The QGIS composer has an object for drawing and styling nonspatial shapes, including rectangles, ellipses, and triangles. In this recipe, we'll add some rectangles filled with different colors, which will resemble a simple bar chart, as an example of using shapes.
Download the zipped shapefile for this map from https://geospatialpython.googlecode.com/svn/Mississippi.zip and extract it to your qgis_data
directory, to in a subdirectory named ms
.
We will also 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.