I happened upon QGIS while browsing the blog of the Open Source School. Looks like this is THE Open Source GIS software to have. A couple of years ago, I found this blog when I was figuring out how to setup Xibo digital signage. I downloaded the Windows 64-bit version of QGIS yesterday and then couldn't figure out how to use the datasets that were downloaded with the install.
Today, I went to the Sask Geological Survey and found the Geological Atlas of Saskatchewan. I selected some data on the map and then clicked on the download icon which lets you download a zip file of the data:
I unzipped the file and then loaded vector layers into QGIS. I noticed there were .shp file extensions, so I filtered by SHP (shape) files. The following map was exported from QGIS to a PNG. I chose highways, waterbodies, lat/long and Lithoprobe seismic lines:
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