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Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences Vienna 2018 Volume 111/2 223 - 224 DOI: 10.17738/ajes.2018.

0014

Communications of the Society

DiGeo: Introduction and a new tutorial to geological maps with


QGIS 3.X
Georg H. ERHARTER1)2)*), & Markus PALZER-KHOMENKO3)
1)
Institute of Rock Mechanics and Tunnelling, Graz University of Technology, Rechbauerstraße 12, A-8010 Graz, Austria;
2)
geo-zt gmbh – poscher beratende geologen, Saline 17, A-6060 Hall in Tirol, Austria;
3)
Department für Geodynamik und Sedimentologie, Universität Wien, Althanstraße 14, A-1090 Wien, Austria;
*)
Corresponding author: erharter@tugraz.at

KEYWORDS QGIS; Open source software; Tutorial; Geological maps

The ongoing digitalization is seen as one of the ma- The presented tutorial offers a step-by-step guideline
jor challenges of our times. Many geologists hesitate to to create and design a geological map. The full version
utilize the advantages provided by digital systems be- can be found under https://geologie.or.at/index.php/
cause of their ostensible complexity and a lack of proper downloads2/category/5-qgis.
training. Therefore, the main objective of the Austrian The tutorial “Geological Maps with QGIS 3.X” is made for
Geological Society’s working group on Digital Geology inexperienced users who want to create their first digital
(DiGeo) is the support of earth scientists in facing these geological map. Nevertheless, more experienced users
challenges. The working group tries to accomplish this will probably find new, valuable functions as well. The tu-
by providing software courses (https://geologie.or.at/in- torial comprises a step-by-step instruction, which can be
dex.php/kurse), written tutorials, discussion panels and worked through consecutively, but individual chapters
group meetings. stand for themselves as well. Throughout the tutorial, an
We hereby present a new tutorial on the creation of exemplary geological map is created (Fig. 1).
geological maps with QGIS 3, an open source geographic Following a general overview of the software, the first
information system (GIS) application that can be freely step explains the download and installation of the pro-
downloaded from https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forus- gramme. Further on, basic information on coordinate
ers/download.html. The GIS software in general is made reference systems is given. The second step explains
for the visualization, analysis and modification of geospa- the implementation of different basemap layers (e.g.
tial data and, today, it is widely used in many scientific, raster data, web map services and scanned maps) as
industrial and governmental applications. As an official background maps. The georeferencing tool for the im-
project of the Open Source Geospatial ­Foundation (OS- plementation of scanned maps is also presented. In the
Geo), QGIS was designed to be user-friendly and can be third step, the creation of points, lines and polygons is
executed from different operating systems. It is constant- explained, which constitutes the actual creation of an
ly updated and provides an ever-increasing number of individual geological map. The last step shows how to
tools for various applications (QGIS Development Team, create a map layout including elements, such as a coordi-
2018). nate grid, a north arrow and a scale bar, as well as how to
Other tutorials on QGIS-based geological maps exist, export the finalized map.
but these are often based on older versions of the pro-
gram (e.g. Lorscheid, 2013; Mohsen Alshaghdari, 2017). Acknowledgements
For geologists, QGIS is a highly valuable software for the Review and advice from Dominik Jaeger, Dieter Mader
visualization of geological data and the creation of maps. and Christoph Candido are greatly appreciated.

Open Access. © 2018 Georg H. ERHARTER, Markus PALZER-KHOMENKO, published by Sciendo. This work is licensed under the 223
Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.
DiGeo: Introduction and a new tutorial to geological maps with QGIS 3.X

Figure 1: The geological map that is created over the course of the tutorial.

References Mohsen Alshaghdari, 2017. Geological mapping using


Lorscheid, T., 2013. Anleitung zur Erstellung einer open source QGIS, available at: https://www.research-
geologischen Karte mit QGIS 2.0, available at: https:// gate.net/publication/320163676_Geological_mapping_
www.steinmann.uni-bonn.de/studium-geowis- using_open_source_QGIS (accessed 23 October 2018).
senschaften/outdoor/nachbereitung/protokoll/ QGIS Development Team, 2018. QGIS Geographic Infor-
gesamtanleitung-qgis-2.pdf (accessed 23 October mation System, available at: https://www.qgis.org/en/
2018). site/ (accessed 23 October 2018).

Submitted: 03 09 2018
Accepted: 17 10 2018

Georg H. ERHARTER1)2)*), Markus PALZER-KHOMENKO3)


1)
Institute of Rock Mechanics and Tunnelling, Graz University of Tech-
nology, Rechbauerstraße 12, A-8010 Graz, Austria;
2)
geo-zt gmbh – poscher beratende geologen, Saline 17, A-6060 Hall in
Tirol, Austria;
3)
Department für Geodynamik und Sedimentologie, Universität Wien,
Althanstraße 14, A-1090 Wien, Austria;
*)
Corresponding author: erharter@tugraz.at

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