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You're reading from Learn QGIS Your step-by-step guide to the fundamental of QGIS 3.4

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788997423

Length 272 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

QGIS

Concepts

Geospatial Analysis

Authors (2):

Anita Graser

Andrew Cutts

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Table of Contents (8) Chapters

Preface

1. Where Do I Start? FREE CHAPTER

2. Data Creation and Editing

3. Visualizing Data

4. Creating Great Maps

5. Spatial Analysis

6. Extending QGIS with Python

7. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Styling data

We are going to style both Raster and Vector data. QGIS 3 has significantly updated and improved its ability to visualize GIS data. In this chapter, we will show how styling in QGIS can be used to convey more meaning to data.

We will again use the QGIS sample data from https://qgis.org/downloads/data/ – look for the qgis_sample_data.zip file. Download and extract the data to your computer if you have not already done so.

Interactive styling

A major visualization improvement in QGIS 3 is the ability to style GIS data interactively. There are now two main ways to style your data. You can either left-click on a layer and select properties, or you can click on View| Panels | Layer Styling Panel, as shown in...

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Authors (2)

Cutts

Andrew Cutts holds a geography degree and a masters degree in GIS and has almost 20 years of experience in working with geospatial technology. He currently works as a freelance geospatial consultant. He has worked in local government, large multinational companies, and small and medium-sized enterprises. He has run a geospatial blog for almost 3 years and is a co-host of the #scenefromabove podcast. Andrew has spoken at events worldwide on GIS and Earth observation. He is a keen user of Python, especially for rapid prototyping for geospatial challenges. Currently, he is working with clients to maximize their investment with geospatial technology through direct consulting, training, and technical writing.

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Anita Graser

Anita Graser is a spatial data scientist, open source GIS advocate, and author with a background in geographic information science. She is currently working with the Center for Mobility Systems at the Austrian Institute of Technology in Vienna and teaching QGIS classes at UNIGIS Salzburg. She serves on the QGIS project steering committee. and has published several books about QGIS. Furthermore, she develops tools, such as the Time Manager plugin for QGIS. You can follow her on Twitter @underdarkGIS.

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