Resources on Install and Training

QGIS Homeworld

1. Layers List / Browser Panel

2. Toolbars

3. Map canvas

4. Status bar

5. Side Toolbar

QGIS Interface

So let's add some basemaps!

Two ways (but could be more)

1. Adding plugins like OpenLayers

2. Using a python script for more maps

Adding Plugins

In the menu, select plugins, then

manage and install plugins

Adding Plugins

1. Click on settings

2. Make sure this is checked

Adding Plugins

1. Search for OpenLayers

2. Install plugin

Adding Plugins

1. Find the Installed Plugin

2.Choose a basemap!

Adding Plugins

Your basemap appears in the Layer Manager

A map!

Adding more basemaps using a python script

Adding more basemaps using a python script

1. Download the script

Should look like this

Adding more basemaps using a python script

Let's open up a python console to drop code in.

Adding more basemaps using a python script

1. Click the button labeled "Show Editor"

2. Click "Open" to load the python script

Adding more basemaps using a python script

1. Open the XYZ Tiles to show the list and select one

Resources

• For spatial data
  • geohub.lacity.org
  • LA County GIS Data Portal
• For spatial and other open data
  • data.lacity.org
  • data.lacounty.gov
• For data and the stories made from them
  • www.lacounts.org

What can we map?

www.empowerla.org

So let's make a map

Showing city-owned properties in neighborhood councils

geohub.lacity.org

Datasets we need

1. Neighborhood Council Boundaries
2. LACITY owned-properties