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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

Viewing the Processing Toolbox


In this section, we will explore the organization of the Toolbox and establish a common language for describing its various components. Until this point, we haven't actually seen the interface itself. We've merely configured and possibly installed the required dependencies to make the Toolbox function. To view the Toolbox, you need to click on Toolbox under the Processing menu, as illustrated in this screenshot:

The Processing Toolbox will appear on the right-hand side of the QGIS interface:

The next section will provide you with an overview of how to run an algorithm in this Toolbox.

Running algorithms in the Processing Toolbox

Initially, you will only see a list of the various providers and a summary of the total algorithms available from each provider. When you click on the

icon next to any of the entries, the list expands to reveal subdirectories that group together related tools. In addition to manually navigating these directories, there is a search box at...