Learn how to create a free, interactive web map using the open-source mapping software, QGIS, and the QGIS2Web plugin. After designing a map and generating the web map files, the workshop shows how to deposit the files in a GitHub repo and publish the web map to a live URL that you can share. A sample dataset showing sunset times across the U.S. can be used with the exercise tutorial. View the workshop materials on GitHub: https://umass-gis.github.io/workshops/content/web-map/
Introduction
2:01 - Workshop overview
Setting up the map in QGIS
3:10 - Static vs. web maps
8:46 - Exercise overview
10:10 - What's in the sample dataset
12:29 - Opening QGIS / adding data and basemaps
15:53 - Changing the project's Coordinate Reference System
17:22 - Organizing project files
18:24 - Exploring the attribute table
20:55 - Symbology (categorized)
24:55 - Symbology (two variables)
28:22 - Symbology (graduated)
Using the QGIS2Web plugin
34:03 - Overview
36:40 - Setting up the project for export
45:04 - Plugin's layers and groups tab (layer visibility, popups)
49:07 - Plugin's appearance tab (abstract, widgets, default extent)
56:06 - Plugin's layer visibility tab
56:50 - Exporting the web map files
Publishing the map in GitHub
1:00:54 - Overview
1:02:14 - Logging in to GitHub / creating a new repo
1:06:04 - Editing the ReadMe file
1:09:10 - Uploading the web map files
1:13:34 - Publishing the web map with GitHub Pages
Random hot tips
27:58 - Renaming a layer
33:08 - Making a copy of a layer
43:12 - Applying symbology from one layer to another
Recording from the workshop "Make an Open-Source Web Map with QGIS" by Dr. Becky Seifried, Geospatial Information Librarian, UMass Amherst Libraries.