{"id":133,"date":"2014-02-08T13:44:41","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T18:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brian.digitalmaddox.com\/blog\/?p=133"},"modified":"2014-07-08T16:45:20","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T20:45:20","slug":"using-free-geospatial-tools-and-data-part-6-5-qgis-documentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brian.digitalmaddox.com\/blog\/?p=133","title":{"rendered":"Using Free Geospatial Tools and Data Part 6.5: QGIS Documentation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So in the last installment I mentioned that I would do another article on QGIS. \u00a0However, after looking, there is such a large amount of documentation out there that I felt that I would just put links to some good online documents so I would not have to reinvent the wheel. \u00a0So here are a few links you can use to learn how to use QGIS as these articles will make use of it later on once I go into how to build your own large holdings of free geospatial data.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"QGIS Documentation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.qgis.org\/en\/docs\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.qgis.org\/en\/docs\/index.html<\/a> &#8211; The QGIS project itself has written up a large amount of very useful documentation on their website. \u00a0I would suggest the User&#8217;s guide and then the\u00a0<em>A gentle introduction in GIS<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Harvard QGIS Tutorial\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.cga.harvard.edu\/qgis\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/maps.cga.harvard.edu\/qgis\/ <\/a>&#8211; This guide is hosted at Harvard University. \u00a0While written for 1.7.3, the concepts are the same and gives a thorough howto for QGIS.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Quantum GIS (QGIS) Tutorials\" href=\"http:\/\/qgis.spatialthoughts.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/qgis.spatialthoughts.com\/<\/a> &#8211; Quantum GIS (QGIS) Tutorials &#8211; This site has links on how to do various operations in QGIS.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"QGIS Basics for Journalists\" href=\"http:\/\/multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu\/tutorials\/qgis-basics-journalists\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu\/tutorials\/qgis-basics-journalists\/<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0QGIS basics for journalists &#8211; Another good howto for using QGIS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition to these, don&#8217;t forget to use your favorite search engine to look for QGIS tutorials. \u00a0Youtube also has a lot of videos where you can watch, instead of read, how to use QGIS.<\/p>\n<p>Note:<\/p>\n<p>Ok, I admit it. \u00a0I did it this way because I&#8217;m feeling lazy since I&#8217;m sick and figure I would just point to other great tutorials so I can move on to importing data from various sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So in the last installment I mentioned that I would do another article on QGIS. \u00a0However, after looking, there is such a large amount of documentation out there that I felt that I would just put links to some good &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brian.digitalmaddox.com\/blog\/?p=133\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brian.digitalmaddox.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brian.digitalmaddox.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brian.digitalmaddox.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brian.digitalmaddox.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brian.digitalmaddox.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brian.digitalmaddox.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"https:\/\/brian.digitalmaddox.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brian.digitalmaddox.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brian.digitalmaddox.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brian.digitalmaddox.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}