Creating a Heatmap using QGIS

Purpose

The purpose of the tutorial is to provide users with a step by step process of how to create a heatmap on QGIS. This tutorial will contain detailed explanations on how to download and use the QGIS software, how to get open source data and how to use the Heatmap feature in Symbology, make analysis and inferences from the data and how to create a map in QGIS. The tutorial will also cover the limitations of QGIS for making Heatmaps. For the tutorial, we would be making a Toronto Crime Heatmap with Data from the Toronto Police.

Introduction

Materials

About QGIS

Download QGIS

Data Acquisition

Tools and Methods

Getting started

Import Data

Process

Methodology

Conclusion

Resources

Creating a Heatmap using QGIS

Contents