QGIS Tips & Tricks ¶

A collection of short QGIS how-to videos — plugins, workflows, and practical tricks. A number of them are directly relevant to mapping in Cyprus, including how to pull historical orthophotos from the Department of Lands and Surveys (DLS) portal.

Browse the full QGIS playlist on YouTube.

Cyprus-specific: historical orthophotos ¶

How to add Imagery Orthophotos from DLS portal Cyprus (1963 to 2014) — using the MapSwipe tool to bring historical Cyprus aerial imagery into QGIS.

Working with water networks: QGIS to EPANET ¶

QGIS to EPANET Input Files — exporting a water network from QGIS into an EPANET input file, ready for hydraulic simulation.

More videos in the series ¶

• How to use offline maps in QGIS
• QGIS Plugin — Road Inspection Viewer
• How to install third-party Python modules
• How to open multiple QGIS windows with different user profiles
• How to add a 2GIS basemap in QGIS 3
• QGIS 3: Contours to raster TIN interpolation (elevations)
• QGIS Plugin — QVisualize
• Visualize a Moving Car using QGIS
• QGIS Plugin — ImportPhotos
• QGIS Plugin — ImportEpanetInpFiles
• Two ways to change selection colour in QGIS

Got a QGIS trick worth sharing with the Cyprus community? Get in touch — we’d love to feature it here.