North River Geographic Systems Inc
Online QGIS Training
Welcome to the Training site for North River Geographic Systems, Inc. We have online training and a list of classes we offer in person. NRGS has been offering an “Introduction to QGIS” for well over 10 years. Increasing costs and increasing complexity has been pushing more and more people toward QGIS and it’s a great piece of Software. We don’t use it because it’s free – we use it because it’s the best approach for the work we do.
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Introduction to QGIS
New to QGIS? QGIS is a Free and Open Source GIS Desktop that is able to convert, analyze, and create data as well as very nice Maps. It runs on every mainstream operating system and has an large user community. Shapefiles? ESRI File Geodatabases? Geopackage? DXF? QGIS can open and work with them all. This class gives the new user a very good overview of QGIS and hopefully what can be accomplished with it. There are 8 chapters overall ranging from an introduction to QGIS, overview of the processing tools, and data formats. The class also comes with data (a download) and some very simple quizzes throughout. Class is priced at $75 dollars (US Currency) and money goes to supporting the software AND maintaining the class. This class covers QGIS 3.44.x.
QGIS - Tips and Tricks
This former conference workshop covers a wide variety of topics in QGIS that you may or may not know about. It’s a fun way to kill a few hours or for just basic skill enhancement with QGIS. With new features at each QGIS release this class should get a bit larger every year. Current Topics include the locator bar, virtual layers, user profiles, and processing tools. Participants must have some knowledge of QGIS and access to the software. The best part – this class is free. So if you have an existing account just login and take it. If not – Sign up for an account.
QGIS Certificates Issued
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Training News
Color Ramps with DEMS
What if you add a Digital Elevation Model to QGIS and you want to shade it according to Elevation? By default, the DEM will be a gray shaded layer where the lightest parts of the DEM are the highest and the darker ones are lower. On the properties for your DEM layer...
QGIS: Model Designer
I started a third class this weeked - Model Designer. I've taught it at a few conferences and after pouring back over it last week I've decided it's the next candidate to get moved with some re-work. When I did this one it was specifically to fit into 4 hours - BUT -...
Added Another class: QGIS Tips and Tricks
The good news - It's free - and will updated periodically. About 2.5 years ago I did a workshop at FOSS4GNA 2023 in Baltimore and it was "QGIS Tips and Tricks". It was a pile of small things that QGIS does that possibly no one knows about. I covered a lot of things...
Exploring QGIS Class
So you may have stumbled on this OR you were redirected from the North River Geographic System website. The QGIS class has been around about 12 years. It's generally (except for about a year) been taught in person and was targeted at ESRI software users who were...