Hello! In this post I will be exploring QGIS even more using the programming historian’s instructions. For this project I needed my previous work from optional project 32.
First, I opened up my original project on QGIS and went to the project I would be adding on to. Then I needed to download a map called “PEI_HollandMap1798” which I added to my layers.
Then I needed to create a new shapefile. This was a long and tedious process but I eventually was able to figure out how to create one. I filled out the various areas of the file and added it as a layer.
This layer is meant to represent areas on the map and their years. To do this I clicked on the layer and edited it with the pointer tool and added the place name and it’s year.
I also did this with places on the map that no longer exist, so there was an end year.
I repeated this process to create six plots on the map that had years attached to them.
I then repeated this process with a new shapefile that was for roads. This process included the line tool and tracing the lines that were on the Holland map.
From tracing the old roads and layering it with the highway layer we can see that some roads are the same as the original while others have changed.
Lastly, I needed to repeat the same process for lots. This used the polygon tool to trace the lots on the Holland map.
One all of these steps were complete this is what my new layers look like along with the Holland map.
Overall, this tool is useful however there is a learning curve and the instructions are out of date and unclear. Due to this, mapping this project took me multiple hours and trial runs along with looking up alternate instructions to find certain features. This makes getting even basic steps much more difficult.
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