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Mastering Geospatial Development with QGIS 3.x

Mastering Geospatial Development with QGIS 3.x

By : Islam, Miles, Kurt Menke, GISP, Smith Jr., GISP, Pirelli, Van Hoesen, GISP
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Mastering Geospatial Development with QGIS 3.x

Mastering Geospatial Development with QGIS 3.x

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By: Islam, Miles, Kurt Menke, GISP, Smith Jr., GISP, Pirelli, Van Hoesen, GISP

Overview of this book

QGIS is an open source solution to GIS and widely used by GIS professionals all over the world. It is the leading alternative to proprietary GIS software. Although QGIS is described as intuitive, it is also, by default, complex. Knowing which tools to use and how to apply them is essential to producing valuable deliverables on time. Starting with a refresher on the QGIS basics and getting you acquainted with the latest QGIS 3.6 updates, this book will take you all the way through to teaching you how to create a spatial database and a GeoPackage. Next, you will learn how to style raster and vector data by choosing and managing different colors. The book will then focus on processing raster and vector data. You will be then taught advanced applications, such as creating and editing vector data. Along with that, you will also learn about the newly updated Processing Toolbox, which will help you develop the advanced data visualizations. The book will then explain to you the graphic modeler, how to create QGIS plugins with PyQGIS, and how to integrate Python analysis scripts with QGIS. By the end of the book, you will understand how to work with all aspects of QGIS and will be ready to use it for any type of GIS work.
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Section 1: Introduction
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Section 2: Getting Started
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Section 3: Diving Deeper
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Section 4: Becoming a Master

The power of geometry generators

Geometry generators allow us to modify and create geometries. Using expression engines, they allow us to modify or generate geometry on the fly and to have different geometries stacked together, allowing us to make creating complex rendering an easy and feasible task. They can be used to perform different operations on point, line, and polygon data, and using the expression engine, we can generate advanced symbology.

Now, we will use the dhaka_gazipur.shp file to see some of the geometry generators you can use with polygon data:

This shapefile has two polygons. Suppose that we want to get the geometric center of these two polygons. This can be very easily achieved using centroid($geometry) as an expression for Geometry generator. To do this, we first click on Open the Layer Styling panel  in the Layers panel. This will open the...

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