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Learning QGIS 2.0
Learning QGIS 2.0
Learning QGIS 2.0
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Learning QGIS 2.0

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QGIS is a user friendly open source geographic information system (GIS) that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows. The popularity of open source geographic information systems and QGIS in particular has been growing rapidly over the last few years. More and more companies and institutions are adopting QGIS and even switching to QGIS as their main GIS.

Learning QGIS 2.0 is a practical, hands-on guide that provides you with clear, step-by-step exercises that will help you to apply your GIS knowledge to QGIS. Containing a number of clear, practical exercises, this book will introduce you to working with QGIS, quickly and painlessly. If you want to take advantage of the wide range of functionalities that QGIS offers, then this is the book for you.

This book takes you from installing and configuring QGIS, through handling spatial data to creating great maps. You will learn how to load and visualize existing spatial data and how to create data from scratch. You will perform common geoprocessing and spatial analysis tasks and automate them. We will cover how to achieve great cartographic output and print maps. You will learn everything you need to know to handle spatial data management, processing, and visualization tasks in QGIS.

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A short book with a lot of hands-on examples to help you learn in a practical way.

Who this book is for

This book is great for users, developers, and consultants who know the basic functions and processes of a GIS but want to know how to use QGIS to achieve the results they are used to a full-fledged GIS.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateSep 17, 2013
ISBN9781783280001
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    Great introduction to a very powerful geospatial information toolkit, QGIS. The book is straightforward, and contains a series of tutorials that present an overview of day to day uses of QGIS.The author, Anita Graser, is very active in the free/open source geospatial community.

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Learning QGIS 2.0

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Preface

What this book covers

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Errata

Piracy

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1. Getting Started with QGIS

Installing QGIS

Installing on Windows

Installing on Ubuntu

Running QGIS for the first time

Introducing the QGIS user interface

Summary

2. Viewing Spatial Data

Loading vector data from files

Dealing with coordinate reference systems

Loading raster files

Georeferencing raster maps

Loading data from databases

Loading data from web services

Styling raster layers

Styling vector layers

Creating point styles – an example of an airport style

Creating line styles – an example of river or road styles

Creating polygon styles – an example of a landmass style

Loading background maps

Summary

3. Data Creation and Editing

Creating new vector layers

Working with feature selection tools

Editing vector geometries

Using the measuring tools

Editing attributes

Reprojecting and converting vector and raster data

Joining tabular data

Summary

4. Spatial Analysis

Clipping rasters

Analyzing elevation / terrain data

Raster calculator

Converting between rasters and vectors

Accessing raster and vector layer statistics

Creating a heatmap from points

Vector geoprocessing with Processing

Identifying features in the proximity of others

Raster sampling at point locations

Mapping density with hexagonal grids

Calculating area shares within a region

Automated geoprocessing with the graphical modeler

Summary

5. Creating Great Maps

Advanced vector styling

Creating a graduated style with size-scaling

Using categorized styles

Creating a rule-based style for road layers

Labeling

Designing print maps

Summary

Index

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About the Author

Anita Graser studied at FH Wr. Neustadt, Austria, where she graduated with a Master’s degree in Geomatics in 2010. During her studies, she acquired hands-on experience in the fields of geomarketing and transportation research. Since 2007, Anita has been working as a geographic information systems (GIS) expert with the Dynamic Transportation Systems group at the Austrian Institute of Technology, where she focuses on analyzing and visualizing spatio-temporal data and research project management. Anita is an OSGeo Charter member and QGIS team member. She has been working with GIS since 2005, and is writing a popular blog on open source GIS at anitagraser.com.

Special thanks go to Werner Macho and Nathan Woodrow for their valuable feedback and support while writing this book. I would also like to thank my family, partner, and coworkers for their support and encouragement. And of course, I want to thank the whole QGIS team for their continued effort to provide the best open source GIS experience possible.

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Werner Macho completed his Master’s degree at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria. There he spent a long period of time as a scientist working on a range of topics. Currently, he is completing his second Master’s degree in GIS Science at the University of Salzburg, Austria, while working at linfiniti.com in Swellendam, South Africa. Werner has been working with QGIS since 2007, when he searched for an open source GIS tool to aid in his work on floodwater protection plans. In the QGIS Project, he holds the position of Translation Team Leader, managing the translation of more than 45 languages. Werner also banned proprietary stuff from his computer in 1995, and he strongly believes in the power of coding open source and the GPL.

Nathan Woodrow is an open source developer working on the QGIS project, he also maintains a collection of his own personal open source projects. Nathan has been a core developer and an active member of the QGIS community for the last three years. Nathan maintains a QGIS blog at http://nathanw.net which showcases some of the upcoming features in QGIS, as well as tips and tricks for developers and users.

Nathan currently works for Digital Mapping Solutions (DMS) Australia, as a Technical Consultant and QGIS Specialist. At DMS Nathan provides support, training, custom development, and bug fixing for QGIS.

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