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Leverage the power of QGIS in real-world applications to become a powerful user in cartography and GIS analysis
About This Book- Load and visualize spatial data, create astonishing maps and publish them online, and effectively automate your work with the help of QGIS processing framework
- Learn about different GIS analysis through detailed real-world examples
- An example-based guide to solve most common mapping and analysis tasks using real-world datasets
If you are a beginner or an intermediate GIS user, this book is for you. It is ideal for practitioners, data analysts, and application developers who have very little or no familiarity with geospatial data and software.
What You Will Learn- Install QGIS and integrate your data into a spatial database to improve data management, speedup access, and processing
- Design beautiful and informative print maps for a better representation of your data and analysis results
- Publish your maps on the Internet with the QGIS Cloud hosting
- Use the Heatmap plugin and hexagonal grids to find hot regions by density analysis
- Visualize your data in 3D and check object visibility to find the most scenic views
- Perform suitability analysis to find places that meet your requirements and learn how to use spatial operations
- Become more productive with the Processing framework by using models and scripts to automate repetitive and complex tasks
- Develop your own Python plugin to extend QGISs functionality
QGIS is a leading user-friendly, cross-platform, open source, desktop geographic information system (GIS). It provides many useful capabilities and features and their number is continuously growing. More and more private users and companies choose QGIS as their primary GIS software because it is very easy to use, feature-rich, extensible, and has a big and constantly growing community.
This book guides you from QGIS installation through data loading, and preparation to performing most common GIS analyses. You will perform different types of GIS analyses including density, visibility, and suitability analysis on practical, real-world data. Finally, you will learn how to become more productive and automate your everyday work with the help of the QGIS Processing framework and by developing your own Python plugins.
By the end of this book, you will have all the necessary knowledge about handling and analyzing spatial data.
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Alexander Bruy
Daria Svidzinska
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Alexander Bruy is a GFOSS advocate and an open source software developer working on the QGIS project. He also maintains a collection of his personal open source projects. He has been working with QGIS since 2006. Now, he is an OSGeo Charter member and QGIS core developer. Currently, Alexander is a freelance GIS developer and works for companies worldwide.
Daria Svidzinska is an associate professor at the physical geography and geoecology department of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine. From there, she earned a PhD in geography in 2007. Since then, she has been using FOSS GIS for her research in landscape ecology and spatial planning studies. For the past 5 years, she has been actively involved in academic and professional FOSS GIS teaching and training. In 2014, together with her colleague Alexander Bruy, Daria joined the Geo for All initiative and established an ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS research and education lab at her department (http://lab.osgeo.org.ua/). Its main objective is to promote and enhance education, research, and services in the field of open geospatial science and applications.
I would like to thank my coauthor, Alexander Bruy, for his patience, support, and encouragement. I also thank our reviewers, Werner Macho and Nyall Dawson, for their valuable feedback, and the whole editorial team for making the writing process smooth and efficient.
Special thanks goes to my dear mother for patiently putting up with my long working hours, giving me the inspiration and courage to rise above obstacles and constraints.
Nyall Dawson is a core developer of QGIS, responsible for thousands of contributions spanning the print composer, symbology, and labeling improvements. He has a master's degree in geospatial information, and is passionate about quality cartography and effective visual presentation of information.
He runs a freelance development consultancy, which focuses on targeted development of QGIS's features. He posts regular updates about his QGIS development work on his blog, which you can find at http://nyalldawson.net.
Werner Macho is an open source software developer working on the QGIS project. After graduating from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna, Austria, he worked some time there as a scientist. Due to his work on QGIS, he got an opportunity to work for Kartoza in South Africa, but then he went back to his roots and is currently working in the area of water management in Austria. Werner has been working on QGIS since 2007, when he searched for an open source GIS tool to aid his work in floodwater protection plans.
Still, his private computer remains a restricted zone for proprietary software, as he strongly believes in the power of open source and the GPL.
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Welcome to QGIS By Example . This book will help you understand the capabilities of QGIS, show you how to work with spatial data and perform the most common analyses, and bring your productivity to a new level with the Processing framework.
QGIS is a very popular and user-friendly open source desktop GIS. It provides many useful capabilities and features and their number is continuously growing. It supports a wide range of raster and vector formats, as well as databases and OGC services. It also integrates seamlessly with other FOSSGIS applications. More and more users all over the world choose QGIS as their primary GIS software.
The book will introduce QGIS 2.8.x, and show you how to properly prepare your data for comfortable work, design beautiful maps, and share them with others. It will also show you how to perform different types of analysis and interpret their results. In the final chapters, you will learn how to become more productive by automating repetitive tasks with the QGIS Processing framework, and how to extend the QGIS functionality by developing a Python plugin.
, Handling Your Data , covers the installation of QGIS, introduces its user interface, and shows you how to customize it. In this chapter, you also get to know how to load data from different sources and assemble it in a spatial database.
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