This laboratory report discusses creating a municipal map of Isabela using QGIS. The student followed video tutorials on introduction to QGIS, symbology and labeling, and layer properties to create the map. The map displays the 31 municipalities of Isabela with different colors and labels, traces roads in black and rivers in blue. Through this activity, the student learned how to use QGIS to visualize geospatial data and create customized printed maps.
This laboratory report discusses creating a municipal map of Isabela using QGIS. The student followed video tutorials on introduction to QGIS, symbology and labeling, and layer properties to create the map. The map displays the 31 municipalities of Isabela with different colors and labels, traces roads in black and rivers in blue. Through this activity, the student learned how to use QGIS to visualize geospatial data and create customized printed maps.
This laboratory report discusses creating a municipal map of Isabela using QGIS. The student followed video tutorials on introduction to QGIS, symbology and labeling, and layer properties to create the map. The map displays the 31 municipalities of Isabela with different colors and labels, traces roads in black and rivers in blue. Through this activity, the student learned how to use QGIS to visualize geospatial data and create customized printed maps.
Introduction to QGIS in Creating Map 1. Introduction With the use of map, we can easily familiarize to the places around us and we can easily locate the places that we are looking for. So, it is important to use a more detailed map to help and guide us in exploring our amazing world. With a QGIS application (formerly Quantum GIS), we can open digital maps on our computer, create new spatial information to add to a map, create printed maps customized to our needs, perform spatial analysis, edit, visualize, analyze and publish geospatial information without cost. Understanding how to visualize map data is an important skill but it can be intimidating. Often one needs to create a map that can be printed or published. QGIS has a powerful tool called Print Composer that allows us to take our GIS layers and package them to create maps. A common function of GIS Applications is to display map layers. Map layers are stored as files on a disk or as records in a database. Normally each map layer will represent something in the real world - a roads layer for example will have data about the street network. Another common feature of GIS Applications is the map legend. The map legend provides a list of layers that have been loaded in the GIS Application. Unlike a paper map legend, the map legend or layers list in the GIS Application provides a way to re-order, hide, show and group layers. In this Laboratory Activity, we will make a Municipal Map of Isabela and should know more about Introduction to Quantum GIS, Quantum GIS Symbology and Labeling, and Quantum GIS Layer Properties. 2. Objectives At the end of the laboratory activity, the student aims to know more about Introduction to Quantum GIS, Quantum GIS Symbology and Labeling, Quantum GIS Layer Properties and to create a Municipal Map of Isabela. 3. Methodology To be able to know how to create a Municipal Map of Isabela, the student followed the video tutorials 1. Introduction to Quantum GIS, 2. Quantum GIS Symbology and Labeling and 3. Quantum GIS Layer Properties.
4. Results and Discussion
Figure 1. Municipal Map of Isabela
The Figure 1. shows the Municipal Map of Isabela. It has a total of 31 municipalities. Each area of municipality was assigned with different colors with labels. The roads are traced with black and the rivers was traced with blue. 5. Conclusion The student knows more about Introduction to Quantum GIS, Quantum GIS Symbology and Labeling, Quantum GIS Layer Properties and to create a Municipal Map of Isabela. Using this map, we can now easily explore all the municipalities of Isabela and travel to the places that we want access.
6. References Video Tutorials 1. Introduction to Quantum GIS 2. 2. Quantum GIS Symbology and Labeling 3. 3. Quantum GIS Layer Properties QGIS-2.0-UserGuide-en.pdf