QGIS Training Tutorials: Using Spatial Data in Geographic Information Systems
Have you ever wanted to create your own maps, or integrate and visualize spatial datasets to examine changes in trends between locations and over time? Follow along with these training tutorials on QGIS, an open source geographic information system (GIS) and learn key concepts, procedures and skills for performing common GIS tasks – such as creating maps, as well as joining, overlaying and visualizing spatial datasets. These tutorials are geared towards new GIS users. We’ll start with foundational concepts, and build towards more advanced topics throughout – demonstrating how with a few relatively easy steps you can get quite a lot out of GIS. You can then extend these skills to datasets of thematic relevance to you in addressing tasks faced in your day-to-day work. Each tutorial video is also accompanied by a written script, providing a step-by-step reference that users can follow alongside the video or consult afterwards.
- Publisher
- Statistics Canada
- Resources
- 22
- Catalogue metadata updated
- 2026-03-19
Data overview
- Formats
- HTML
- File languages
- English, French
Official sources and licences
Resources
- Demo 10 – Visualizing Vector Data (Pt. II) - Rule-Based Visualizations and Labelling (English, French, HTML) HTML
- Demo 11 - Best Practices, Tips and Altering Defaults in QGIS (English, French, HTML) HTML
- Demo 12 - Join by Attributes (Pt. I) - One-to-One Joins (English, French, HTML) HTML
- Demo 13 – Join by Attributes (Pt. II) - One-to-Many Joins (English, French, HTML) HTML
- Demo 14 – Making Maps in QGIS with the Print Layout (Pt. I) (English, French, HTML) HTML
- Demo 15 – Making Maps in QGIS with the Print Layout (Pt. II) (English, French, HTML) HTML
- Demo 16 - Semi-Automated Mapping in QGIS with the Atlas Panel (English, French, HTML) HTML
- Demo 17 - Geoprocessing Tools (Part 1) (English, French, HTML) HTML
- Demo 18 - Geoprocessing Tools (Part 2) (English, French, HTML) HTML
- Demo 19 – Intro to Raster Data (Part 1) – Processing and Visualising Single-Band Rasters (English, French, HTML) HTML
- Demo 1 - What is GIS, and why use QGIS? (English, French, HTML) HTML
- Demo 20 – Intro to Raster Data (Part 2) – Digital Elevation Models and the Raster Calculator (English, French, HTML) HTML
- Demo 2a - Categories, Sub-Types and Properties of Spatial Data (English, French, HTML) HTML
- Demo 2b - Downloading Spatial Datasets from Open Maps (English, French, HTML) HTML
- Demo 3 - Loading and Ordering Spatial Data in QGIS (English, French, HTML) HTML
- Demo 4 - Interacting with data in the Map Canvas (English, French, HTML) HTML
- Demo 5 - Vector Data – Exploring the Attribute Table and Layer Properties Box (English, French, HTML) HTML
- Demo 6 - Creating Vector Data (English, French, HTML) HTML
- Demo 7 - Selecting Features by Attributes in QGIS (English, French, HTML) HTML
- Demo 8 - Adding Fields and Editing Feature Attributes with the Field Calculator (English, French, HTML) HTML
- Demo 9 – Visualizing Vector Data (Pt. 1) – Symbology Styles (English, French, HTML) HTML
- Downloadable files (MP4, PDF) (English, French, HTML) HTML