QGIS: Becoming a GIS Power User: Master data management, visualization, and spatial analysis techniques in QGIS and become a GIS power user - Softcover

Mearns, Ben; Mandel, Alex; Bruy, Alexander

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1788299728 ISBN 13: 9781788299725

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

Master data management, visualization, and spatial analysis techniques in QGIS and become a GIS power user

About This Book

• Learn how to work with various types of 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
• This progressive, hands-on guide builds on a geo-spatial data and adds more reactive maps using geometry tools.

Who This Book Is For

If you are a user, developer, or consultant and want to know how to use QGIS to achieve the results you are used to from other types of GIS, then this learning path is for you. You are expected to be comfortable with core GIS concepts. This Learning Path will make you an expert with QGIS by showing you how to develop more complex, layered map applications. It will launch you to the next level of GIS users.

What You Will Learn

• Create your first map by styling both vector and raster layers from different data sources
• Use parameters such as precipitation, relative humidity, and temperature to predict the vulnerability of fields and crops to mildew
• Re-project vector and raster data and see how to convert between different style formats
• Use a mix of web services to provide a collaborative data system
• Use raster analysis and a model automation tool to model the physical conditions for hydrological analysis
• Get the most out of the cartographic tools to in QGIS to reveal the advanced tips and tricks of cartography

In Detail

The first module Learning QGIS, Third edition covers the installation and configuration of QGIS. You'll become a master in data creation and editing, and creating great maps. By the end of this module, you'll be able to extend QGIS with Python, getting in-depth with developing custom tools for the Processing Toolbox.

The second module QGIS Blueprints gives you an overview of the application types and the technical aspects along with few examples from the digital humanities. After estimating unknown values using interpolation methods and demonstrating visualization and analytical techniques, the module ends by creating an editable and data-rich map for the discovery of community information.

The third module QGIS 2 Cookbook covers data input and output with special instructions for trickier formats. Later, we dive into exploring data, data management, and preprocessing steps to cut your data to just the important areas. At the end of this module, you will dive into the methods for analyzing routes and networks, and learn how to take QGIS beyond the out-of-the-box features with plug-ins, customization, and add-on tools.

This Learning Path combines some of the best that Packt has to offer in one complete, curated package. It includes content from the following Packt products:

• Learning QGIS, Third Edition by Anita Graser
• QGIS Blueprints by Ben Mearns
• QGIS 2 Cookbook by Alex Mandel, Victor Olaya Ferrero, Anita Graser, Alexander Bruy

Style and approach

This Learning Path will get you up and running with QGIS. We start off with an introduction to QGIS and create maps and plugins. Then, we will guide you through Blueprints for geographic web applications, each of which will teach you a different feature by boiling down a complex workflow into steps you can follow. Finally, you'll turn your attention to becoming a QGIS power user and master data management, visualization, and spatial analysis techniques of QGIS.

About this title

About the Author

Anita Graser

Anita Graser studied geomatics at the University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt, Austria, from where she graduated with a master's degree in 2010. During her studies, she gained hands-on experience in the fields of geo-marketing and transportation research. Since 2007, she has been working as a geographic information systems (GIS) expert with the dynamic transportation systems group at the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT), where she focuses on analyzing and visualizing spatio-temporal data. Anita serves on the OSGeo board of directors and the QGIS project steering committee. She has been working with GIS since 2005, provides QGIS training courses, and writes a popular blog on open source GIS at anitagraser.com.

Ben Mearns

Ben Mearns lives in Philly, PA, where he consults, teaches, advises, speaks, and creates geographical information. In private practice, he has previously been the lead geospatial information consultant and instructor on GIS for natural resource management at the University of Delaware. He has held other GIS and data positions at the Cartographic Modeling Lab at the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Macalester College.

Alex Mandel

Alex Mandel is a geospatial scientist who has a PhD in geography and more than 12 years of experience in applying GIS to a variety of projects. He has also taught courses on GIS, geospatial programming, and Geoweb.

Victor Olaya Ferrero

Victor Olaya Ferrero is a GIS developer. He is the creator and main developer of the QGIS Processing Framework. He is also the author of Sistemas de Informacion Geografica, a free book about the fundamentals of GIS.

Alexander Bruy

Alexander Bruy is a GFOSS advocate and open source developer working on the QGIS project. He has also maintained a collection of his own open source projects. He has been working with QGIS since 2006, and now he is an OSGeo charter member and QGIS core developer. He is also the author of QGIS By Example, Packt Publishing. Alexander is currently a freelance GIS developer and works for various companies worldwide.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1788299728
• ISBN 13: 9781788299725
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 818