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Mini-tutorial #1—Collecting geographic locations with a hand-held GPS receiver
GPS receiver
Survey location
GPS satellite system
Global Positioning System
Waypoint
Coordinate system
Prime meridian
Equator
Decimal degrees
Datum
Mini-tutorial #2: Transferring waypoints from a GPS unit to a QGIS point file
GPS (global positioning system)
Hand-held GPS unit
GPS receiver
Waypoints
USB (universal serial bus)
GPX file transfer
Data transfer
Shapefile
Coordinates to QGIS
Points to map
Plotting points
Mini-tutorial #3: Transferring coordinate data from a spreadsheet to a map in
QGIS
Excel
Spreadsheet
CSV (comma-separated values)
Import points
Plot coordinates
Import data
Plot points
Latitude
Longitude
Waypoint
Prime meridian
Equator
Decimal degrees
Mini-tutorial #4: Recognizing common geographic data files and working with
shapefiles
Shapefile
File management
Vector file
Raster file
.shp
File extension
File compression
Sharing file
Zipping file
Extracting file
Transferring file
Emailing file
Mini-tutorial #5: Working with QGIS project files; handling missing data layers
Project file
Shapefile
Geographic data file
Broken links
Missing data layers
File package
Sharing file
Qpackage
Zipping
Map package
Mini-tutorial #6: Coordinate systems and projections: how do I get all
my data layers to line up?
Coordinate reference system (CRS)
Projection
On-the-fly projection
Projected
Unprojected
.prj file extension
Metadata
Datum
Spatial reference system
Area distortions
Shape distortions
Distance distortions
