QGIS Intermediate Training Course

Intermediate / Specific Skills Sessions (max 30 people per course)

NB Sessions will only run if three or more people are attending

Session 1- File Management

Thu Mar 24^th, 1000-1115

This session will cover a topic that underpins all the work you undertake in QGIS. You will learn how to set-up a QGIS project and create a suitable file format on your device to create and store projects and layers. Good file management in QGIS is simple but important in ensuring your work is accurate.

Session 2- How to create a management map

Wed Mar 30, 1000-1200

This tutorial will contain mapping advice for all those who wish to create maps of management for contractors, websites or reports, in a neat format which can be exported as a PDF or JPEG. You will work through an example of creating a management map for a reserve, learning how to set up and digitise polygons in a layer, and how to stylise a suitable map to share with others.

Session 3- Basic atlas mapping

Thu Mar 31, 1000-1200

This session will cover basic atlas mapping using the Biological Records tool within the FSC TomBio plugin. You will learn how to import data from Excel into QGIS, make single species atlas maps, and create summary maps for record density, species richness and abundance.

Session 4- Atlas mapping

Wed Apr 13, 1000-1200

This session will cover batch atlas mapping using the Biological Records tool within the FSC TomBio plugin. You will learn how to create batch (multi-species) butterfly atlas maps using species data, with a smallish dataset of <100,000 records. We recommend you attend skills session 3 prior to attending this session.

Session 5- Spatial Queries

Thu Apr 14, 1000-1200

This session will cover a key skill in QGIS, spatial queries. A spatial query is the extraction of data from one layer based on the extent of data from another. You will learn how to make selections, for example, selecting all the butterfly/moths records that fall within a particular SSSI or NNR boundary.

Session 6- Table and Spatial Joins

Wed Apr 20, 1000-1200

Being able to join data from a spreadsheet to an existing map layer is a powerful feature of QGIS and is known as a table join. A spatial join is the ability to add data from the attribute table of one layer to another based on its location. You will learn how to add information such as VC name and SSSI name to species records using a spatial join, and add spreadsheet data to mapped sites using a table join.

Session 7- Summarising Data

Thu Apr 21, 1000-1200

Summarising data helps you to analyse large datasets to create summary statistics, for example, summarising species records by vice county. You will learn how to summarise attribute data in QGIS using the Group Stats plugin and Statistics by Category tool.