{"id":510,"date":"2023-03-13T02:12:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T02:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.csusm.edu\/mmeyer\/?p=510"},"modified":"2023-03-13T02:20:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T02:20:20","slug":"qgis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.csusm.edu\/mmeyer\/2023\/03\/13\/qgis\/","title":{"rendered":"QGIS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Downloading on a Mac can always be tricky. I was worried it wouldn\u2019t work, seeing as my computer is a 2014 laptop with very little storage space, but I was pleasantly surprised with how quick the download and installation were. However, opening it was another story, as I had been warned\u2026<\/p>\n

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Once I had opened it, I used this video from Klaus Karlsson \u2013 QGIS 3 for Absolute Beginners<\/em><\/a> and Dr. Suzanna Krivulskaya\u2019s QGIS tutorial<\/em><\/a> to get started.<\/p>\n

I relaxed a bit once Karlsson said to type \u201cworld\u201d into the coordinate bar at the bottom of the screen. This made everything look a lot more like a map, which I think helped me a bit psychologically.<\/p>\n

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One thing I immediately learned was that, in order to delete anything in the \u201cLayers\u201d column, you needed to drag it over to your computer\u2019s trash bin. There is no in-application delete mechanism from what I saw, but I could be wrong about that.<\/p>\n

At about 12 minutes into the video tutorial, I got frustrated when we had to make an island. My vertexes wouldn\u2019t move the way he said they should with the vertex editor tool, and I ended up make a bunch more \u201cislands\u201d to try and see what would happen. I\u2019m still not sure what happened.<\/p>\n

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Alright, time to move on to the next tutorial. The Youtube video seems a little out of date, perhaps, and I was getting a little annoyed with the tools he was using being in different places from where my version had them.<\/p>\n

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I didn\u2019t have a problem adding the data, but I had some trouble overlaying the old map.<\/p>\n

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I tried this a few times, and nothing seemed to make it work. I liked QGIS, though, and I really wanted to learn how to better use the software, so I tried it with a smaller scale map (Doing such place-based research, I\u2019ve always wanted to do this but didn\u2019t know where to find the tech or how to use it!)<\/p>\n

I was able to get the image to overlay on the map when I used a map with square points (like a block map). I had a hard time scrolling around the big map because I don\u2019t have a mouse, only a track pad. Next time I use a more \u201cwiggly\u201d map (like the old US map) that is to be stretched out across a \u201creal\u201d map, I will be paying much<\/em> closer attention to where I put the points.<\/p>\n

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This worked for me, but I still have a lot of questions about the software. There\u2019s so much it can do that I\u2019m a little overwhelmed, and I still have so many questions. Like, with the ESRI, why are so many of the locations in the US under UTM (isn\u2019t that code for Mountain time zone?) and why does the map look like it\u2019s been spliced when you first select the area you want?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m excited to keep trying with QGIS, even if it was a little confusing. I want to learn how to set it up so the transparency of the older map layer so it appears on a sliding scale for the viewer, and figure out how to add all the other elements it seems like you can add!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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