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Acquiring Vector Datasets from Data Repositories
Exercise 1a: Acquiring Data and Making Your First Map in QGIS
Figure 1
The QGIS Symbology panel showing marker style,
size, and color options for the airports layer.
Figure 2
The QGIS Print Layout window showing a map and
option to add title, legend, scale bar, and north arrow.
Figure 3
A finished map showing 76 airports in Alaska as
point symbols, with a title, legend, scale bar, north arrow, and data
credit.
Additional Reading
Figure 1
An annotated diagram showing all essential map
elements including title, legend, scale bar, north arrow, and source
citation.
Figure 2
Examples of sequential, diverging, and
categorical color palettes.
Figure 3
Examples of different map projections.
Figure 4
A choropleth map of U.S. states in varying
shades of green.
Figure 5
A proportional symbol map of the USA with
circles sized by population.
Figure 6
A dot density map of the USA.
Figure 7
A non-contiguous cartogram of U.S. states
resized by a data value.
Figure 8
A multivariate map combining choropleth shading
and dot density.
Figure 9
The same dataset classified using four different
methods.