> Objective

This section explains how to upload QGIS projects on the Mergin Maps Input app. This app allows the users to get their QGIS projects onto their mobile phones and/or tablets.  

> Index / Table of contents

• Introduction  

• Tutorial(s)  

• QGIS installation  

> Summary and Highlights  

Introduction  

The Mergin Maps Input app allows the users to get their QGIS projects onto their mobile phones or tablets. The projects can also be edited by using these devices (e.g. add photos). The tutorials below show to work with this application.  

This application is available on both Android, Apple and Windows. The download links can be find on the GitHub page of the Mergin Maps Input app under the download section: https://github.com/MerginMaps/input.   

Tutorial(s) 

• Synchronize a project with the Mergin cloud service and use the project in the Input app   Hans van der Kwast: “How to create an app for field surveying of crop water productivity with FAO WaPOR”  Language(s): English  Time: 15min 52s Chapters: introduction (start-0:52), online layers (0:52-1:56), offline layers (1:56-4:58), survey layer (4:58-12:18), mobile app (12:18-14:48), additional tips (14:48-end)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O0LhaY0ZLI  

• Design field forms, make XYZ tiles and use the Input app   Hans van der Kwast: “Field surveys with QGIS, Mergin and Input”  Language(s): English  Time: 29min 53s  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AZ9gPAhL_4   

• Synchronize a MerginMaps project with pictures collected in the field using the mobile phone app   Hans van der Kwast: “Mapping Field Pictures collected with MerginMaps in QGIS using Wedge Buffers”  Language(s): English  Time: 8min 36s  Chapters: intro (start-0:35), overview (0:35-1:38), downloading MerginMaps (1:38-1:50), opening the project (1:50-2:17), where are the pictures stored (2:17-2:33), import geotext photos (2:33-3:22), add marker (3:22-3:38), attribute table (3:38-4:08), reproject (4:08-4:33), fetch buffers (4:33-5:40), shape burst fill (5:40-6:00), image marker (6:00-7:21), wedge buffer size (7:21-7:38), wedge buffer storage (7:38-end) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGXcFpSaTn0 

> QGIS Installation

Do you still need to install QGIS? The QGIS installation and update section explains how to install QGIS on Windows and macOS. 

Useful Links 

QGIS Training Manual

QGIS User Guide

GIS OpenCourseWare

Mergin Maps GitHub page

Mergin Maps Documentation

WaPOR data

Hans van der Kwast YouTube channel

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