Getting familiar with the software

Congratulations! You're through the hardest part of this chapter. The following step is to make some initial configurations on the installed software to make them ready to use when we need them. First of all, let's open QGIS. At first glance, it has a lot of tools. However, most of them are very simple and self-explanatory. We can group the parts of the GUI as shown in the following image:

You can learn more about the individual GUI tools from the online QGIS manual at http://docs.qgis.org/2.14/en/docs/user_manual/introduction/qgis_gui.html. It is somewhat outdated; however, the GUI hasn't changed much since ...

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