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QGIS 2 Cookbook

By : Alex Mandel, Víctor Olaya Ferrero, Anita Graser, Alexander Bruy
Book Image

QGIS 2 Cookbook

By: Alex Mandel, Víctor Olaya Ferrero, Anita Graser, Alexander Bruy

Overview of this book

QGIS is a user-friendly, cross-platform desktop geographic information system used to make maps and analyze spatial data. QGIS allows users to understand, question, interpret, and visualize spatial data in many ways that reveal relationships, patterns, and trends in the form of maps. This book is a collection of simple to advanced techniques that are needed in everyday geospatial work, and shows how to accomplish them with QGIS. You will begin by understanding the different types of data management techniques, as well as how data exploration works. You will then learn how to perform classic vector and raster analysis with QGIS, apart from creating time-based visualizations. Finally, you will learn how to create interactive and visually appealing maps with custom cartography. By the end of this book, you will have all the necessary knowledge to handle spatial data management, exploration, and visualization tasks in QGIS.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
QGIS 2 Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Saving and loading styles


What's better than making an awesome style for your feature layers? Being able to easily share and reuse them. Both vector and raster styles can be saved and reused—however, in slightly different ways.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you need two similar vector layers and a set of two similar raster layers. In the example data that is provided, use two of the bus route shapefiles and two of the elevation rasters (for example, elevlid_D782_6.tif).

How to do it…

First we'll start by copying and pasting styles for vector layers:

  1. Load up two bus route shapefiles and two elevlid rasters.

  2. The simplest method is to copy styles for vectors or rasters. Just right-click on the layer name in the list and select Copy Style from the Style menu. Then, right-click on the layer that you want to apply this to and select Paste Style from the Style menu. You can only copy styles between layers of the same type (for example, Point to Point):

    Try to copy and paste the style of one bus route...