QGIS By Example

by Alexander Bruy, Daria Svidzinska

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781782175131
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	06/29/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	316
File size:	19 MB
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About the Author

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.