![]() Learning to type your way through changing projections, cropping images, filtering data etc. You’re gonna install GDAL (Geospatial Data Abstraction Library), a command-line tool that lets you edit geodata without clicking around in QGIS. If you’re on twitter, search #cartography or #practicarto on twitter and start asking questions.Map Resources Page – links compiled by Robin Tolochko.Please ask questions when you get stuck! We’re here to help you! Request an invite then join #cartography-designs, #gdal-ogr, #qgis, #data-sources and #newcomer-questions. The Spatial Community – The upsetting part about learning cartography is the software, so you need computer pals to ask “why’s this broken?” The Spatial Community is a Slack channel where technical geographic information system (GIS) experts hang out, very friendly people who don’t mind questions from new mappers.▼ There’s a big directory of links at the bottom of this page if you need data, a tutorial, some inspo, check down there first. Make the remaining data look nice in your graphic design software. ![]() Modern start-with-pile-of-data carto is about knowing what to leave off the map, so you’ll spend a lot of time sifting tangles of data for what you actually want to show. Thin out, clean, futz with that data in free software programs QGIS and GDAL.Download geographic data: roads, rivers, lakes, hills, valleys, towns, lighthouses, etc.Here’s my map workflow, you’ll find yours soon enough:
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