Brown Bag lunch #S2E05: QGIS by Catherine Milova and Nungyao Lin (24 Novermber 2015)
The original version of this note can be found at: http://etherpad.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de:9001/p/BBL_20151124_QGIS
Notes for Brown-Bag DH workshop S2E05 (24.11.2015): QGIS map creation tool, by Catherine Milova and Nungyao Lin
Who's attending: Philipp Lehmann, Lino, Adrian, Ahmet, Shih-Pei, Dirk, Wilko, Francesca, Zoe, Marius
Part I: Hands-on with QGIS
by Cathy
Files to download for this lecture: please download the attachment and unzip it into a folder.
Outline of the hands-on:
- Importing data to create a map in QGIS
- A background map (for example, terrian, open street map, historical maps)
- A tabular data set (in a spreadsheet or in a csv)
- Adjusting the map
- Exporting a map from QGIS (via Print Composer)
Part II: Design a historical map: place names and layers
by Nungyao
The slides are at: https://goo.gl/14nM68
Outline:
- Your Research Data (Tabular format)
- Geocode Placenames / Address
- Geocode Template SpreadSheet: https://goo.gl/67qZFr
- Use Historical Layers in GIS (WebGIS & QGIS)
- Mpiwg-berlin GeoServer
- WMTS http://localgazetteers.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/ts/maps.xml
- WebGIS: http://localgazetteers.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/ts/index.html
- WebGIS-Palladio
- http://localgazetteers-test.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/palladio/apps/palladio
- http://palladio.designhumanities.org