GIS Curriculum for PMGSY

Last Updated: Dec. 2020

Intended Audience:
NRIDA YCEs
GIS Nodal Officers (State)
GIS Analysts (State)

Module 1 Module 2 Module 3 Module 4 Module 5

Introduction to GIS and Load Georeferencing and Creating GIS Maps and Functions in QGIS Working with Google
your CSV Data in Qgis Create Layers Reports Earth
 Module 3 – Creating GIS Maps and Reports

Learning Objectives

Filtering the data

Symbolic Representation of Facilities

Module 1 Module 2 Module 3 Module 4 Module 5

Introduction to GIS and Georeferencing and Creating GIS Maps and Functions in QGIS Working with Google
Installation of QGIS Create Layers Reports Earth
Module 3 – Exercise 1
In M1 Exercise 1, we have just created a shapefile from the CSV file and we have applied symbology.
In this exercise, we will learn to:

A. Perform spatial query to create a subset data of facility for a particular block
B. Overlay a block boundary to clearly represent the limit of the block
C. Generate a map, printable on A3 Paper size in the JPEG file format
D. Generate a report on the available bedded hospitals per block
The file is redistributable and can be shared with the
block administrative agencies. This map will be useful
to proposed a road at block level or village level. The
final output map will look something like below
consisting of North Arrow, Scale Bar and Legend.
Data Resources you will require:

All the required Excel, layers, project files,

Icon etc. are supplied in the file M3 Exercise1
Producing final map.zip
1. Open Project file: We are going to use
Exercise 1 (Facility Details for Citizen. qgz)
project file which is also available in the
resource file of the exercise directory.
Just Double click on the Facility Details for
Citizen. qgz from the repository
This project file will upload all the layers
along with the symbology style which we
have applied in exercise 1.
2. Load Block Boundary: All states have
a block boundary at the state level in the
form of a single / mosaic layer. We are
going to use this layer and will filter the
data to get a single block boundary. The
same boundary can further be used to
select the facilities which are inside this
boundary.

a. Click on the ‘Open Data Source

Manager’.
b. Select ‘Vector’ Layer. In Source,
browse to the available Block
Boundary shape file (for this exercise
user can use the file available in the
Resource folder).
Please select ESRI Shape files (*.shp
*.SHP) from the lower left drop down
menu.
c. Select Open > Add

Please notice that a new layer (Block

Boundary) has been added now in the
canvas.
Exit from the data source manager.
3. Filtering Block Boundary
a. Right click on the ‘Block boundary’ layer.
b. Click on “Filter…”. A Query Builder will open.
c. In Fields list, double click on “Block Name” .
To see the Block boundary on canvas, user needs to
d. Click on the “=” operator, then double click on the Block Name
right click on the Block Boundary layer and click on
which is displayed in the Value list. To get all block name click on All .
the “Zoom to Layer”. A Block boundary as shown in
e. Click Ok
the image below will be visible.
OR After step 2 User can type expression and click ok.
4. Applying Simple symbology to Block Boundary Level
a. Right Click on the Block Boundary Layer in the Layer
panel.
b. Click on the Properties
Notice the map visualization in the canvas will change
c. Click on ‘Symbology’ accordingly. The layer legend will also be changed.
d. Then Select “outline black” from the available symbols. Note: Symbology of all features should be based on GRISS’s
e. Click OK Standard symbol to standardize the map.
5. Creating a Subset of the Facility Layer: Open the Attribute table by right clicking on the
‘FacilityDetailsForCitizen’ Layer and then selecting ‘Open Attribute Table’.
Examine the Attribute Table. In the attribute table, we don’t have any field which represents the block or
district, so we are going to use the GIS tool “Select By Location” to select facilities which fall within the block
only.
Go to Main Menu > Click Vector > Research Tools> Select by Location…

Note: There are some other tools also that we can use to subset the layer. We will explore some of them in
our subsequent exercises.
6. In the ’Select by location’ dialog box,
a. Select ‘FacilityDetailsForCitizen’ in the ’Select features
from’
b. Check ’Intersect’ as the geometric predicate. After the process is finished, user will see some highlighted
c. Set ’Block_Boundary’ in ’By comparing to the features facilities from ”FacilityDetailsForCitizen” layer , which falls
from’. within the “Block_Boundary” polygon .
d. Keep Default value in ‘Modify current selection by’.
e. Click Run.
 In the Save Vector Layer as... dialog,
7. User can save only highlighted
a. Select ESRI Shapefile as the format.
features by right clicking on the
”FacilityDetailsForCitizen” layer > b. Save the output “Adimaly_Facilities.shp” to the resource directory.
Export > click on Save Features As.. c. ‘Save only selected features’ should be checked.
d. Keep ‘Add saved file to map’ checked to add file in the canvas >
OK
A new layer
“Adimaly_Facilities” is added
to the Layers panel with
features falling within the
“Block_Boundary” polygon
8. Copy the Symbology: We will now use a copy and
paste method to symbolize each point according to the Now we can simply paste the symbology to
“Facility S” value. Right Click on the Source Layer (Adimaly Facilities) layer as shown in the image
(FacilityDetailsForCitizen)> Styles > Copy Style > click on below.
Symbology to copy the symbology.
Note: Copy and Paste method only work when the
layers attribute fields and values are same.
9. We can now remove the ”FacilityDetailsForCitizen” 10. Export the map: ‘Print Layout’ can be used to create
layer by right clicking on the layer and then clicking on maps.
Remove Layer… to remove the current Layer. Go to Project > New Print Layout.
11. User will be prompted to enter a title 12. We will change the default A4 paper size to A3 ,
for the layout. user can leave it empty or Right Click on the white portion on the paper > Page Properties..
provide a name for future reference and Change the size A4 to A3 in the item property panel and notice change in the
click Ok. paper size. Click on Zoom full button to display the full extent of the Layout .
13. We now have to bring the QGIS Canvas data with symbology to the layout.
Select > Add Map
After clicking on the Add Map, hold the left mouse button and drag a rectangle (From Upper left corner to Lower Right Corner
then release mouse button) where you want to insert the map.
Notice the rectangle window
will be rendered with all the
layers from the main canvas.
This window may not be
covering the full extent of block
boundary.
Use Select/Move
item and Move Content options
to pan the map in the window
and center it in the composer.
We can also click on Zoom
full button to display the full
extent of the Layout and
adjust the zoom level for the
map.
Click on the ’Item
Properties’ tab and
enter 175000 as
the Scale value.
14. Now we are going to add some standard map elements like North Arrow, Legend and Scale Bar to the map.
Click Add Item > Add North Arrow
You can also choose from the standard tool bar.

Click on the layout where you want the North Arrow to appear.
15. Click on the layout where you want the scalebar to appear. In the ’Item Properties’ tab > In
the Segments panel > change the ’Fixed width’ to 20 units and adjust the segments to your liking.
16. Click on Add Item > Add Label -to add title of the 17. To add legend, click on Add Item > Add Legend, then click on
map, you can increase the size of the font by clicking on the map and draw a box where the legend should be and adjust
the font here we are using 15 size. the box.
In the ‘Item Property’ tab, Uncheck ‘Auto update’ , select
‘Google map’ to remove from the legend.
18. After putting all the elements, user can now export map as an Image, User will be prompted a WMS Layer message
PDF or SVG. For this Exercise, Click Layout > Export as Image to save > close this
map in Jpeg format.
This is the exported Jpeg image
of the block.
 Bedded hospitals per block

Next, we will look at filtering only the bedded hospitals per block.. This can be produced easily in excel if we
have the Block ID or Block Name against each facility. Unfortunately, block information is not available in
the facility shapefile.
However, using the ‘spatial join’, we can transfer block Id and Block Name from one layer (Block Boundary) to
another (FacilityDetailsForCitizen) based on their spatial relationship.

First we have to filter the facility data to

exclude other facilities.

1. Right-click the ‘FacilityDetailsForCitizen’

layer and select Filter.
2. In the Query Builder, type the following 3. Now we can do a spatial join using this layer. Go
expression to get all the records of the bedded to Processing > Toolbox.
hospitals. Search and locate the Vector general ‣ Join attribute
"Facility S" = 'Bedded Hospital' by location (summary) algorithm. Double-click to
Click OK. launch it.
4. In the ’Join attribute by location (summary)’ dialog,
select Block_Boundary as the Input layer. The
FacilityDetailsForCitizen will be the Join layer. You can leave
the Geometry predicate to the default Intersects. Click
the ... button next to Fields to sumarize.

5. Select Facility_S and

click OK
6. Similarly, click the ... button next to ’Summaries’ to
calculate.
7. Browse the location to save the output and provide the
Select count as the summary operator and click OK.
name and filetype (CSV)
Now we are ready to start the processing. Click Run.
Close the window after process completion.
Notice now, in the main QGIS window, you will see a new Joined table (Bedded Hospital_Block) added
to layer panel.
When you open the table, you will see a new column Facility S_count added to the input layer attribute
(Block boundary). This contains the count of all bedded hospitals which are intersecting with that
feature.

Congratulations!
You have now completed
Module 3.