Adding a table to the map

QGIS composer provides an object to add a table to a composition, representing either the attributes of a vector layer or an arbitrary text table you create. In this recipe, we'll add a table to the composition with the attributes of our map layer shapefile.

Getting ready

Download the shapefile for this map from https://geospatialpython.googlecode.com/svn/Mississippi.zip and extract it to your qgis_data directory, to a subdirectory named ms.

As with the previous recipes in this chapter, we will use the MapComposer library from https://geospatialpython.googlecode.com/svn/MapComposer.py to simplify the creation of the map composition.

Place the file in the .qgis2/python directory within your home directory.

How to do it...

The following steps will create a map composition, add the table, and output the composition to an image:

1. First, we import our GUI libraries and the MapComposer library:

   from PyQt4.QtCore import *
   from PyQt4.QtGui import *
   from qgisfromqgis.core import...