Digitizing in QGIS
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Purpose
The purpose of this tutorial is to demonstrate the process of creating a vector model by digitizing an aerial photo within QGIS.
Objective
The objective is to retrieve an aerial photo of the City of Ottawa and using QGIS software digitize the different land use classes and geographical features within the photo.
Software
The software that will be used for this tutorial is QGIS 2.18.15. QGIS is a user friendly open source geographic information system, it runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, Windows and Android and supports numerous vector, raster and database formats and functionalities. The software can be downloaded at [QGIS]
Data
The data for this tutorial is a aerial photo that was retrieved from [Carleton Library Aerial Images]
