QGIS Training 1

Geographic
Information
S y s t e m QGIS
Introduction(1)
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Agenda
W h a t ’s Q G I S ?
1st Basic usage
Basic data management
Spatial data handling

2nd Spatial Anal ysis
Geocor ding
Cr e a t e Ve c t o r d a t a
3rd About coordinate system
Cr e a t e KML d a t a
U t i l i z e OSM d a t a
Contents Today
1st session
1What’s QGIS?
2 Basic usage
3Basic data management
4 Map design
Homework

What’s Quantum GIS (QGIS)?
• One of open source GIS software named FOSS4G

(Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial)
• a user friendly GUI
• Multi-platform（Win, Mac OS X,Linux）
• Multi-language
• Rich functions for a function enhancement

What QGIS can do?
Display GIS
data Create and edit
(overlay,thematic GIS data
map...)
Select / Join data GIS data analysis

Basic usage

2.1 Launch QGIS
• Double click the QGIS shortcut

icon on desktop
• The window will open.

QGIS window will open like below.

toolbar
menu
topmenu
Layer map view
map info / settings

Install Plugin
• Choose “Fetch Python Plugins...” from “Plugins”on the top menu and
search “Table Manager” from Filter form in “Plugins”tab.
• “Table Manager” is a database management tool.
• Choose and install “Table Manager”.
• When installing plugin, internet environment is necessary.

Plugin Management
• Choose “Manage Plugins...” from“Plugins” on the top menu and

click the “Add Delimited Text Layer”.
• “Add Delimited Text Layer” function is used for importing CSV format data.
• Checked function will be visible on the main menu and able to be used.
“Add Delimited Text

Layer” will be visible.
2.2 Add data
GIS data can be devided into 2 types..
• Raster type ex) JPEG,PNG,TIFF
• Vector type ex) Shape file(.shp)
For instance, imagine a river and bridge,
Raster type Vector type

aggregate of colored line data connecting
dots starting points and
end points

Exercise data
tokyo23
lecture1_data
homework1

About Shape file
• Vector type data mostly used in the world.

• Available in most GIS softwares.
• “Shape file” format is composed of more than 3 files as follows.
*.shp (geometry type and geographical coordinates)

*.dbf (attributes of features such as name and figure)
Shape file
*.shx (relationship between shp and dbf)
These files must be
*.prj (the coordinate system and projection info) put in same folder.
same file name

*.shp *.shx *.dbf
DDD
NAME AREA PERIMETER
AAA 0 AAA 18352 644
1 BBB 22496 756
CCC 2 CCC 22050 602
3 DDD 7548 352
4 EEE NA NA
BBB 5 FFF NA NA
<Feature type>
Point Data ex) amedas data, shop data
Line Data ex) road data, railway data, river data
Polygon Data ex) city shape, building data

Add “ku.shp” in “tokyo23” folder.
1) Click “Add vector layer”
2) Browse file
3) Open

※ Caution ※
• Japanese GIS data by Government such as National Land

Numerical Information and census data tend to be recorded in
Shift-JIS. If you use Mac OS or Unix, Check that the encoding is
Shift-JIS before adding the data.
• Shift-JIS can be converted to UTF-8 later.

Tokyo special districts are displayed.

Display a feature
1) Click “Identify Feature”
2) Click a feature

Shibuya info can be shown in a new window.

2.3 Save a project
1) Click “Save Project”

(Ctrl + S or Command + S）
2) You can save it any name in any folder.
3) save a project as “.qgs” type

Exercise 1
Add following data in the folder“tokyo23”.

subway.shp (Line data: a subway in Tokyo Special district)
station.shp (Point data: a station in Tokyo Special district)
convenience.shp (Point data: a convenience store in Tokyo
Special district)
elevation.shp (Polygon data: an terrain data inTokyo special

district)

Hint
You can select plural files while pushing

Ctrl key ( or Command key).

Answer

2.4 Change an order of each layer
Front
Back
The order of layer on TOC can be

altered by drag and drop.

A layer can be hidden without checking a check
box of layer.
Only subway and station layer

can be seen on map view.

Delete a layer
Delete other than “ku” layer.
# This function doesn’t delete a file

itself in the file directories.

Basic data management

What’s an “attr ibute”?
“Attribute” means an property of each feature such as a name and an
area. In case a shape file is used, the attribute is saved into a dbf file and
can be edited.
attribute table
生協購買 NAME AREA PERIMETER
A棟 0 A棟 18352 644
1 B棟 22496 756
中庭 2 中庭 22050 602
・
ポスト 3 生協購買 7548 352
4 ポスト NA NA
B棟 5 道路 NA NA
The feature“0” has a name of “A building” and an area of

18,352 square meters, perimeter of 644 meters.
Op en A ttribute table
See an attribute table of “ku”layer.
• Add “ku.shp” on layer and open its attribute table.
field
Each line
links to
Click “ku” layer on the right vecoter on
map.
mouse and choose “Open
AttributeTable”.

If you choose a line from attributes, the Choose “Select Single
Feature” and click a map
linked map feature also be chosen. feature on map view.
If you choose a map feature on map view,

the linked line also be chosen in the similar
way.
click a line number which

you’d like to choose.

Select layer by attr ibute
Select a city which has more than 20 km2 in area from attribute table.
About fields
• KU : cityid
• NAME : city name
• PERIMETER [ m]
• AREA [m2]
1) Click “Advanced Search”.

Input a condition expression on “SQL where clause”.
If you click, item will be

added to “SQL where
clause”.
Input “AREA >= 20,000,000”

( m2 -> km2 )
“Test” show you whether the condition expression is

correct or not, and the number of matched features
12 cities are selected.
Deselect

Select features under plur al conditions
AND and OR enable to select features under plur al conditions.
c a s e 1 : ku which has more than 10 km 2 and less than 20km 2 in area
AREA > = 10000000 AND AREA < 20000000

c a s e 2 : ku which has less than 10 km 2 or more than 20 km 2
AREA < 10000000 OR AREA > = 20000000
Also, NOT is useful when you’d like to select features under

opposite conditions.
c a s e 3 : ku which doesn’ t have not less than 20 km 2
NOT AREA < 20000000

E xercis e 2
1) Select city features which has more than 50km in “PERIMETER” and
doesn’t have less than 50km2 in“AREA”
2) Save the selected features as “large_wards.shp” in“tokyo23” folder.
3) Open “large_wards.shp” in QGIS

Answer
PERIMETER >= 50000 AND NOT AREA <50000000

Join table
“Join table” is to combine different table based on a key field in
common.
This function is very useful when you combine GIS data with others or
external data such as csv and dbf data.
name,area name,population
NAME AREA PREF POP
0 Hokkaido 83456.38 0 Hokkaido 5506419
1 Aomori 8918.45 1 Aomori 1373339
2 Iwate 15278.85 2 Iwate 1330147
NAME AREA PREF POP

0 Hokkaido 83456.38 Hokkaido 5506419 add pop field into the target
table based on the
1 Aomori 8918.45 Aomori 1373339
prefecture name.
2 Iwate 15278.85 Iwate 1330147

Load“ku_pop.csv” in“tokyo23” into QGIS.
“Layer” > “add vector” > import csv
The column “pop” has population data in Tokyo in2010.

CSV data has been added.

Join population data in Tokyo special districts into “ku” layer.
Choose a “join” tab above menu of the layer property“ku” layer
shp csv
csv layer
Use city name as a key field

“ku_pop” layer is joined to “ku” layer.
You can join / unjoin other data more.

“ku_pop” attr ibutes has been joined.
Attributes of“ku” Attributes of “ku_pop”

Save the joined layer as “ku_pop.shp” in“tokyo23”.
Decide where one

wants to save the files.

Open “ku_pop.shp” and check that the attribute table is joined one or not.

Calculate fie ld
“Calculate field” enable to handle field values at once.

Calculate a population density in each area using “pop” and “AREA”fields
in the attribute of “ku”.
Population density = Population / Area [pop / km2]

Tog g le e dit mode
Toggle edit mode before

calculate field.

Calculate field
“pop” field is loaded

as string. the field in
CSV are all regarded
as string.
Caution:
“calculate field can’t
be conducted
when string and
figure data coexist
together.
Click “calculate field”.

Fill as above
to int ( ) = ( ) 内のフィールド値を整数に変換

Joined!!

Map Design

Exercise 1
Add following data in the folder“tokyo23”.

subway.shp (Line data: a subway in Tokyo Special district)
station.shp (Point data: a station in Tokyo Special district)
convenience.shp (Point data: a convenience store in Tokyo
Special district)
elevation.shp (Polygon data: an terrain data inTokyo special

district)

Change point styles
Click “Property” on the right mouse

button station(or double click the layer).

Open the window “layer proper ty” and
choose “style” tab.

“Symbol proper ties” window will open.
1) Change symbol layer type to “SVG mar ker”
2) Choose a mar k of “tr ain” from the image list.

The station symbol has changed.

Change polygon styles
Uncheck the check box other than

“elevation” layer and open its
properties(or double click the layer).

Change a color of “elevation layer”
according to elevation value .
Gener ally, higher area color s

war m color(ex.red,yellow).
Lower area color s cold
color(ex. blue ,green).
Low High

1) Choose“Graduated”. 2) Choose a column “ELEV” which has elevation value.
4) Choose a number
of classed and a
classification mode.
3) Choose any color ramp. An

original color ramp can be made.
If you’d like to arrange your way, just click
“Symbol color”,“Range” and“Label”.
5) Finally, click “Classify”.Then the classification

result will be displayed above.

Result

Change p ar tia l symb ol styles
show different markers depending on attributes.

1) Choose “Graduated”.
2) Choose and double click a rule row

which you’d like to change.Then the rule
property will open.
(Default setting has no rule)

A filter rule can be input from
“Expression string builder”.
3)Input any name in “Label” form.

Click“...” next to“Filter” form.
5) Marker type can be chosen

as mentioned before.
4) Input “CNAME LIKE ‘Circle%’on

“Expression” form.
(or “CNAME =“circleK”)
‘LIKE’ : partial matching

‘=‘ : perfect matching
Existing rule has been edited.
If you’d like to add an another rule or delete

Only “CircleK” has been displayed.

Display a label
1) Choose “Label” tab from tab menu in Properties“ku”
2) check the checkbox

of “Display labels”.
3) Choose“NAME” in“Field
containing label” form.

The name of “ku” has bee n displayed as a
label on the polygon data.

E xercis e 2
1) Delete the label“ku”.

2) Add pop.shp(population on street scale).
3) Classify poplation in 1995(“P1995”) into 4 categories as follows.
class 1 : 0 ～ 1000 (blue)

class 2 : 1001 ～ 2500 (green)
class 3 : 2501 ～ 5000 (yellow)
class 4 :5001 ～ (red)

Hint

Answer

Map Expor t
Export your map an imagery file for printing. QGIS has an additional
function such as adding a direction symbol and a scale bar for printing.
Click “New print composer” icon from toolbars.
Add a map, symbols and others to

Initial screen from the menu.

Add a map into composer screen
1) Click “Add new map” icon
2) Drag at any place on the composer

screen while choosing “Add new map” icon
map size and other settings

can be adjusted freely.

Add Label
Add icon and

Export as an pictures.
imagery, PDF, SVG.
Add legend
Those elements can be

modified from “Item
Properties” at the right side

Contents Today
1st session
1What’s QGIS?
2 Basic usage
3Basic data management
4 Map Design

HOMEWORK

DATA
pref_pop.csv
homework1
Japan_pref.shp
(1) Add “Japan_pref.shp” and “pref_pop.csv” on layer.
(2) Join “Japan_pref” layer with “pref_pop” and save it as

“Japan_pref_new.shp”.
(3) Calculate population density in all prefecture using both

“pop2010” and “pop2035” ﬁeld.
(4) Classify the poplation density in 2010 and 2035 into 5

categories.

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Spatial data handling

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• One of open source GIS software named FOSS4G

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Select / Join data GIS data analysis

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• Double click the QGIS shortcut

• The window will open.

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Layer map view

map info / settings

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• Choose “Manage Plugins...” from“Plugins” on the top menu and

“Add Delimited Text

GIS data can be devided into 2 types..

• Raster type ex) JPEG,PNG,TIFF

• Vector type ex) Shape file(.shp)

For instance, imagine a river and bridge,

Raster type Vector type

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• Vector type data mostly used in the world.

*.shp (geometry type and geographical coordinates)

same file name

Line Data ex) road data, railway data, river data

Polygon Data ex) city shape, building data

1) Click “Add vector layer”

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• Japanese GIS data by Government such as National Land

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1) Click “Identify Feature”

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1) Click “Save Project”

3) save a project as “.qgs” type

Add following data in the folder“tokyo23”.

elevation.shp (Polygon data: an terrain data inTokyo special

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You can select plural files while pushing

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The order of layer on TOC can be

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Only subway and station layer

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Delete other than “ku” layer.

# This function doesn’t delete a file

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The feature“0” has a name of “A building” and an area of

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If you choose a map feature on map view,

click a line number which

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1) Click “Advanced Search”.

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If you click, item will be

Input “AREA >= 20,000,000”

“Test” show you whether the condition expression is