Infrastructure
– UZH QGIS Cloud
– Request access to ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Pro with your UZH account (fill in the form in the link and you will get notified once your access has been set up)
Data
Topographic Raster and Vector Maps, Digital Elevation Models and Orthophotos (by GeoVITe, open to all students and researchers at UZH, login via Switch edu-ID)
Open Data Switzerland
This is small selection of open data for Switzerland which you can use to practice:
– Open Data Zürich (by Stadt Zürich)
– Swiss Open Government Data (by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office, FSO)
– Open Data Collection, curated by S. Graf
Some global open data sources
– Overpass turbo, a web-based data filtering tool for OpenStreetMap
– World Bank
– UNESCO
– SprachGIS (in German, “Language GIS”) on regionalsprache.de
– OGD Portal Germany
– OGD Portal Austria
– OGD Portal EU
– OGD Portal UK
– OGD Portal USA
Maps
– Kartenportal.CH: specialist portal for maps from libraries and archives in Switzerland
Tutorials and other support material for QGIS
– QGIS Beginner Tutorials in our Blog: How to start a new project in QGIS? , Selecting point data in QGIS, Working with point data (II) etc.
– QGIS Cheatsheet (by openschoolmaps.ch)
– QGIS Training Material (by qgis.org, in various languages)
– QGIS Basics Wiki (by Daniel Ursprung)
– QGIS courses at Coursera
– Tutorials for the QGIS Cloud (by Leyla Ciragan)
Tutorials and other support material for ArcGIS Online
– ArcGIS Online for Beginners | Learning Plan (esri.com)
– Essential ArcGIS Online skills | 10 tutorials (esri.com)