BayGeo's Intermediate QGIS (Fall 2025)

Learning Objectives

QGIS is a free, open-source software that can analyze, edit, and visualize geospatial data. This powerful software is comparable in functionality to Esri's ArcGIS, but can run on any operating system — and did we mention it's free?

This workshop builds upon skills from BayGeo's "Intro to QGIS" workshop, but it is not required to have completed that workshop to join us.

Go beyond the basics of the powerful, free, open-source QGIS software. Perform spatial analysis, interpolation, time series, model building, geocoding, and georeferencing. This workshop includes interactive activities to guide you through intermediate-level GIS skills and time to work with data of your choosing. You will discover your inner cartographer by creating beautiful maps to communicate your results.

QGIS Certificate

BayGeo is now a certified QGIS training organization! By completing both the Intro and Intermediate QGIS workshops, participants will receive a certificate from QGIS International. You can read more about these certificates here: certification.qgis.org

This Workshop Meets Three Times

• Tuesday, December 2 (4:00 - 6:00 p.m. Pacific time) - class meets on Zoom
• Tuesday, December 9 (4:00 - 6:00 p.m. Pacific time) - class meets on Zoom
• Tuesday, December 16 (4:00 - 6:00 p.m. Pacific time) - class meets on Zoom

Lesson Plan

🔥 Class 1: Air Quality and Wildfires

• Interpolate data using various techniques
• Create, modify, and analyze raster data
• Add the temporal dimension to analysis

⚖️ Class 2: Policy Analysis

• Explore the vast geoprocessing toolbox
• Perform multi-step vector analysis
• Build models for reproducible analysis

🏚️ Class 3: Housing, Health & History

• Turn analog to digital with georeferencing
• Use demographic data to measure social impact
• Infuse historic maps with modern data

Meet your Instructor: Cam Denney

Cam is an unabashed map nerd, cartographer, and GIS professional. He is also an enthusiastic teacher. Cam currently works on the mapping team at the California Coastal Commission and adjunct faculty at University of San Francisco. He has used GIS in roles with the World Health Organization, Alameda County Food Bank, and Spatial Computing Team at Facebook.

Prior to that, he completed a master's in Geography from UC Davis and an Engineering degree from the University of Illinois.

Cam lives in Alameda, and can often be found shopping at his favorite grocery store located at: 37.8133886, -122.2682824

Questions?

• Contact Rick Kos, BayGeo's Education Director, at rkos@baygeo.org
• For more information about BayGeo, the Bay Area's hub for the geospatial community, visit baygeo.org