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The document is a handout for the BK4AC2 Geodata Analysis Workshop 2023/24, focusing on starting projects with QGIS and delineating study areas. It provides step-by-step instructions on using QGIS tools, loading data, and applying symbology. Key tasks include selecting features, exporting data, and creating buffers around selected areas for analysis.

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The document is a handout for the BK4AC2 Geodata Analysis Workshop 2023/24, focusing on starting projects with QGIS and delineating study areas. It provides step-by-step instructions on using QGIS tools, loading data, and applying symbology. Key tasks include selecting features, exporting data, and creating buffers around selected areas for analysis.

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BK4AC2 Geodata Analysis Workshop 2023/24

Handout: Start your project with delineating the study area


Dr Ana Petrović, Department of Urbanism, TU Delft, 6-3-2024

Contents
Starting your work with QGIS................................................................................................................1
Delineating your study area...................................................................................................................1
Introduction to symbology....................................................................................................................2

Starting your work with QGIS


- Start and save your QGIS project
- Change language: Settings → Options → General
- Layout: View → Panels and Toolbars
- Right click on the toolbar → Panels (Choose Layout Styling and Processing Toolbars)
- Have a look at PlugIns
- Install PDOK PlugIn
- Remember the difference between WFS (Web Feature Service) and WMTS (Web Map Tile
Service). For example:
o Load Luchtfoto; search for Julianalaan 134, Delft in the PDOK Search filed
o Opentopoachtergrondkaart
 Layer Styling → Select layer → Change colour → Reset
 You cannot change the colour of specific buildings, remove borders, etc.
o Bodemgebruik as WFS and WMS
 Bodemgebruik WFS: Use Info arrow to show the details; apply Symbology
(see below the section on symbology)

Delineating your study area


There are various options for delineating your study area.

- Load CBS buurten


- Make layer transparent: Change Opacity or Layer Rendering → Multiply
- Make neighbourhood borders more visible: Layer Styling → Single Symbol → Simple Fill (click
on □ Simple Fill) → Change Stroke width
- Select buurt: On the Toolbar click on ‘Select Features by Area or Single Click’ and select one
buurt (multiple buurten with Ctrl)
- Export selected study area → Save selected Features As
o Format ESRI Shapefile or GeoPackage
o File name – find the path; Save only elected features – choose fields

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- A very useful option for selecting your study area from the data for the whole country is the
Filter: Right click on the layer → Filter → Query Bilder appears

- Create buffer around the selected buurten: Vector → Geoprocessing tools → Buffer
o Choose option Save to GeoPackage (next to the field Create temporary layer)
o Choose option Dissolve result

- Create new layer: Layer → Create Layer → New GeoPackage Layer


o Choose existing GeoPackage
o Give another layer name
o Choose geometry type (polygon)
o Add new field (Name, type text)
o OK, Add New Layer
o Toggle Editing, draw polygon (Add Polygon Feature) – draw with left clicks, the last
one is the right click, give name (instead of NULL), OK
o With Vertex tool move vertices
- Explore the Browser – remove layers and add layers from the browser

- Select by location
o Load point data
o Select by location, Intersect on, points that intersect with the study area
o Export → Save Selected Features
 Change the CRS (if it was WGS or some other) to the Dutch CRS of the
project (Amersfoort / RD New)

Introduction to symbology
- Symbology of the study area
o Click □ Simple Fill) → Change Fill style to No brush
o Click □ Simple Fill) → Change Stroke colour to red
o Click □ Simple Fill) → Increase Stroke width

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Before applying symbology to the attribute you want to map, check for missing values (here -99997;
check also the metadata) and exclude them using the filter.

Then you can play with different options for symbology. This is just an example:

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