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Mastering Geospatial Development with QGIS 3.x - Third Edition

By : Shammunul Islam, Simon Miles, Kurt Menke, GISP, Richard Smith Jr., GISP, Luigi Pirelli, John Van Hoesen, GISP
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Mastering Geospatial Development with QGIS 3.x - Third Edition

By: Shammunul Islam, Simon Miles, Kurt Menke, GISP, Richard Smith Jr., GISP, Luigi Pirelli, John Van Hoesen, GISP

Overview of this book

QGIS is an open source solution to GIS and widely used by GIS professionals all over the world. It is the leading alternative to proprietary GIS software. Although QGIS is described as intuitive, it is also, by default, complex. Knowing which tools to use and how to apply them is essential to producing valuable deliverables on time. Starting with a refresher on the QGIS basics and getting you acquainted with the latest QGIS 3.6 updates, this book will take you all the way through to teaching you how to create a spatial database and a GeoPackage. Next, you will learn how to style raster and vector data by choosing and managing different colors. The book will then focus on processing raster and vector data. You will be then taught advanced applications, such as creating and editing vector data. Along with that, you will also learn about the newly updated Processing Toolbox, which will help you develop the advanced data visualizations. The book will then explain to you the graphic modeler, how to create QGIS plugins with PyQGIS, and how to integrate Python analysis scripts with QGIS. By the end of the book, you will understand how to work with all aspects of QGIS and will be ready to use it for any type of GIS work.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Example 3 – Repairing a gap between polygons


In this example, we will continue to work with the parcel.shp polygon layer. Here, we will focus on the first gap error listed in the Topology Checker error list that has a featureID of 0. The steps to repair this are as follows:

  1. Ensure that editing is still toggled on for the parcels layer.
  1. Double-click on the error in the table so that QGIS will zoom to the area. You will see a small horizontal gap between two parcel polygons, as shown in the following diagram:
  1. The same editing parameters that were set in Example 2 will be used here.
  2. Zoom in a bit closer to the problem area.
  3. Select the parcel to the north using the select feature by the rectangle tool.
  4. Using the vertex tool, select the lower-left vertex and drag it to snap with the other two parcels and close the gap:
  1. Verify that the issue has been resolved by clicking on Validate Extent in the Topology Checker panel.
  2. The remaining gaps can be repaired using steps 1-7.

Toggle off editing for the parcels...