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QGIS Quick Start Guide

By : Andrew Cutts
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QGIS Quick Start Guide

By: Andrew Cutts

Overview of this book

QGIS is a user friendly, open source geographic information system (GIS). The popularity of open source GIS and QGIS, in particular, has been growing rapidly over the last few years. This book is designed to help beginners learn about all the tools required to use QGIS 3.4. This book will provide you with clear, step-by-step instructions to help you apply your GIS knowledge to QGIS. You begin with an overview of QGIS 3.4 and its installation. You will learn how to load existing spatial data and create vector data from scratch. You will then be creating styles and labels for maps. The final two chapters demonstrate the Processing toolbox and include a brief investigation on how to extend QGIS. Throughout this book, we will be using the GeoPackage format, and we will also discuss how QGIS can support many different types of data. Finally, you will learn where to get help and how to become engaged with the GIS community.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Creating an Atlas

Close the layout we have just created and return to the QGIS main project screen. In this example, we are going to create an Atlas of maps of the locations around civilian airports. To do this, use the NAME field, which contains only civilian airports. Let's create a new basic layout to show this functionality. We can do this by selecting Project | New Print Layout, or via Layout Manager Project | Layout Manager. Let's choose Layout Manager. This is a useful dialog box that lists all of our created layouts within a QGIS project. It is shown in the following screenshot:

QGIS Layout Manager

Select Empty layout and click on Create to open a new blank template. I am going to call my new layout Airport_Atlas:

Create a new print layout

As we did when creating the Alaska map, select the add new map to layout button, and click and drag to fill the map page...