Create convincing maps for your research and teaching

The course is fully booked. If you wish to be put on the waiting list or if you want to be informed about upcoming similar events, send an e-mail to gis-hub@dsi.uzh.ch.

Creating maps and visualizing spatial data can be done quite easily today. The workshop shows how to create different kind of maps that can be used as illustrations for your research or conference papers or in lecture room for teaching. We will work with QGIS, an OpenSource, fully functional GIS software with sophisticated tools for map design.

The workshop will show how to create different kinds of maps and spatial visualizations for print and online use. It is designed for people with no or little prior experience in map making. If you bring your own ideas and projects, we can build on this. The topics covered will follow the interests of the participants, like creating topographic and thematic maps (e.g. choropleths, heatmaps, diagrams), map series (atlas function), data driven visualization, symbolization and labelling as well as basic cartographic principles (colours, projections etc.).

*** Over lunch, we will have our launch event for the GIS Hub, including an aperitif! We look forward to toasting with you! *** 

Workshop language: English

Target audience: Research, teaching and administrative (ATP*) staff as well as BA/MA/PhD students of UZH (*administratives und technisches Personal)

Prerequisite: Bring your own device with a working installation of QGIS Desktop (preferably newest version: 3.28, no older than 3.22): https://www.qgis.org. You do not need any previous knowledge of QGIS, as the course is well suited for beginners. 

Venue: Rämistrasse 69, 8001 Zurich, SOC-E-006 – Room “Schrödinger”

Registration deadline: 28 October 2022

Contact: For questions concerning the content of the course, write to Daniel Ursprung (daniel.ursprung@hist.uzh.ch), for questions related to administration contact Katia Soland (katia.soland@uzh.ch).