Map Acedemy: get mapping quickly, with QGIS

Course overview: start here ✅

A few words about Udemy reviews ✅

A brief intro to GIS and QGIS ✅

Terminology: vector, raster and more ✅

A message about unzipping files (for anyone who needs it) ✅

Installation of QGIS (via qgis.org) ✅

Possible MacOS install issue – easy fix ✅

Time to open QGIS now! ✅

Know your way around QGIS – introduction ✅

A quick tour of QGIS ✅

Map colours and map navigation ✅

How to change map projections ✅

Saving QGIS projects ✅

QGIS on different operating systems ✅

Change the way QGIS looks ✅

Don’t forget the Help menu in QGIS ✅

The QGIS status bar ✅

The View options in QGIS ✅

How to identify features in QGIS ✅

A little reminder of the QGIS interface ✅

Let’s make a map – introduction ✅

Get the data and add it to QGIS ✅

Change the colour of layers in QGIS ✅

Take a look at the attribute table ✅

Create a basic world map ✅

Finalise and export our world map ✅

Make a country map with QGIS ✅

How to use the layer styling panel ✅

Use duplicate layers in QGIS ✅

Change the layer style in QGIS ✅

Data handling – introduction ✅

BAD DATA! ✅

Add a vector layer to QGIS ✅

Tips for when you add data to QGIS ✅

Add a raster layer to QGIS ✅

Map a csv file with latitude and longitude in it ✅

Add data via the QGIS browser ✅

So, um, what is a shapefile? ✅

? A little bit about map projections ? ✅

Getting used to attribute tables in QGIS ✅

Convert file formats in QGIS – easy! ✅

Quickly add a base map to QGIS (OpenStreetMap) ✅

The political nature of map data ✅

Filtering a layer in QGIS ✅

Join a spreadsheet to a map layer ✅

Help! Where can I find GIS data for my area? ✅

Find all the errors/things in the us-states-bad layer from the BAD DATA lecture ✅

Locator maps – introduction ✅

Let’s look at a locator map (just watch this one, we’ll add data in next video) ✅

Get the data, add it to QGIS ✅

Let’s filter our map layers ✅

Let’s style our locator map ✅

Labelling layers in QGIS ✅

Add title text to your map in QGIS ✅

Export your map from QGIS (png, jpg, pdf, any format!) ✅

A brief tour of the Print Layout – before the next video ✅

Print Layout locator map 1 (using ‘lock layers’) ✅

Print Layout locator map 2 (using a map theme) ✅

Edit your locator location! ✅

Where’s Buckingham Palace? A longer locator example ✅

Heat maps (mapping data values) – introduction

Let’s grab the data!

Add the data to QGIS now

Join data to your GIS layer

Apply a colour scheme to our map (let’s create a choropleth map!)

Manually adjust data classes in your map

Let’s add our map to a Print Layout

Add text to the Print Layout

How to add a map legend in QGIS

Exporting a Print Layout in QGIS

Some Print Layout design ideas

Some bonus font and text tips

Election maps (mapping categories) – introduction

A 2019 UK election geopackage

Let’s style the UK 2019 election map

Make an election map in the Print Layout

How to add a small inset map

Small multiple election maps

Let’s look at the 2020 US election

US 2020 election map styles

A US 2020 Print Layout

A proportional symbol election map

But which election map is right?!?

Density maps – introduction

London density data – yum yum!

Using the ‘Heatmap’ style in QGIS

Count points in polygons

Density – but by what measure? (e.g. per 10,000 people)

Tips for filtering messy data

Let’s look at grid square density

A simplified density map layout (a longer example)

London hotel density Print Layout

Fun map stuff – introduction

Types of polygon fill in QGIS

How to use a custom point marker

Flows and glows (global flights!)

Blend modes in QGIS (a little NZ example)

Weird bounding box maps

Map magic with geometry generators in QGIS (global spike map)

Colour lines using polygons (with overlay blend)

Spinning, growing sunglasses emoji face (yes, really)

Map projection weirdness (via the CRS button)

Glowing maps in QGIS

Well, that was fun – let’s start a new project