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      "body": "*Link to earlier parts:\n [Part One - Using Avenza Maps and QGIS to create custom maps for free treasure hunting](https://steemit.com/geocaching/@smk762/using-avenza-maps-app-to-capture-gps-tracks-for-use-in-qgis-free)\n [Part Two -  Hidden treasure  in your local parks:  using Avenza maps to GPS your geocaches](https://steemit.com/geocache/@smk762/part-2-hidden-treasure-in-your-local-parks-using-avenza-maps-to-gps-your-geocaches)*\n \n ![A geocache box hidden under some pine cones](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/GeoCache_hidden_Under_Pine_Cones.jpg)\n \nIn the previous two articles, we used QGIS to create a simple basemap of a local park, imported the map into the Avenza mapping app on our smartphone, and used our GPS to record our walk along the riverside, and the location of a few geocaches we hid nearby.\n\nNow we'll pull that GPS information back into QGIS, where we have the tools to change the theme of the map into something a little more creative. Open the Avenza Maps app on your smartphone, and load the basemap we created in step one, and added the GPS track and placemarks to in part two. Follow the steps in the image below to export the track and placemarks 👇\n\n![Exporting Avenza map layers](https://i.imgur.com/Uo5xd5S.jpg)\n\nI've used KML as the export format, because it's easy to display in both QGIS and Google Earth, and it's available on the free license of Avenza Maps (shapefiles are not, but we can convert the KML in QGIS). You can export to device storage, drop box or email - whatever is most convenient.\n\nOnce you've copied the KML file onto your PC, open QGIS and load it up over the base layer created in  [Part One](https://steemit.com/geocaching/@smk762/using-avenza-maps-app-to-capture-gps-tracks-for-use-in-qgis-free)\n\nWe'll convert the KML to a shapefile, because that allows us a few more options for styling in part four. We'll also convert to a projected coordinate system, so we can measure the distance traveled while walking the GPS track along the river. Projected coordinate systems like the Map Grid of Australia (MGA) are measured in meters, and broken into different zone numbers. \n\n![Converting KML file to shapefile in QGIS](https://i.imgur.com/e377OSV.jpg)\n\nTo measure our track, we can use the `Add geometry attributes` tool. Just follow the images below, and it will calculate the distance of our track in meters.\n\n![enter image description here](https://i.imgur.com/DaRw3mt.jpg)\n\nClose the tool once completed, and you should see a layer called \"added geom info\". Right click on it and select \"open attribute table\".  Scroll right and in the last column, it will show you the distance traveled in meters for the GPS track.\n\n![GPS track of walk around Canning River Park](https://i.imgur.com/7BqHGwl.jpg)\n\nAlmost 4km, not bad for an hour outside letting the dog sniff and wee to his heart's content. A few deviations off the beaten track were dead ends, mostly due to recent rains threatening to soak my Ugg boots where marshy areas lay ahead, or access was blocked by puddles bigger than my steps. \n\n![Water on the track](https://i.imgur.com/hTs250j.jpg)\n\nIn part four, we'll create some custom placemark icons in QGIS, and change the basemap into something that looks a little more like a treasure map instead of the boring vanilla view from our original quick base map.\n\n*Continue to...\nPart 4 - Artistic styling in QGIS to create a geocache treasure map _(coming soon)_*\n\n*Go back to...\nPart One - [Using Avenza Maps and QGIS to create custom maps for free treasure hunting](https://steemit.com/geocaching/@smk762/using-avenza-maps-app-to-capture-gps-tracks-for-use-in-qgis-free) \nPart Two - [Hidden treasure  in your local parks:  using Avenza maps to GPS your geocaches](https://steemit.com/geocache/@smk762/part-2-hidden-treasure-in-your-local-parks-using-avenza-maps-to-gps-your-geocaches)*",
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      "body": "![Scrunchy the dog in Canning River Park](https://i.imgur.com/5k6zJc1.jpg)\n\n*Link to part one - [Using Avenza Maps and QGIS to create custom maps for free treasure hunting](https://steemit.com/geocaching/@smk762/using-avenza-maps-app-to-capture-gps-tracks-for-use-in-qgis-free)*\n\n[Geocaching](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocaching) is fun way to spend some time in nature, learn about mapping technology, and find some hidden trinkets left behind by previous travellers. It's a free-to-play, completely immersive, total reality game with real prizes!\n\n![enter image description here](https://i.imgur.com/RwFKHdO.jpg)\n\nIn part 1, we detailed how you can use the free mapping software [QGIS](https://qgis.org/en/site/), and the [Avenza Maps](https://www.avenza.com/avenza-maps/) smartphone app to create your own base map, and use it with your smartphone's GPS.\n\nIn Part 2, we'll explain how to use Avenza maps to capture the path we took walking around the [Canning River Park](https://parks.dpaw.wa.gov.au/park/canning-river), and the coordinates of things we saw on the way. We'll also capture some placemark coordinates for the spots where we hid a few geocaches for future explorers.\n\n![Using the geocaching app](https://www.geocaching.com/play/Content/images/preview-lg.jpg)\n*Using geocaching.com's smartphone app to find a cache*\n\nFirst load the Avenza Maps app (see **[Part One](https://steemit.com/geocaching/@smk762/using-avenza-maps-app-to-capture-gps-tracks-for-use-in-qgis-free)** for install links) on your smartphone. Turn on your phone's GPS, load up the basemap you made in part one, and press the spanner on the top right to access the menu, and select \"Record GPS Tracks\". When your GPS has a lock on your position, it will say \"Ready\" next to the \"play\" triangle, and you can press the triangle to start recording the track, and start walking.\n\n![Canning River map in Avenza Maps app.](https://i.imgur.com/4hNvQSF.jpg)\n\nWhile walking along (and a little way off) the tracks looking for cache spots, we can also capture the location of a few points of interest. Noticing a bit of rubish littering parts of the riverside, and needing somewhere to drop off my dog's smelly droppings, I captured the location of a few rubbish bins by clicking on the \"add placemark\" button on the Avenza map screen. You can also optionally add a description, photo and custom icon.\n\n![Adding a placemark in Avenza](https://i.imgur.com/frHu1Gu.jpg)\n\nA bin probably isn't worth a photo though. Walking a little off the path, toward the rivers edge lots of trees offered branches to hold a small cache safely in place without risking wind, water or muggles dislodging it, and minimal disturbance to the surrounding ecosystem.\n\n![A good tree to hide a cache](https://i.imgur.com/bwSYTRk.jpg)\n\nOnce all caches had been set, and the walk is over, we can stop recording our GPS track by clicking \"Done\" in the Avenza map window. We can also now see where we walked, and where the things we recorded the positions of are on our base map.\n\n![Track and waypoints captured with Avenza Maps](https://i.imgur.com/0vTTYHo.jpg)\n\nIn Part 3, we'll import the track and placemarks into QGIS, and apply some artistic styling to create a custom themed treasure map. \n\n**Checkout the other parts...**\n\nPart One - [Using Avenza Maps and QGIS to create custom maps for free treasure hunting](https://steemit.com/geocaching/@smk762/using-avenza-maps-app-to-capture-gps-tracks-for-use-in-qgis-free) \nPart Three - [Exporting Avenza Maps catured GPS tracks and placemarks into QGIS](https://steemit.com/qgis/@smk762/part-three-exporting-avenza-maps-catured-gps-tracks-and-placemarks-into-qgis)\nPart Four - Artistic styling in QGIS to create a geocache treasure map _(coming soon)_",
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      "body": "![Looking into the forest](https://i.imgur.com/JuUSEu0.jpg)\n\nWe are fortunate to live in an age where we have free access to software allowing accurate location data capture with GPS and the tools to add attribution, run analysis, and output digital base maps we can use on smartphones for future navigation. 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It is also highly extensible though a large library of open source plugins created and maintained by the community offering added functionality.\n\n*Install QGIS* - https://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/download.html\n\n**Treasure Hunt!**\nBelow is an example of how we can use the above software to set up a riverside *[geocache](https://www.geocaching.com/play)*, capture its GPS coordinates using the Avenza app, and then create a custom map in QGIS to help treasure hunters find the riches within 🎁\n\n![Lego man with map and compass](https://i.imgur.com/8Is6Y3X.jpg)\n\n**Creating a quick basemap in QGIS**\n\nOpen a new QGIS project, and select Plugins > Manage and install plugins.\nSearch for and install the [QuickMapServices](https://github.com/nextgis/quickmapservices) plugin (QGIS v3.2) or the [OpenLayers plugin](https://github.com/sourcepole/qgis-openlayers-plugin) (QGIS v2.18)\n\nLook through the plugin menus, and select a basemap layer. 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Leave the title blank and click OK.\n\n![Exporting a basemap in QGIS](https://i.imgur.com/tIUH5F8.jpg)\n\nLook for the \"add new map\" icon, click it and draw a rectangle the size of the print layout canvas, then go to **Project > Export as Image**, set the file type to TIF and save your map image. QGIS will embed coordinate system information into the image file's metadata, which allows it to be displayed in the correct area when we import it in to the Avenza app on our  smartphone and activate the GPS. 🎯  \n\n![enter image description here](https://i.imgur.com/rQF2qgQ.jpg)\n\n**Importing your basemap into Avenza**\nAvenza maps is integrated into Dropbox, which is a convenient place to store your maps and easily share or retrieve them from the cloud. You can also import maps from the device storage, or via a USB cable, a web address, or QR code. 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      "body": "![Looking into the forest](https://i.imgur.com/JuUSEu0.jpg)\n\nWe are fortunate to live in an age where we have free access to software allowing accurate location data capture with GPS and the tools to add attribution, run analysis, and output digital base maps we can use on smartphones for future navigation. Better yet, there is hidden treasure all around us waiting to be found by curious explorers.\n\nThis means we don't have to rely on apps like Google maps / Apple maps recording every move we make 🌍\n\n\n![Avenza maps app](https://www.avenza.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/avenza-maps-iphone-ipad-military-2.jpg)\n**[Avenza maps](https://www.avenza.com/avenza-maps/)** is handy smartphone app which allows the import of custom base map layers, which you can download from the Avenza map store (many free samples are available), or create yourself on a PC using the open source mapping software QGIS.\n\n**Install Avenza maps**\nIOS - https://itunes.apple.com/app/apple-store/id388424049?mt=8\nAndroid - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Avenza\n\n**Download a local basemap**\nA range of maps are available at https://www.avenzamaps.com/maps/search.html\nSome are free, and most are much cheaper than the paper equivalent.\n\nAlternatively you can easily make a custom map for your area of interest using QGIS and OpenStreetMap (OSM) layers.\n\n![QGIS mapping software](https://webgeodatavore.com/images/qgis-add-remote-geojson.gif)\n\n**[QGIS](https://qgis.org/en/site/)** is a powerful tool which grants you the ability to create maps, compare features, calculate statistics, and perform geoprocessing tasks on spatial datasets. It is also highly extensible though a large library of open source plugins created and maintained by the community offering added functionality.\n\n*Install QGIS* - https://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/download.html\n\n**Treasure Hunt!**\nBelow is an example of how we can use the above software to set up a riverside *[geocache](https://www.geocaching.com/play)*, capture its GPS coordinates using the Avenza app, and then create a custom map in QGIS to help treasure hunters find the riches within 🎁\n\n![Lego man with map and compass](https://i.imgur.com/8Is6Y3X.jpg)\n\n**Creating a quick basemap in QGIS**\n\nOpen a new QGIS project, and select Plugins > Manage and install plugins.\nSearch for and install the [QuickMapServices](https://github.com/nextgis/quickmapservices) plugin (QGIS v3.2) or the [OpenLayers plugin](https://github.com/sourcepole/qgis-openlayers-plugin) (QGIS v2.18)\n\nLook through the plugin menus, and select a basemap layer. I\"ll use *OSM Standard* from the Web> QuickMapServices>OSM menu, and have positioned it over a section of the [Canning River Park](https://parks.dpaw.wa.gov.au/park/canning-river) in Perth, Western Australia. It's a great spot for kayaking, cycling, and walking your dog. There are also many places along the river to hide our treasures 🍄\n\n![\"Canning River to Deep Water Point\", painting by Peter Hyatt](https://finishingtouchgallery.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/[email protected])\nCredit: *[Canning River to Deep Water Point\", by Peter Hyatt](https://finishingtouchgallery.com.au/product/canning-river-deep-water-point/)* \n\nOnce you've loaded a basemap and moved it into position, go to **Project > New Print Layout**. Leave the title blank and click OK.\n\n![Exporting a basemap in QGIS](https://i.imgur.com/tIUH5F8.jpg)\n\nLook for the \"add new map\" icon, click it and draw a rectangle the size of the print layout canvas, then go to **Project > Export as Image**, set the file type to TIF and save your map image. QGIS will embed coordinate system information into the image file's metadata, which allows it to be displayed in the correct area when we import it in to the Avenza app on our  smartphone and activate the GPS. 🎯  \n\n![enter image description here](https://i.imgur.com/rQF2qgQ.jpg)\n\n**Importing your basemap into Avenza**\nAvenza maps is integrated into Dropbox, which is a convenient place to store your maps and easily share or retrieve them from the cloud. You can also import maps from the device storage, or via a USB cable, a web address, or QR code. 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      "body": "![Scrunchy the dog in Canning River Park](https://i.imgur.com/5k6zJc1.jpg)\n\n*Link to part one - [Using Avenza Maps and QGIS to create custom maps for free treasure hunting](https://steemit.com/geocaching/@smk762/using-avenza-maps-app-to-capture-gps-tracks-for-use-in-qgis-free)*\n\n[Geocaching](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocaching) is fun way to spend some time in nature, learn about mapping technology, and find some hidden trinkets left behind by previous travellers. It's a free-to-play, completely immersive, total reality game with real prizes!\n\n![enter image description here](https://i.imgur.com/RwFKHdO.jpg)\n\nIn part 1, we detailed how you can use the free mapping software [QGIS](https://qgis.org/en/site/), and the [Avenza Maps](https://www.avenza.com/avenza-maps/) smartphone app to create your own base map, and use it with your smartphone's GPS.\n\nIn Part 2, we'll explain how to use Avenza maps to capture the path we took walking around the [Canning River Park](https://parks.dpaw.wa.gov.au/park/canning-river), and the coordinates of things we saw on the way. We'll also capture some placemark coordinates for the spots where we hid a few geocaches for future explorers.\n\n![Using the geocaching app](https://www.geocaching.com/play/Content/images/preview-lg.jpg)\n*Using geocaching.com's smartphone app to find a cache*\n\nFirst load the Avenza Maps app (see **[Part One](https://steemit.com/geocaching/@smk762/using-avenza-maps-app-to-capture-gps-tracks-for-use-in-qgis-free)** for install links) on your smartphone. Turn on your phone's GPS, load up the basemap you made in part one, and press the spanner on the top right to access the menu, and select \"Record GPS Tracks\". When your GPS has a lock on your position, it will say \"Ready\" next to the \"play\" triangle, and you can press the triangle to start recording the track, and start walking.\n\n![Canning River map in Avenza Maps app.](https://i.imgur.com/4hNvQSF.jpg)\n\nWhile walking along (and a little way off) the tracks looking for cache spots, we can also capture the location of a few points of interest. Noticing a bit of rubish littering parts of the riverside, and needing somewhere to drop off my dog's smelly droppings, I captured the location of a few rubbish bins by clicking on the \"add placemark\" button on the Avenza map screen. You can also optionally add a description, photo and custom icon.\n\n![Adding a placemark in Avenza](https://i.imgur.com/frHu1Gu.jpg)\n\nA bin probably isn't worth a photo though. Walking a little off the path, toward the rivers edge lots of trees offered branches to hold a small cache safely in place without risking wind, water or muggles dislodging it, and minimal disturbance to the surrounding ecosystem.\n\n![A good tree to hide a cache](https://i.imgur.com/bwSYTRk.jpg)\n\nOnce all caches had been set, and the walk is over, we can stop recording our GPS track by clicking \"Done\" in the Avenza map window. We can also now see where we walked, and where the things we recorded the positions of are on our base map.\n\n![Track and waypoints captured with Avenza Maps](https://i.imgur.com/0vTTYHo.jpg)\n\nIn Part 3, we'll import the track and placemarks into QGIS, and apply some artistic styling to create a custom themed treasure map. \n\n**Checkout the other parts...**\n\nPart One - [Using Avenza Maps and QGIS to create custom maps for free treasure hunting](https://steemit.com/geocaching/@smk762/using-avenza-maps-app-to-capture-gps-tracks-for-use-in-qgis-free) \nPart Three - [Exporting Avenza Maps catured GPS tracks and placemarks into QGIS](https://steemit.com/qgis/@smk762/part-three-exporting-avenza-maps-catured-gps-tracks-and-placemarks-into-qgis)\nPart Four - Artistic styling in QGIS to create a geocache treasure map _(coming soon)_",
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      "body": "*Link to earlier parts:\n [Part One - Using Avenza Maps and QGIS to create custom maps for free treasure hunting](https://steemit.com/geocaching/@smk762/using-avenza-maps-app-to-capture-gps-tracks-for-use-in-qgis-free)\n [Part Two -  Hidden treasure  in your local parks:  using Avenza maps to GPS your geocaches](https://steemit.com/geocache/@smk762/part-2-hidden-treasure-in-your-local-parks-using-avenza-maps-to-gps-your-geocaches)*\n \n ![A geocache box hidden under some pine cones](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/GeoCache_hidden_Under_Pine_Cones.jpg)\n \nIn the previous two articles, we used QGIS to create a simple basemap of a local park, imported the map into the Avenza mapping app on our smartphone, and used our GPS to record our walk along the riverside, and the location of a few geocaches we hid nearby.\n\nNow we'll pull that GPS information back into QGIS, where we have the tools to change the theme of the map into something a little more creative. Open the Avenza Maps app on your smartphone, and load the basemap we created in step one, and added the GPS track and placemarks to in part two. Follow the steps in the image below to export the track and placemarks 👇\n\n![Exporting Avenza map layers](https://i.imgur.com/Uo5xd5S.jpg)\n\nI've used KML as the export format, because it's easy to display in both QGIS and Google Earth, and it's available on the free license of Avenza Maps (shapefiles are not, but we can convert the KML in QGIS). You can export to device storage, drop box or email - whatever is most convenient.\n\nOnce you've copied the KML file onto your PC, open QGIS and load it up over the base layer created in  [Part One](https://steemit.com/geocaching/@smk762/using-avenza-maps-app-to-capture-gps-tracks-for-use-in-qgis-free)\n\nWe'll convert the KML to a shapefile, because that allows us a few more options for styling in part four. We'll also convert to a projected coordinate system, so we can measure the distance traveled while walking the GPS track along the river. Projected coordinate systems like the Map Grid of Australia (MGA) are measured in meters, and broken into different zone numbers. \n\n![Converting KML file to shapefile in QGIS](https://i.imgur.com/e377OSV.jpg)\n\nTo measure our track, we can use the `Add geometry attributes` tool. Just follow the images below, and it will calculate the distance of our track in meters.\n\n![enter image description here](https://i.imgur.com/DaRw3mt.jpg)\n\nClose the tool once completed, and you should see a layer called \"added geom info\". Right click on it and select \"open attribute table\".  Scroll right and in the last column, it will show you the distance traveled in meters for the GPS track.\n\n![GPS track of walk around Canning River Park](https://i.imgur.com/7BqHGwl.jpg)\n\nAlmost 4km, not bad for an hour outside letting the dog sniff and wee to his heart's content. A few deviations off the beaten track were dead ends, mostly due to recent rains threatening to soak my Ugg boots where marshy areas lay ahead, or access was blocked by puddles bigger than my steps. \n\n![Water on the track](https://i.imgur.com/hTs250j.jpg)\n\nIn part four, we'll create some custom placemark icons in QGIS, and change the basemap into something that looks a little more like a treasure map instead of the boring vanilla view from our original quick base map.\n\n*Continue to...\nPart 4 - Artistic styling in QGIS to create a geocache treasure map _(coming soon)_*\n\n*Go back to...\nPart One - [Using Avenza Maps and QGIS to create custom maps for free treasure hunting](https://steemit.com/geocaching/@smk762/using-avenza-maps-app-to-capture-gps-tracks-for-use-in-qgis-free) \nPart Two - [Hidden treasure  in your local parks:  using Avenza maps to GPS your geocaches](https://steemit.com/geocache/@smk762/part-2-hidden-treasure-in-your-local-parks-using-avenza-maps-to-gps-your-geocaches)*",
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