Skip to main content

Getting Started

Welcome to FilterMate! These tutorials will help you become productive quickly.

Tutorials in This Section​

Quick Start​

Time: 5 minutes

Learn the essential workflow:

  • Opening FilterMate and selecting layers
  • Creating your first attribute filter
  • Understanding backend selection
  • Exporting filtered results

Your First Filter​

Time: 10-15 minutes

Complete step-by-step tutorial:

  • Setting up a geometric filter
  • Using buffer operations
  • Working with spatial predicates
  • Reviewing and exporting results

Before You Start​

Make sure you have:

  • ✅ QGIS 3.x installed
  • ✅ FilterMate plugin installed (Installation Guide)
  • ✅ Vector layer loaded in your project

Performance Tips​

For best results with large datasets:

  • 📦 Medium datasets (<50k features): Spatialite/OGR work well
  • ⚡ Large datasets (>50k features): Install psycopg2 for PostgreSQL support
  • 🗄️ Very large datasets (>1M features): Use PostGIS layers

Video Tutorial​

Prefer video learning? Watch our complete walkthrough:

FilterMate Demo

Next Steps​

After completing these tutorials:

  1. Interface Overview - Explore all UI components
  2. Filtering Basics - Master attribute filtering
  3. Geometric Filtering - Advanced spatial operations
  4. Backends Overview - Understand performance optimization
Need Help?

Check the Troubleshooting Guide or visit GitHub Issues.