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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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Richard Smith Jr., GISP Richard Smith Jr., GISP
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Kurt Menke, GISP Kurt Menke, GISP
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Shammunul Islam Shammunul Islam
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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

The power of geometry generators

Geometry generators allow us to modify and create geometries. Using expression engines, they allow us to modify or generate geometry on the fly and to have different geometries stacked together, allowing us to make creating complex rendering an easy and feasible task. They can be used to perform different operations on point, line, and polygon data, and using the expression engine, we can generate advanced symbology.

Now, we will use the dhaka_gazipur.shp file to see some of the geometry generators you can use with polygon data:

This shapefile has two polygons. Suppose that we want to get the geometric center of these two polygons. This can be very easily achieved using centroid($geometry) as an expression for Geometry generator. To do this, we first click on Open the Layer Styling panel  in the Layers panel. This will open the...

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