Learning QGIS 2.0
This book takes you through every stage you need to create superb maps using QGIS 2.0 'AEi from installation on your favorite OS to data editing and spatial analysis right through to designing your print maps.
Published on 17. September 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
110 pages
978-1-78216-748-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book takes you through every stage you need to create superb maps using QGIS 2.0 'AEi from installation on your favorite OS to data editing and spatial analysis right through to designing your print maps.
Key Features
Load and visualize vector and raster data
Create and edit spatial data and perform spatial analysis
Construct great maps and print them
Book DescriptionQGIS 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.What you will learn
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
Who this book is forThis 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.
Key Features
Load and visualize vector and raster data
Create and edit spatial data and perform spatial analysis
Construct great maps and print them
Book DescriptionQGIS 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.What you will learn
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
Who this book is forThis 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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Language
English
Place of publication
Birmingham
United Kingdom
Target group
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 191 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
223 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78216-748-8 (9781782167488)
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Anita Graser
Learning QGIS 2.0
This book takes you through every stage you need to create superb maps using QGIS 2.0 'AEi from installation on your favorite OS to data editing and spatial analysis right through to designing your print maps.
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Anita Graser is a spatial data scientist, open source GIS advocate, and author with a background in geographic information science. She is currently working with the Center for Mobility Systems at the Austrian Institute of Technology in Vienna and teaching QGIS classes at UNIGIS Salzburg. She serves on the QGIS project steering committee. and has published several books about QGIS. Furthermore, she develops tools, such as the Time Manager plugin for QGIS.
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