Exercises Module 3 - Basic GIS Operations#

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These exercises touch on all the content of module 3

Geodata digitisation#

Geodata Classification#

  • Overview map of the prevalence of stunting in Sierra Leone: This exercise aims to create an overview map of the prevalence of stunting in Sierra Leone at district level. To do this, we will visualise both the prevalence of stunting and key infrastructure such as hospitals, airports and roads. The decision on which data to visualise and how to present it is up to you, the cartographer.

    • Geodata Classification- Categorized

    • Geodata Classification- Graduated

Big exercise for module 3#

These exercises touch on all the content of module 3.

  • Exercise: Flood Nigeria: The exercise evolves around the scenario visualizing the situation during the flood in 2022 in one state of Nigeria. You will work with administrative borders and population data from HDX. Furthermore, you will create your own geodata based on information from the field. In the end, you need to use categorised classification to visualize different datasets.

    • Import vector data into QGIS

    • Select features by hand

    • Export selected features as a new geodata set

    • Select/ extract features by attribute

    • Select/extract features by location

    • Manipulate attribute tables

    • Use categorized classification

    • Create a new point layer