Simple Maps with GIS

Presented at: THATCamp New England 2011
Date: October 23, 2011

I. Intro and Background

Discuss some of the many ways to create simple maps and introduce some very basic GIS concepts.

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Links:
maps.google.com
earth.google.com
education.nationalgeographic.com/education/mapping/interactive-map
geocommons.com
worldmap.harvard.edu
giscommons.org
kyngchaos.com/software/qgis
qgis.org/wiki/Download
nhgis.org
nationalmap.gov
geo.data.gov
data.geocomm.com
download.geofabrik.de/osm

II. Using QGIS

Goal: Create a simple map in QGIS, using data found on GeoCommons, add points to the map imported both from a KML file and using the CSV plug-in. Then make a few visual tweaks to the result before using the print composer to export the data.

Konrad M. Lawson