basic stuff, but I
> am not finding QGIS to be as easy of a transition as I had hoped. I
> am now self-employed, doing some part time consulting for a few
> clients and I do not have the budget to buy ESRI products, especially
> when QGIS has such promise. 
>  
> In the past, my normal use of GIS was to pretty focused on being able
> to connect dots from GPS data, digitize features using aerial
> photography and other basemaps. Producing a variety of maps for
> projects that included exported tables of that data to show
> coordinates, lengths, area or other characteristics.
>  
> I downloaded QGIS version 2.14.19-Essen. I am not familiar with
> programming languages, scripts or other behind the scenes stuff. When
> I have looked at tutorials QGIS has, the screens do not match what I
> see or the process does not work as expected. I don't know if I am
> missing something with the install or just need a friendly guide to
> point the way.
>  
> Right now, I specifically need help with four things: add basemaps
> from external sources (aerial, street, usgs quad), calculate/display
> area of polygons in attribute table; add X,Y coordinates of existing
> points to attribute table; search for and add points based on X,Y
> coordinates. 
>  
> Thanks!
> Louise
>  
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