Plugins in QGIS

Date: October 23 2025

Instructor: Lily Crandall-Oral

This intermediate-level workshop is meant to extend basic knowledge of QGIS by exploring common plugins. Familiarity of the QGIS is therefore a prerequisite. By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to use plugins to

• Access dynamic basemaps hosted on web servers
• Query and download Open Street Map (OSM) data
• Geocode address data from a spreadsheet, and
• Create an interactive webmap from a QGIS project

Familiarity with GIS is prerequisite for this workshop.

This workshop is taught by a graduate student in Geography with expertise in GIS and cartographic methods.

Things to do before arriving:

QGIS is a free and open source desktop geographic information system (GIS). It can be installed on Windows, MacOS, and Linux using the download instructions here: https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/download.html.

Before attending, please download the most recent QGIS Long Term Release and review the Research Commons’ Introduction to QGIS.