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Practical GIS

You're reading from   Practical GIS Learn novice to advanced topics such as QGIS, Spatial data analysis, and more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787123328
Length 428 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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G√°bor Farkas G√°bor Farkas
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Setting Up Your Environment FREE CHAPTER 2. Accessing GIS Data With QGIS 3. Using Vector Data Effectively 4. Creating Digital Maps 5. Exporting Your Data 6. Feeding a PostGIS Database 7. A PostGIS Overview 8. Spatial Analysis in QGIS 9. Spatial Analysis on Steroids - Using PostGIS 10. A Typical GIS Problem 11. Showcasing Your Data 12. Styling Your Data in GeoServer 13. Creating a Web Map Appendix

Summary

Congratulations! You just created several different web maps using different techniques. In this chapter, we learned how the client side of the web works and how we can utilize a web mapping library for our mapping needs. We can now use Leaflet to easily share our maps on the Web. We can load image layers, vector layers, style vector data, popups, and even custom projections. We also discussed some of the basic concepts of the frontend, such as the interaction of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript elements, or CORS.

This is the end of our journey. We learned a lot of things about GIS from the theory behind data models by creating a spatial database to publish the results on the Web. We did our best to understand how spatial data works and how it can be analyzed through various means. We got some meaningful results from our example data, which is completely open source (in most...

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