QGIS composer provides an object to add a table to a composition, representing either the attributes of a vector layer or an arbitrary text table you create. In this recipe, we'll add a table to the composition with the attributes of our map layer shapefile.
Download the shapefile for this map from https://geospatialpython.googlecode.com/svn/Mississippi.zip and extract it to your qgis_data
directory, to a subdirectory named ms
.
As with the previous recipes in this chapter, we will use the MapComposer
library from https://geospatialpython.googlecode.com/svn/MapComposer.py to simplify the creation of the map composition.
Place the file in the .qgis2/python
directory within your home directory.