Collecting Field Data with QGIS and Mergin Maps

What is Mergin Maps?

Take your QGIS project into the field with Mergin Maps. With Mergin Maps, you can easily capture features and photos with your team, synchronize changes across devices and use the power of QGIS to manage your project.

This concise 137 page book, covers everything you need to know to work with Mergin Maps. If you are new to Mergin Maps and QGIS, the book begins with a gentle introduction. This includes all the basic steps of setting up a project in QGIS, configuring survey layers, conducting your first field survey and making your first map.

If you are familiar with Mergin Maps, the book includes information on more advanced workflows. There is a detailed chapter on advanced project configuration and information on project management and collaboration principles. With this book you can unleash the full power of the Mergin Maps platform.

Kurt Menke is a passionate advocate for open source software, especially QGIS. This is his 10th QGIS book and he can frequently be found speaking at FOSS4G and QGIS conferences. Kurt was a professional archaeologist before returning to graduate school and earning a Masters of Science degree in Geography from the University of New Mexico in 2000. He now lives in Denmark where he works for Septima as a spatial analyst, data visualization expert and teacher. In 2015 was elected as an OSGeo Charter Member.

Alexandra Bucha Rasova writes and maintains the Mergin Maps documentation as a technical writer for Lutra Consulting. She has a PhD in geodesy and cartography and has been applying her skills in the field of archaeology and cultural heritage for over 10 years now, aiming to make QGIS easy and useful to non-technical users.

Tyler Mitchell is the primary editor for Locate Press open source geospatial book titles and has also written two books on the subject.