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QGIS Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   QGIS Quick Start Guide A beginner's guide to getting started with QGIS 3.4

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789341157
Length 164 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Interacting with the data

In this section, we will use Map Navigation and Attributes Toolbar. Create a new project (Project | New) and load the following data from the GeoPackage into the QGIS project:

  • Airports
  • majrivers
  • trees

Load SR_50M_alaska_nad.tif from the raster folder. Make sure the layers are ordered in this way. Zoom to the extent of the Airports layer. Your screen should look similar to the following screenshot:

The overview of QGIS with layers added

Identifying data

From Attributes Toolbar, click on the blue i button and then click on a point from the Airports layer in the map. This will display the Feature attributes in a new panel; again, like all panels, you can move it around and resize as needed. The clicked...

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