Chapter 4 Creating Maps in QGIS

Throughout this course you will use the same steps to create a map.

1. Prepare your data
2. Add your data to QGIS
3. Make sure your layer CRS values are correct, and choose a project CRS
4. Make your map look pretty
5. Use a Print Composer to export your map

We will introduce these steps not in the order listed above, but in order of difficulty (more or less). In Chapter 5 you will learn how to add data to the map, change the Project CRS, and use the Print Composer to export a map from QGIS; in Chapter 6 and Chapter ?? you will learn how to style vector layers; in Chapter 7 and Chapter 9 you will learn how to download freely available GIS data from the internet and prepare our own data to import to QGIS. In Chapter 10 you will practice these five steps by creating a minimalist study stue map, and in Chapters 11 and 12 you will learn how to create, edit, and process vector and raster layers.