Key Features

• Explore and create time-based visualizations and construct interactive maps
• Maximize your use of the QGIS beneficial properties, plugins and toolbox automation
• Packed with plenty of pattern datasets to allow a greater figuring out of the code

Book Description

QGIS is a basic, cross-platform computer geographic info procedure used to make maps and research spatial info. QGIS permits clients to appreciate, query, interpret, and visualize spatial information in lots of ways in which display relationships, styles, and developments within the type of maps. This publication is a suite of easy to complicated ideas which are wanted in daily geospatial paintings, and exhibits tips to accomplish them with QGIS. you'll commence by means of knowing the different sorts of knowledge administration innovations, in addition to how info exploration works. you'll then practice vintage vector and raster research with QGIS, except growing time-based visualizations. ultimately, you are going to methods to create interactive and visually attractive maps with customized cartography. via the top of this e-book, you have all of the precious wisdom to deal with spatial facts administration, exploration, and visualization projects in QGIS.

What you'll learn

• Import and export universal difficult spatial info formats
• Perform vintage vector and raster research with QGIS
• Utilize spatial databases and knowledge administration tools
• Use and create geographic net providers and maps
• Explore and create time-based visualizations
• Perform community construction and routing analysis
• Extend QGIS services with well known plugins and toolbox automation
• Make appealing and certain maps with personalized cartography

About the Author

Alex Mandel is a geospatial scientist who has a PhD in geography and greater than 12 years of expertise in using GIS to quite a few initiatives. He has additionally taught classes on GIS, geospatial programming, and Geoweb.

Victor Olaya Ferrero is a GIS developer. he's the author and major developer of the QGIS Processing Framework. he's additionally the writer of Sistemas de Informacion Geografica, a loose ebook in regards to the basics of GIS.

Anita Graser studied geomatics on the college of technologies Wiener Neustadt, Austria, from the place she graduated with a master's measure in 2010. in the course of her learn, she won hands-on adventure within the fields of geo-marketing and transportation learn. considering the fact that 2007, she has been operating as a geographic info method (GIS) specialist with the dynamic transportation structures crew on the Austrian Institute of expertise (AIT), the place she makes a speciality of interpreting and visualizing spatio-temporal data.

Anita serves at the OSGeo board of administrators and the QGIS undertaking steerage committee. She has been operating with GIS considering that 2005, offers QGIS education classes, and writes a well-liked web publication on open resource GIS at anitagraser.com.

Alexander Bruy is a GFOSS suggest and open resource developer engaged on the QGIS venture. He has additionally maintained a suite of his personal open resource tasks. He has been operating with QGIS when you consider that 2006, and now he's an OSGeo constitution member and QGIS middle developer. he's additionally the writer of QGIS by means of instance, Packt Publishing.

Alexander is presently a contract GIS developer and works for varied businesses worldwide.

Table of Contents

1. Data enter and Output
2. Data Management
3. Common facts Preprocessing Steps
4. Data Exploration
5. Classic Vector Analysis
6. Network Analysis
7. Raster research I
8. Raster research II
9. QGIS and the Web
10. Cartography Tips
11. Extending QGIS
12. Up and Coming