The Introduction to GIS with QGIS course, includes a practical introduction to GIS concepts. This course should adequately prepare trainees for the basic utilisation of QGIS Desktop in a production setting. Users will learn to use and interact with basic GIS data types and services, access and load data and produce basic maps on both platforms.

The training agenda is based mainly on the QGIS Training Manual with custom examples and has the following aims:

  1. assisting with migration from another GIS package
  2. an introduction to and a better understanding of GIS concepts
  3. an overview and practical experience of the core components of QGIS

The last session each day can be used to answer questions on particular issues that have been encountered during the course of the day.

Delivery: Online (Instructor-led)