I have viewed many "how to" videos on youtube. Yours are the best I have ever seen. They are straight to the point in easy to understand language with visual allowances for time to catch up to the video. Excellent!!! Keep 'em coming!
Thank you for a good tutorial...been attending a GIS class for 5weeks now and haven't gotten anything about what GIS is and what it does. This tutorial makes it so much easier to use the tools and hazard a gas of what GIS is...
This video was exceptionally helpful in learning QGIS for the first time. You answered all the questions I had that arose while watching the video. The video is comprehensive for first-time users of QGIS. Thank you for making this.
Klas, your ability to teach QGIS in the right way is great. You really seem to get where beginners will fumble and make mistakes. Really a great tutorial.
Great video! I was looking for tutorials to help people who know next to nothing about how to use QGIS, but most either cover intermediate users or are not so easy to follow. Thanks for this superb introduction video, Klas!
I forgot a lot of things since I studied some GIS during my Bachelor. Thanks to this video I remembered many basic steps. Targeted and easy to understand - thank you!
Pew, I spent all afternoon with this 30 min video due to all the pausing but I got my own treasure island in the end - thanks a lot! First time ever with QGIS and it worked!
congratulations on an excellent tutorial. I have had a six month break from GIS work and have taken the step to learn QGIS upon resuming work for myself. I am very pleasantly surprised at the functionality and am now wondering why I had not made the change a long time ago. I went through this video methodically and it was extremely helpful. Thanks again.
Thank you so very, very much. Genealogists/historians new to QGIS often need to show the villages/towns/cities our ancestors once lived. That requires importing coordinates, labeling, showing terrain, making the map look old, etc. Didn't see that your intro included that information.
The "pause now to catch up" note was perfect. I feel a little embarrassed that I needed it to be an active learner. One way to improve this video would be to add a table of contents to the description. This would make it more browsable.
00:00 - Introduction 00:33 - Download and install QGIS 02:59 - Interface walkthrough 04:50 - Install a plugin: OpenLayers Plugin 05:17 - Add a background map 05:25 - Navigate a map 06:59 - Manage layers. Add a polygon layer 07:44 - Add an attribute to a vector layer 08:18 - Add a polygon to a polygon layer 09:26 - Edit vertices of a polygon 09:58 - Save a layer (to disk) 11:10 - Create a shapefile 12:00 - Add points and a linestring 13:13 - Style a layer (color, marker type, ...) 16:45 - Duplicate and invert a polygon layer ...
Thanks for the video, I have a job interview in a few days for an assistant site surveyor position for my city's water company. I work as a solar site surveyor for a residential solar company and we actually don't use GIS. Just CAD and google sunroof. The recruiter gave me a heads up of what the interviewers are going to ask me about and one of them is if I'm familiar with GIS.
Thank you for your tutorial! I'm trying to understand what makes QGIS unique and powerful. If was to take a screenshot of Bornholm Island from Google Maps, I could load that picture into any graphics program (Adobe Photoshop/Illstrator, Affinity Designer/Photo, maybe even Microsoft Paint) and make a similar image to the one you've created. But QGIS can't just be simply an image editing program just like the others!
Thank you so much for taking time to slowly show us what to do. Am an expert now🙌. Please tell me how to add title to my finished new print composer. I have added the scale and key. But I can't seem to find the title
great beginners lesson and thank you, but please when explaining a program by video try to put you cursor directly on where you intend on clicking and not move around (i sound grumpy, i apologise)
It is crazy how projection changes whether you pulled base data first or shapefiles first. Do you assign coordinate systems when saving shapefiles? My first tutorial on QGIS, great video!
This is a very important aspect of GIS files. If I can I usually assign a new layer a projection, when I create the file. But you can always set the file projection when you save it. Projected, or un-projected coordinate systems matter a great deal in QGIS. And as I've mentioned in other videos (th-cam.com/video/0vKNo23i8KI/w-d-xo.html) the projection doesn't change just because you change the definition. This is a common misunderstanding if you are new to GIS. I'm not sure if this answers your question, but anyway... Thanks!
excellent well done, considering how long it is, you cut out the junk and the pace is good. Odd music playing very low in the background? Will watch others to figure out finally how to map MTB trails.
OpenLayers plugin is "dead"! (Still in the experimental section) Use XYZ tiles instead: th-cam.com/video/M-WfXHbGOlw/w-d-xo.html Or the QuickMapServices plug-in.
iamgoddard QuickMapServices, openlayers was N/A. I see the map options under the Web DDT, but the maps do not appear. I also downloaded map sph files and tried to add a vector layer, those maps do not appear either. Any idea?
Great video. I am just meeting QGIS for the first time and the current version is 3.0.2. I need to do minimum bounding - convex hull on points to determine area (home range of turtle movements over spatial scale). I found great videos explaining how easy this is in previous versions but it appears 3.0.2 does not have this feature. Is it coming? Is it possible to install a previous version of QGIS so I can have access to these tools. It looks like it was incredibly simple from the menu options. Any thoughts?? Thanks for the tutorial - it was a great start.
Hi! Do you know anywhere that there is a "pre-beginners" tutorial? Maybe not so much QGIS, but with GIS software in general. For instance, in the tutorial we starting adding "vertices" to the polygon. Now I know how to add a vertice, but I never knew what a vertice was, and I still don't know!! Thanks!
Sir,your tutorial was really helpful.we are doing a project on landuse survey in Qgis software.How can i get the total area of agricultural land in the given satellite image.please help me to find the agricultural land in the given input satellite image
To calculate area in QGIS 2.xx you need to have your polygons in a projected coordinate system with units that makes sense, like UTM. Then your $area command in the field calculator will give you the area based on that unit of measurement. th-cam.com/video/TKSu9Dg1wHQ/w-d-xo.html
Sir...I need your help,um just facing a problem in creating a new shapefile layer in qgis..like it's coming" layer creation failed.Please check the message log for further information"n on checking message i'm just getting a blank space with warning written so what is the solution n why it is happening?why the software is not creating a new file
Thank you for this great-so-far video. However i am having a problem when it comes to editing lines(13:00~). The button for toggling edit on/off is greyed out. What do i do?
When I try to create a line or polygon, I can't complete it. Video says to to right-click, but when I do that, the line or polygon disappears and no dialogue comes up. Any ideas on what's wrong? Thanks.
First time with QGIS and these videos are lifesaving! Just one question about this video though: when I try to work on the label of the island or the ocean, I cannot find the labels and it shows just a "0". On the list of lables it shows just "123 FID", no island or not ocean. What am I doing wrong? Thank you :)
Assuming you created the "name" field for the layer (7:20) and filled in "Treasure Island" in the attribute table, you should get a label output on your island when selecting "Show labels for this layer" and "Name" in the "Label with" drop-down. If you have "123 FID" it means you have selected the automatically created "Feature ID" or "FID" field in the "Label with" drop-down (18:45). The Ocean layer is an inverted polygon and can't be labeled the same way.
While I was trying to edit the point layer for beach, I found that I could not change the letter A to B even after when the font marker was selected . There is no alphabet (letters) to choose among the other symbols in the selection box compared to what is shown on the screen when you are doing it.
hii Klas Karlsson, very detailed video of instruction. i would need the map software to plot out the path of road that i just made when i have jogged. any idea how to achieve it ? these are all manual plotting. for example, i am jogging this part of park today, and i am going to plot all the road into the map. then tomorrow i will jog new path inside the park so i am able to jog all the path available in a park .. or a town for that matter. then i will add in the path manually after the jogging. and this repeats until the whole road and path being jogged by me. do you have a video of instruction how to achieve that ? your help is very much appreciated. thanks andrew
I don't have a specific video for exactly what you want, but it shouldn't be any problem to accomplish what so ever. You can create a "jogging" vector line layer in any vector format, just as I do in this video. When you want to add a new road you don't have to create a new layer, just enter "edit mode" for the present layer and add a new feature to it in the same way. Each new feature will become a separate object in the layer table that you can give unique attribute values. Don't forget to save your edits, and close the "edit session" when you are done. Hope this answers your question.
As a genealogist, I am creating maps for oral histories and family genealogies. Ease of use is my number one criteria. Previously I used ESRI BusinessMap, which has very limited global mapping flexibility. Should I learn QGIS or ArcGIS?
Jenny Shangraw We'll, GIS is never considered easy. You could ask around in genealogy circuits what they use. Anyway, QGIS is a great free GIS at least on par with ArcGIS in most applications. I suggest you start with QGIS and see how it works out.
My Mom's ancestor's (Koch) emigrated from Hesse and Westphalia, Germany to Michigan in 1830s. Doing them proud with all my mapping. Is there a SIMPLE QGIS tutorial for my needs?
Hi Klas, thank you very much for teaching how to use QGIS. I have a question; can you remove "layers" from OpenStreetMap, let say for example national parks and name of small towns?
I have viewed many "how to" videos on youtube. Yours are the best I have ever seen. They are straight to the point in easy to understand language with visual allowances for time to catch up to the video. Excellent!!! Keep 'em coming!
Thank you for a good tutorial...been attending a GIS class for 5weeks now and haven't gotten anything about what GIS is and what it does. This tutorial makes it so much easier to use the tools and hazard a gas of what GIS is...
This video was exceptionally helpful in learning QGIS for the first time. You answered all the questions I had that arose while watching the video. The video is comprehensive for first-time users of QGIS. Thank you for making this.
Klas, your ability to teach QGIS in the right way is great. You really seem to get where beginners will fumble and make mistakes. Really a great tutorial.
Great video! I was looking for tutorials to help people who know next to nothing about how to use QGIS, but most either cover intermediate users or are not so easy to follow. Thanks for this superb introduction video, Klas!
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I forgot a lot of things since I studied some GIS during my Bachelor. Thanks to this video I remembered many basic steps. Targeted and easy to understand - thank you!
Pew, I spent all afternoon with this 30 min video due to all the pausing but I got my own treasure island in the end - thanks a lot! First time ever with QGIS and it worked!
:)
This is extremely helpful and easy to follow. Thanks for the intro - I'm excited to keep learning more GIS.
congratulations on an excellent tutorial. I have had a six month break from GIS work and have taken the step to learn QGIS upon resuming work for myself. I am very pleasantly surprised at the functionality and am now wondering why I had not made the change a long time ago. I went through this video methodically and it was extremely helpful. Thanks again.
Thanks!
Thank you Klas, always nice to have a refresher, especially after not using QGIS for a few years!
Beautifully guided to start QGIS.
You have such a good cadence. So easy to follow and well taught.
had a huge headache trying to get the hang of it till the video thanks
Please create a QGIS 3 for Beginners. Your tutorials are the BEST for beginners like me!
It is on its way, but I want to let QGIS 3 settle some in stability and feature functions, so probably not until the summer (2018).
Thank you so very, very much. Genealogists/historians new to QGIS often need to show the villages/towns/cities our ancestors once lived. That requires importing coordinates, labeling, showing terrain, making the map look old, etc. Didn't see that your intro included that information.
Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!!! I was totally lost and stymied until I found this tutorial! Now I'm making progress!
Awesome Mr Karlsson. Keep up the great work. Highly appreciated.
wow this is super, this video is great.....no words. great Job, thank you very much. I have been looking for such videos...finally got it.
Thank you very good intro! It really helped me understand the logic of QGIS. Will be watching the rest.
Excelent KK I've seen the video several times and I learned and familiraized with many functions, thanks KK keep going.
The "pause now to catch up" note was perfect. I feel a little embarrassed that I needed it to be an active learner.
One way to improve this video would be to add a table of contents to the description. This would make it more browsable.
00:00 - Introduction
00:33 - Download and install QGIS
02:59 - Interface walkthrough
04:50 - Install a plugin: OpenLayers Plugin
05:17 - Add a background map
05:25 - Navigate a map
06:59 - Manage layers. Add a polygon layer
07:44 - Add an attribute to a vector layer
08:18 - Add a polygon to a polygon layer
09:26 - Edit vertices of a polygon
09:58 - Save a layer (to disk)
11:10 - Create a shapefile
12:00 - Add points and a linestring
13:13 - Style a layer (color, marker type, ...)
16:45 - Duplicate and invert a polygon layer
...
Thanks for the video! Extremely instructive and goes directly to the point!
Thanks a bunch. Excellent introduction.
Thank you so much by this video, it's very useful and easy understand for beginner working on QGIS.
Thanks for the video, I have a job interview in a few days for an assistant site surveyor position for my city's water company. I work as a solar site surveyor for a residential solar company and we actually don't use GIS. Just CAD and google sunroof. The recruiter gave me a heads up of what the interviewers are going to ask me about and one of them is if I'm familiar with GIS.
One of the best tutorials! thank you very much for this, helped a lot!
It is a good step by step tutorial. Thank you very much
Thank you Klas for this awesome tutorial! Well done!
Wow... finally I found some really good tutorial. Thanks man
It's pretty helpful,thank you so much for the efforts Klas
Best QGIS tutorial ever!
this is the best tutorial about qgis on youtube. ^^ like (y)
Great video!!! Got an idea to use QGIS for my research. Thank you very much
Thank you for this great tutorial. Was very helpful.
Great initiative, man! Congrats.
Thanks for this excellent tutorial!
Thank you for your tutorial! I'm trying to understand what makes QGIS unique and powerful. If was to take a screenshot of Bornholm Island from Google Maps, I could load that picture into any graphics program (Adobe Photoshop/Illstrator, Affinity Designer/Photo, maybe even Microsoft Paint) and make a similar image to the one you've created. But QGIS can't just be simply an image editing program just like the others!
Excellent video. Thank You
REALLY! it is a very great tutorial. I would to thank you!
You are the man!! Awesome video
Thank you so much, this was very helpful!
This was an amazing video, thank you so much! I just spent several hours making fake treasure maps...
Hi, that was a wonderful Tutorial and how to insert North Arrow
Thank you so much for this video!
very helpful, please upload more videos
this is freaking awesome dude!
Thank you so much for taking time to slowly show us what to do. Am an expert now🙌. Please tell me how to add title to my finished new print composer. I have added the scale and key. But I can't seem to find the title
Hey man this is great effort!
Thanks!
Thanks very much. Very clear.
great beginners lesson and thank you, but please when explaining a program by video try to put you cursor directly on where you intend on clicking and not move around (i sound grumpy, i apologise)
Thank you for visiting Bornholm
Great thank you for your contribution!!
Thank you for this tutorial !
great video!! thank you Klas
Great video, this has helped immensely. I ended up using Iraq...not ideal for treasure hunting.
thanku so much si rfor such types of fantastics lecture love u@ plzz upload the more video @again thanku so much
thank you sir ..it really helped me a lot...
I see what you meant about the mouse glitch. Thanks a heap tho, great help.
a really useful video, thanks!
is it possible to add some points using their coordinates (latitude and longitude)?
It is crazy how projection changes whether you pulled base data first or shapefiles first. Do you assign coordinate systems when saving shapefiles?
My first tutorial on QGIS, great video!
This is a very important aspect of GIS files. If I can I usually assign a new layer a projection, when I create the file. But you can always set the file projection when you save it. Projected, or un-projected coordinate systems matter a great deal in QGIS. And as I've mentioned in other videos (th-cam.com/video/0vKNo23i8KI/w-d-xo.html) the projection doesn't change just because you change the definition. This is a common misunderstanding if you are new to GIS.
I'm not sure if this answers your question, but anyway... Thanks!
excellent well done, considering how long it is, you cut out the junk and the pace is good. Odd music playing very low in the background? Will watch others to figure out finally how to map MTB trails.
Thank you for the fast reply sir.How should we insert an input satellite image given to us in Qgis .
Thanks, please do more :D
Wish you had a tutorial for the QGIS 2.18.28😊😊
Maestro!
Hi Openlayers doesn't work now so install plugin - quickmapservices
great video,i have watched and this one has proved to be the best. is it possible to download it for future reference?
stella wanjiku Sure! The license is CC BY.
Well done.
somehow i can't find the open layers plugin (at 4:56) It's not showing up on the list of available plugins
OpenLayers plugin is "dead"! (Still in the experimental section)
Use XYZ tiles instead: th-cam.com/video/M-WfXHbGOlw/w-d-xo.html
Or the QuickMapServices plug-in.
@@KlasKarlsson The maps did not load for me after installing the plug-in. Any ideas?
iamgoddard QuickMapServices, openlayers was N/A. I see the map options under the Web DDT, but the maps do not appear.
I also downloaded map sph files and tried to add a vector layer, those maps do not appear either. Any idea?
There no option for me under WEB after installing Openlayers. What should I do?
very good thank you
Excellent video! However, I find the music quite annoying...
Good effect....thank you....
Thank you very much!!!!
Great video. I am just meeting QGIS for the first time and the current version is 3.0.2. I need to do minimum bounding - convex hull on points to determine area (home range of turtle movements over spatial scale). I found great videos explaining how easy this is in previous versions but it appears 3.0.2 does not have this feature. Is it coming? Is it possible to install a previous version of QGIS so I can have access to these tools. It looks like it was incredibly simple from the menu options. Any thoughts?? Thanks for the tutorial - it was a great start.
Just press Ctrl + K and type "convex". This should give you at least some options to choose from to do what you want.
thank you
Hi! Do you know anywhere that there is a "pre-beginners" tutorial? Maybe not so much QGIS, but with GIS software in general. For instance, in the tutorial we starting adding "vertices" to the polygon. Now I know how to add a vertice, but I never knew what a vertice was, and I still don't know!! Thanks!
Hi Bucky, I'm sure there are many good resources about GIS and mapping terminology. Good luck.
Thank you!
thank you soooooooooooooooo much its great
Sir,your tutorial was really helpful.we are doing a project on landuse survey in Qgis software.How can i get the total area of agricultural land in the given satellite image.please help me to find the agricultural land in the given input satellite image
To calculate area in QGIS 2.xx you need to have your polygons in a projected coordinate system with units that makes sense, like UTM. Then your $area command in the field calculator will give you the area based on that unit of measurement. th-cam.com/video/TKSu9Dg1wHQ/w-d-xo.html
Sir...I need your help,um just facing a problem in creating a new shapefile layer in qgis..like it's coming" layer creation failed.Please check the message log for further information"n on checking message i'm just getting a blank space with warning written so what is the solution n why it is happening?why the software is not creating a new file
Thank you sooo much
A good video that does require concentration, how do I add Open Layers plugin to the directory?
Thank you for this great-so-far video. However i am having a problem when it comes to editing lines(13:00~). The button for toggling edit on/off is greyed out. What do i do?
sekaloogo Weird! Creating and editing lines shouldn't be any different from polygons.
Thanks man! ! ! ;)
I have no idea what this is, just saw my home on the thump nail (Bornholm)
thank you sir for the reply.Do u have any videos of identifying the agricultural land in the given input image
Nope! You should search for the "semi automatic classification plugin".
When I try to create a line or polygon, I can't complete it. Video says to to right-click, but when I do that, the line or polygon disappears and no dialogue comes up. Any ideas on what's wrong? Thanks.
Tack Klas!
Is there a similar way but you crop the island and have it separate, it would be cool to use that to focus on county or city.
ZNAWflash You could use the polygon to "mask" the surroundings with a white inverted polygon fill.
First time with QGIS and these videos are lifesaving! Just one question about this video though: when I try to work on the label of the island or the ocean, I cannot find the labels and it shows just a "0". On the list of lables it shows just "123 FID", no island or not ocean. What am I doing wrong?
Thank you :)
Assuming you created the "name" field for the layer (7:20) and filled in "Treasure Island" in the attribute table, you should get a label output on your island when selecting "Show labels for this layer" and "Name" in the "Label with" drop-down.
If you have "123 FID" it means you have selected the automatically created "Feature ID" or "FID" field in the "Label with" drop-down (18:45).
The Ocean layer is an inverted polygon and can't be labeled the same way.
Got it! Thank you so much again!
While I was trying to edit the point layer for beach, I found that I could not change the letter A to B even after when the font marker was selected . There is no alphabet (letters) to choose among the other symbols in the selection box compared to what is shown on the screen when you are doing it.
No bother, thank you for the useful video.
Can u make a video how to do georeferncing for cadastral map
Thanks!
How did you get the text "treasure island" on your map? When I click show labels nothing appears. How can I write text on my map?
Thank You!!!!!!!
hii Klas Karlsson,
very detailed video of instruction.
i would need the map software to plot out the path of road that i just made when i have jogged. any idea how to achieve it ?
these are all manual plotting.
for example, i am jogging this part of park today, and i am going to plot all the road into the map.
then tomorrow i will jog new path inside the park so i am able to jog all the path available in a park .. or a town for that matter.
then i will add in the path manually after the jogging. and this repeats until the whole road and path being jogged by me.
do you have a video of instruction how to achieve that ?
your help is very much appreciated.
thanks
andrew
I don't have a specific video for exactly what you want, but it shouldn't be any problem to accomplish what so ever.
You can create a "jogging" vector line layer in any vector format, just as I do in this video. When you want to add a new road you don't have to create a new layer, just enter "edit mode" for the present layer and add a new feature to it in the same way. Each new feature will become a separate object in the layer table that you can give unique attribute values.
Don't forget to save your edits, and close the "edit session" when you are done.
Hope this answers your question.
As a genealogist, I am creating maps for oral histories and family genealogies. Ease of use is my number one criteria. Previously I used ESRI BusinessMap, which has very limited global mapping flexibility. Should I learn QGIS or ArcGIS?
Jenny Shangraw We'll, GIS is never considered easy. You could ask around in genealogy circuits what they use. Anyway, QGIS is a great free GIS at least on par with ArcGIS in most applications. I suggest you start with QGIS and see how it works out.
My Mom's ancestor's (Koch) emigrated from Hesse and Westphalia, Germany to Michigan in 1830s. Doing them proud with all my mapping. Is there a SIMPLE QGIS tutorial for my needs?
Hi Klas, excellent tutorial..however i m not able to get the open layers plug in install part is not coming up..
If you have problem with the Open Layers plug-in, you can try the QuickMapServices plug-in instead.
Hi Klas, thank you very much for teaching how to use QGIS. I have a question; can you remove "layers" from OpenStreetMap, let say for example national parks and name of small towns?
Not from the service! You can download osm data and select what layers you want to style and view.
One source for osm data is: download.geofabrik.de/
Thank you very much! I will try.
Hello,
Thank you for this video. I am having trouble with de OpenStreetMap > OCM Landspace. The maps shows "API Key Required". What is this?
nice one.