QGIS by Example: Leverage the Power of Qgis in Real-world Applications to Become a Powerful User in Cartography and Gis Analysis - Softcover

Bruy, Alexander; Svidzinska, Daria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1782174672 ISBN 13: 9781782174677

Verlag: Packt Pub Ltd, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

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

Who This Book Is For

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 QGIS's functionality

In Detail

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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Reseña del editor

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.

Biografía del autor

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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Packt Pub Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1782174672
• ISBN 13: 9781782174677
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 296
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar