Workshop overview

This workshop will cover the creation of new geospatial data using the open source GIS package QGIS. Students will first learn how to georeference a scanned image into a GIS then digitize features of that scan into new vector feature layers.

Topics

• Setting up for successful georeferencing

• Extracting features from a scanned map

Zoom Meeting Room

Please be on time to the Zoom call. When prompted to log-in you will need to choose SSO using your Stanford.edu credentials to gain access to the Zoom call.

Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android:

Stanford Slack

#stanford-geospatial-center

QGIS Software

Please install the long term release only. Current version as of this writing is QGIS 3.16. We'll go over installation issues during the Zoom set up meeting, but if possible please install ahead of time.

• QGIS 3.16: https://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/download.html

Workshop Download

Download the workshop data here:

• QGIS Georeferencing Data

• Lab handout

Other resources

• QGIS documentation on Georeferencer Plugin

• QGIS documentation on Digitizing and Editing

• Tutorial on Digitizing