Want to get started with QGIS, but have no clue what to do?? You're in the right place!

Originally created for a QGIS workshop held for students in Amsterdam in December 2019, but the materials are open for everyone to use/copy/improve.

There are three basic tasks with instructions and sample data in the sample_data folder. They do not contain step by step instructions for each, but will give you the necessary input data and a brief description of steps you need to take to do the tasks.

Before you can find QGIS installers for your OS here:
https://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/download.html

Learn the absolute basics with this excellent video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLmMovuydqI

Excellent source of basic QGIS tutorials. Made for versions 2.x, but works mostly also with newer versions:
https://www.qgistutorials.com/en/

Another QGIS tutorial from GitHub. Also contains materials for QGIS 3.x:
https://github.com/mltConsEcol/QGIS-Tutorial

Basic data for countries, borders and topography can be found from Natural Earth:
https://www.naturalearthdata.com/

Free GIS datasets (What a name, eh?):
https://freegisdata.rtwilson.com/

OpenStreetMap can be downloaded using a QGIS plugin of your choice (e.g. QuickOSM) or for example from GeoFabrik:
https://download.geofabrik.de/

Data for Amsterdam can be found here:
https://maps.amsterdam.nl/open_geodata/

Need to do some geocoding? Check this site also for other useful materials:
https://github.com/toddmotto/public-apis#geocoding

Need a background map? Add an XYZ tile layer from OpenStreetMap and you will always have background maps at hand. Add the following URL in the Browser dialog to the XYZ tiles layer:
https://a.tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png

Does your data look ugly and incorrect in EPSG:4326? Check this site for an optimal projection:
http://projectionwizard.org/

Watch this video if you want to get a better idea about the possibilities of data analysis and visualisation in QGIS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0cVLzbEOig

For a more advanced user, here's a blog explaining how to do animations using the Time Manager plugin:
https://medium.com/@tjukanov/geogiffery-in-a-nutshell-introduction-to-qgis-time-manager-31bb79f2af19

Mapschool.io
https://mapschool.io/