Tutorial Cartography for Map Figures in Academic Journals & Books
Requisitos de conclusão
3. Hands On
3.4. Setting Up Your Map Project: Assemble all the data
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Open QGIS Desktop and start a new project.
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Load in the data in QGIS - Lake Monsters, Lakes, Admin 1 boundaries (states). All of the data we're working with today is vector data.
![](https://courses.gisopencourseware.org/pluginfile.php/1273/mod_book/chapter/2420/image%20%281%29.png)
Note that the colors of the data are selected at random, so your data will probably look different.
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Save your project file.
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Set your project's projection to North America Albers Equal Area Conic (ESRI: 102008). I'm using the first transformation it offers me because that one is most appropriate for the area we'll be mapping today.
Save the project again.