How to Digitizing in QGIS

Welcome to the Absolute Beginner's Guide for QGIS, designed to help you take your first steps with QGIS: popular, accessible, and open-source Geographic Information System software. In this series, we shall look at the very general basics of QGIS software, from installation up to a few advanced spatial analysis techniques. In overall, it is a perfect series for somebody who never stand in front of QGIS or beginner level in GIS.

This video will describe how one can digitize using the QGIS software step by step. Digitizing is the conversion of an image for example a raster image or hard copy map into a form of vector layers. We can see that:

• To increase the knowledge on different tools available in QGIS.
• Add a new vector layer and digitizing environment which will be used to digitize GIS data.
• Raster data can be vectorized or some features such as points, lines and polygons can be drawn from the raster data.
• How to optimise digitization and what needs to be avoided when undertaking it.

"At the end of this video, you will be able to create your spatial data in QGIS and start creating your vector layers."

Prerequisites:

QGIS installed (if you need help with this step, please see our QGIS Download and Installation tutorial) Click Here

Basic understanding of QGIS interfaces and navigation (see our QGIS: First Look course if you need help with this step). Click Here

Let's get started and learn how to digitize in QGIS!