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Mastering Geospatial Development with QGIS 3.x

You're reading from   Mastering Geospatial Development with QGIS 3.x An in-depth guide to becoming proficient in spatial data analysis using QGIS 3.4 and 3.6 with Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788999892
Length 466 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Luigi Pirelli Luigi Pirelli
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Luigi Pirelli
Richard Smith Jr., GISP Richard Smith Jr., GISP
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Kurt Menke, GISP Kurt Menke, GISP
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Kurt Menke, GISP
Shammunul Islam Shammunul Islam
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Shammunul Islam
John Van Hoesen, GISP John Van Hoesen, GISP
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Simon Miles Simon Miles
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction FREE CHAPTER
2. A Refreshing Look at QGIS 3. Section 2: Getting Started
4. Styling Raster and Vector Data 5. Creating Spatial Databases 6. Preparing Vector Data for Processing 7. Preparing Raster Data for Processing 8. Section 3: Diving Deeper
9. Advanced Data Creation and Editing 10. Advanced Data Visualization 11. Section 4: Becoming a Master
12. The Processing Toolbox 13. Automating Workflows with the Graphical Modeler 14. Creating QGIS Plugins with PyQGIS and Problem Solving 15. PyQGIS Scripting 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

To get the most out of this book

You should have good knowledge of Python and QGIS. 

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  4. Enter the name of the book in the Search box and follow the onscreen instructions.

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  • 7-Zip/PeaZip for Linux

The code bundle for the book is also hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Mastering-Geospatial-Development-with-QGIS-3.x. In case there's an update to the code, it will be updated on the existing GitHub repository.

We also have other code bundles from our rich catalog of books and videos available at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/. Check them out!

Also, you can download data for exercises at https://qgis.org/downloads/data/.

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Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "Mount the downloaded WebStorm-10*.dmg disk image file as another disk in your system."

A block of code is set as follows:

SELECT distname as road_name, roadnumber, geom FROM SU_Road WHERE classifica LIKE 'A Road%' AND roadnumber = 'A25'

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install qgis python-qgis 

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "Select System info from the Administration panel."

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