Share your results!

Site:	OpenCourseWare for GIS
Course:	Enhancing Water Productivity with WaPOR: A Hands-On Workshop Using WaPLUGIN in QGIS
Book:	Share your results!

Printed by:	Guest user
Date:	Friday, 20 September 2024, 11:47 AM

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1. Show us your maps

1. Show us your maps

Congratulations on completing this short workshop with the WaPLUGIN team! We love beautiful maps, and we'd love to see yours. Using the indicators you computed during this workshop, or from any other area of interest, create a map and share it on your social media platforms.

1.1. Organize the Layers in QGIS

Let's first organise the layers in the project.

1. Make sure all the computed indicator layers (Beneficial Fraction, Adequacy, Relative Water Deficit, Total Biomass Production, Biomass Water Productivity, Yield, Crop Water Productivity) are loaded into your QGIS project.

1.2. Change the Color Ramp for Each Indicator Layer

Let's make the colour ramps representative for the indicators.

1. Select a layer (e.g., Adequacy) in the Layers panel and click

to open the Layer Styling panel.

2. Change the renderer from Singleband gray to Singleband pseudocolor to visualize the data with a color ramp.

3. Click on the Color Ramp dropdown to choose a suitable colour ramp for each indicator.

4. To customize further, click Edit Color Ramp and adjust the min-max values if necessary to highlight important data ranges.

1.3. Create a Map

We're going to create a map in the Print Layout.

1. To create a map, go in the main menu to Project | New Print Layout and give the layout a name (e.g., Oued Hellal Indicators Map).

2. In the Print Layout window, click on the Add Map tool in the toolbar.

3. Drag the mouse to create a map frame in the layout, which will display the view from your QGIS project.

4. Choose the Add Label

tool to include a title for your map (e.g., Water Productivity and Indicators in Oued Hellal).

You can customize the font, size, and color in the Item Properties panel.

5. Add a legend by clicking on the Add Legend button, which will display the color ramps for the indicators. Customize the legend to display only the relevant layers.

You can adjust the title and format the legend using the Item Properties panel.

6. Add a scale bar by clicking on the Add Scale Bar tool and placing it at the bottom of the map.

In Item Properties, you can adjust the units (e.g., meters or kilometers) and the scale.

7. When your map is complete, go to the main menu and click on Layout | Export as Image. Best to save to png for social media. Alternatively, you can save to PDF if you want to print the map.

8. Choose a file name (e.g., Oued_Hellal_Indicators_Map) and save the map to your computer.

1.4. Post on Social Media

Share your map on social media (LinkedIn or Twitter). You can tag our official page on LinkedIn or X.