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Create a heatmap from points

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Create a heatmap from points

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- [Instructor] A heat map is a way to show the intensity of points over a given area. It's a way of making sense of a large amount of point data within your map. First, let's add some points to our current map. Under Layer, Add Layer, Add Vector Layer. Click on Delimited Text. Browse to the incidents.csv, make sure that the X field is longitude, or long, and the Y is lat, or latitude. It is in 4326, lat/long 84. And we'll click Add. Close, and there's all our points that make up all the crime incidents for this city. So, what we'd like to do is make a heat map out of this. Now, the nice thing about GQIS is that you can just style your point layer, to turn it into a heat map dynamically. So, let's just double-click on Incidents. And the first thing we're going to do is we're going to change the symbol definition from Single symbol to Heat map. Once you do that, the color ramp defaults to a white to black, sort of…

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