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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

Chapter 7. Advanced Data Visualization

This chapter will provide readers with more advanced ways to visualize data. In QGIS 3.x, there are now new functionalities added for data visualization including 3D data visualization and animation (animation feature is added in QGIS 3.4). There are now many visualization tools that are unique to QGIS and allow you to extract information through beautiful data visualizations of both 2D and 3D. For example, digital elevation model can convey more information graphically if it is displayed in 3D view and summary data can be more meaningfully conveyed with box plot as we will cover in this chapter.

These are the topics that we will cover in this chapter:

  • Using live layer effects
  • Creating beautiful effects with inverted polygon shapeburst fills
  • Using the 2.5D renderer
  • Creating 3D views 
  • Creating an Atlas
  • The power of geometry generators
  • Working with the Data Plotly plugin