Module 4 assignment: Making maps

[eduaardito17]

-I really like the simplicity of your map! I believe that simplicity is an essential attribute and we should all try to simplify as best as possible.

-As a suggestion, I think you could change the color of the observations to make them contrast more, it gets too confused with the color of the map.

-Everything else is fine, maybe it would have been good to make a different map than the gibbon

for everything else, good job!

[Lizard]

Had enough of a struggle following the basic instructions so I didn’t do anything fancy - but I am interested in including an inset of the greater area to give a little more context to my map. Thanks for the great module - extremely clear and informative.

[Lizard]

This looks great, glad you got to apply the concepts of this course with the work you’re doing. Are the sightings your personal observations? Over what time period was the data collected? Keen to know more as I’ve spent some time studying frog distribution in Costa Rica!

[Andrew]

This QGIS map shows the Gibbon sightings and threats evidence in Che Tao Nature Reserve. I decided to represent this data because I found them having common way of inserting spacial data in point form that indicates villages on the map. In my representation, I categorised threats evidence to differentiate from to another. one of the challenges I have is to export as image. I tried several times with no success.
Andrew

[Trevor]

This was a very challenging module, I was not able to include my second map but I will find time to go over this once more. I am really happy of the knowledge I have acquired so far. Now I will be able to produce detailed maps showing camera trap spots using my field data, Thank you Lucy!

[Royner_Carrasquero]

Thanks for your comment Hannah!! I really appreciate it and I happy to know that my map was good . I think your suggestion is right and I keep it in mind for the my next maps in order to continue to improve my skills at QGIS. Take care and have a nice day

[Royner_Carrasquero]

Heyyy what a map!!! nice job Hannah . It’s absolutely amazing the way you did it.
Theres’ not any doubt that you gonna do an excelent labor at your new Job!!

[Victor]

Hi Thanisha, I like how you play with the colors and it’s able to differentiate both surveys.

For the extended map, maybe you can try to enlarge it? You can try by
Click on move item content > double click the extended map > using scroll wheel to zoom in or out/ left click to drag to adjust the map

All the best!

[Thanisha14]

Hi Victor , I have enlarge the map and hope it looks better now . Thanks so much for your help and really appreciation it!

[Thanisha14]

Hi @Mario28, try doing this

1.Switch to the main QGIS window. Use the zoom out button to view the area around Vietnam. You can add OpenStreetmap and hide surveys so only the polygon is seen.

2.Once you are ready to add the map inset. Switch the the Print Composer Window. Go to Layout> Add Map.

3.Drag a rectangle at the place where you want to add the map inset. You will now notice that we have 2 map objects in the Print Composer. When making changes, make sure you have the correct map selected. Then you select the item properties tab, then start adding Frame and if you want to highlight the map as I did , Go to Layout > Add shape and draw it on top the map. After that you can adjust color and percentage of opacity.

I hope these instructions help you and All the best!

[mishb93]

I found the finicky aspects of styling, zooming, labelling, positioning, etc. to be most tricky in this module. I struggled to get items to appear how I envisioned them, and I didn’t wholly succeed. I expect this is mostly a matter of learning the particulars of QGIS by repetition, rather than understanding concepts.

My map has the simple message of communicating the location and approximate density of gibbons in the Reserve, as indicated by the two surveys.

[mishb93]

Nicely done. I like your use of slightly transparent markers for Gibbon groups. I think the sizes of your group markers could vary a little less, to avoid some overlap. When setting the properties of that item there is an option for min and max sizes, which I tweaked to try and get more appropriate sizes.

[Lorraine01]

Kept my map pretty basic. Quite a challenging exercise, struggled a lot in trying to edit my legend contents and it took me a couple of tries before I realised I had to untick the “auto update” box to be able to do that.

[Lorraine01]

Hi Szabo. Great map! Real easy to follow and shows great detail.

[Telegram2]

It was a challenging module but anyway l gain more knowledge and how to create map.

[Telegram2]

Wow what a wonderful work

[Lee]

This was pretty challenging. The message of my map is the latitudinal and longitudinal location of the Gibbon sightings, the distance between sightings, the orientation of sightings, the reserve represented, who collected the data and source plus technical information.
This week’s module has really pushed me forward in my goal of learning to create a map of data I will be collecting in the future. I’m very pleased about that.
Thank you for presenting this great course.Much appreciated.

[Lee]

Really like the different symbols and colours in your legend - nice and clear.

[Lee]

A larger map might be helpful with location sightings

[Vuyie]

HI
Here is my work! This module was quite fair, and interesting. I learnt a lot, adjusting position and size of my map, it was a bit crowded at first