Learning QGIS, 3rd Edition

The latest guide on using QGIS to create great maps and perform geo-processing tasks with ease

About This Book

• Learn how to work with various data and create beautiful maps using this easy-to-follow guide
• Give a touch of professionalism to your maps both for functionality and look and feel with the help of this practical guide
• A progressive hands-on guide that builds on a geo-spatial data and adds more reactive maps by using geometry tools

Who This Book Is For

This book is great for users, developers, and consultants who know the basic functions and processes of GIS but want to learn to use QGIS to analyze geospatial data and create rich mapping applications. If you want to take advantage of the latest wide range of functionalities that QGIS offers, then this is the book for you.

What You Will Learn

• Install QGIS and get familiar with the user interface
• Load vector and raster data from files, databases, and web services
• Create, visualize, and edit spatial data
• Perform geoprocessing tasks and automate them
• Create advanced cartographic outputs
• Design great print maps
• Expand QGIS using Python

In Detail

This book will teach how to get up and running with QGIS and provides the latest information on implementing QGIS in interactive maps. We start off by installing QGIS 5 and then quickly move on to working with spatial data. Next we’ll get to grips with analyzing various data to create insightful maps rastor and vector data. After that, we’ll start actually creating maps and presenting these maps online. Finally, we end with extending QGIS with Python.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Getting Started with QGIS
Chapter 2. Viewing Spatial Data
Chapter 3. Data Creation and Editing
Chapter 4. Spatial Analysis
Chapter 5. Creating Great Maps
Chapter 6. Extending QGIS with Python