Anita Graser - Learning QGIS 2.0
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This book takes you through every stage you need to create superb maps using QGIS 2.0 - from installation on your favorite OS to data editing and spatial analysis right through to designing your print maps.
Overview
- Load and visualize vector and raster data
- Create and edit spatial data and perform spatial analysis
- Construct great maps and print them
In Detail
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 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.
What you will learn from this book
- Installing QGIS
- Getting comfortable with the QGIS user interface
- Loading vector and raster data from files, databases, and web services
- Creating, editing, and visualizing spatial data
- Performing geoprocessing tasks
- Automating geoprocessing and spatial analysis tasks
- Creating advanced cartographic output
- Designing great print maps
Approach
A short book with a lot of hands-on examples to help you learn in a practical way.
Who this book is written 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.
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Anita Graser studied at FH Wr. Neustadt, Austria, where she graduated with a Masters 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.
Werner Macho completed his Masters 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 Masters 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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Welcome to Learning QGIS 2.0 . This book aims to introduce you to QGIS 2 and how to perform core geospatial tasks using this popular open source GIS. It takes you through five chapters, from QGIS installation and setup in the first chapter, to the essentials of viewing spatial data in the second chapter. The third chapter covers data creation and editing, followed by the fourth chapter, which offers an introduction to performing spatial analysis in QGIS. In the final chapter, you will learn how to create great maps and how to prepare them for print.
, Getting Started with QGIS , covers the installation and configuration of QGIS. We will also get to know the user interface and how to customize it. By the end of this chapter, you will have QGIS running on your machine and be ready to start with the tutorials.
, Viewing Spatial Data , covers how to view spatial data from different data sources. QGIS supports many file and database formats as well as OGC web services. We will first see how we can load layers from these different data sources. Then, we will look into the basics of styling both vector and raster layers and will create our first map. We will finish this chapter with an example for loading background maps from online services.
, Data Creation and Editing , covers the creation of new vector layers. Then, we will cover how to select features and take measurements before we continue with editing feature geometries and attributes. We will then reproject vector and raster data and learn how to convert between different file formats before we end this chapter with joining data from text files and spreadsheets to our spatial data.
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