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How to start a new project in QGIS?
You have spatial data and know what you want to analyse, but how do you start? This short tutorial gets you started and guides you step by step through a project setup.
Using GIS to tackle the SDGs
How do companies, NGOs and public institutions monitor their progress towards the sustainable development goals (SDGs), and how can GIS software contribute? Five speakers provided answers from different perspectives at the event “Using GIS to tackle the SDGs”, organized by the GIS Hub and ESRI Switzerland.
“I love to see my data on a map”
As a dialectologist, Carlota de Benito Moreno is interested in how linguistic features change over time and space. By plotting her data on a map and combining it with historical data, she can detect diffusion patterns, divides, or clusters. Sometimes, she even discovers something she did not expect.
Von der Wundermaschine zum kritischen Tool
Als sich Archäologe Timo Geitlinger vor ein paar Jahren zum ersten Mal an eine GIS-Software wagt, meint er, eine Wundermaschine vor sich zu haben. Heute hingegen weiss er, wie die Wunder zustande kommen und wie vielseitig und geschickt er die Software in seiner Forschung einsetzen kann.
“I will use GIS software again in my career”
Lovasoa Rakotozafy, a PhD student in Ecology at UZH, used a GIS software to prepare her field work in Madagascar. «There are a lot of things of which I don’t know how I would have done them without the software», she admits.