{"id":524,"date":"2022-02-10T20:30:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T01:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/geospatialhumanities\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=524"},"modified":"2022-02-10T20:30:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T01:30:07","slug":"part-ii-a-adding-a-base-map","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/geospatialhumanities\/chapter\/part-ii-a-adding-a-base-map\/","title":{"raw":"Part II A: Adding a Base Map","rendered":"Part II A: Adding a Base Map"},"content":{"raw":"Now that we have opened QGIS and begun a project, we can start to add data to it.\r\n\r\nThe base map is the bottom-layer map over the top of which we will add all of our other layers. It is the map that forms the background map of our project. In many ways, it is the foundation of our GIS project.\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Go to the Browser, and expand the XYZ Tiles option.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Double-click the OpenStreetMap option. This will automatically add it to your layers.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_526\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"470\"]<img src=\"http:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/geospatialhumanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2022\/02\/Figure-1.26.png\" alt=\"Figure 1.26. This shows that to add a base map to the layers that people must go into the browser section, extend XYZ Tiles and click on the first choice \u201cOpenstreetMap\u201d.\" width=\"470\" height=\"739\" class=\"size-full wp-image-526\" \/> <strong>Figure 1.26<\/strong>[\/caption]\r\n\r\nWe can navigate the OpenStreetMap layer with the following tools. These tools allow us to pan around the map at the current zoom, to zoom in and out, and to zoom to a 1:1 ratio of the currently selected layer.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_525\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"424\"]<img src=\"http:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/geospatialhumanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2022\/02\/Figure-1.27.png\" alt=\"Figure 1.27. This is the view change buttons that can be found on the OpenStreetMap layer.\" width=\"424\" height=\"64\" class=\"size-full wp-image-525\" \/> <strong>Figure 1.27<\/strong>[\/caption]","rendered":"<p>Now that we have opened QGIS and begun a project, we can start to add data to it.<\/p>\n<p>The base map is the bottom-layer map over the top of which we will add all of our other layers. It is the map that forms the background map of our project. In many ways, it is the foundation of our GIS project.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Go to the Browser, and expand the XYZ Tiles option.<\/li>\n<li>Double-click the OpenStreetMap option. This will automatically add it to your layers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_526\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-526\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/geospatialhumanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2022\/02\/Figure-1.26.png\" alt=\"Figure 1.26. This shows that to add a base map to the layers that people must go into the browser section, extend XYZ Tiles and click on the first choice \u201cOpenstreetMap\u201d.\" width=\"470\" height=\"739\" class=\"size-full wp-image-526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/geospatialhumanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2022\/02\/Figure-1.26.png 470w, https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/geospatialhumanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2022\/02\/Figure-1.26-191x300.png 191w, https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/geospatialhumanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2022\/02\/Figure-1.26-65x102.png 65w, https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/geospatialhumanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2022\/02\/Figure-1.26-225x354.png 225w, https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/geospatialhumanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2022\/02\/Figure-1.26-350x550.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-526\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Figure 1.26<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We can navigate the OpenStreetMap layer with the following tools. These tools allow us to pan around the map at the current zoom, to zoom in and out, and to zoom to a 1:1 ratio of the currently selected layer.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_525\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-525\" style=\"width: 424px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/geospatialhumanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2022\/02\/Figure-1.27.png\" alt=\"Figure 1.27. This is the view change buttons that can be found on the OpenStreetMap layer.\" width=\"424\" height=\"64\" class=\"size-full wp-image-525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/geospatialhumanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2022\/02\/Figure-1.27.png 424w, https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/geospatialhumanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2022\/02\/Figure-1.27-300x45.png 300w, https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/geospatialhumanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2022\/02\/Figure-1.27-65x10.png 65w, https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/geospatialhumanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2022\/02\/Figure-1.27-225x34.png 225w, https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/geospatialhumanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2022\/02\/Figure-1.27-350x53.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-525\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Figure 1.27<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"menu_order":5,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-524","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless"],"part":454,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/geospatialhumanities\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/geospatialhumanities\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/geospatialhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/geospatialhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/geospatialhumanities\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":527,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/geospatialhumanities\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/524\/revisions\/527"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/geospatialhumanities\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/454"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/geospatialhumanities\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/524\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/geospatialhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/geospatialhumanities\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/geospatialhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/geospatialhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}