The first two eLearning exercises comprise an introduction to QGIS, an open source GIS software.

The first section deals with installation issues. Follow the steps as described and download and install the software. It is recommended to download the Long Term Release version. The LTR version is supposed to be more stable than the latest release.

After installing the software you are ready to do the first steps with QGIS. Section 2 will describe the graphical user interface and you will learn how to load and visualize geodata.

Click the following button and you are guided to the QGIS course. In case of questions don't hesitate to use the discussion fora in the QGIS BOKUlearn course!