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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 a web map

We can do more than just create printed or static digital maps. By creating a web map, a user has the ability to have more interaction with a map online. QGIS has a plugin that will allow you to display your data as a web map. This provides another option for sharing your maps. In this brief example, we will introduce QGIS plugins and how the qgis2web plugin allows us to create web maps.

Plugins are a really powerful and collaborative feature of QGIS. Developers and companies have created many plugins that extend the core features of QGIS. Some have been so integral to workflows that they have been incorporated into the main software. From the Plugins menu, select Manage and Install Plugins.

We will look at plugins more in the following two chapters, Chapter 6, Spatial Processing and Chapter 7, Expanding QGIS 3.

From the plugin manager, with the ALL tab selected...