An important part of customizing a map is to add your logo, or other graphics, to the composition. In this recipe, we'll add a simple logo to the map.
You will need to download the following zipped shapefile and extract it to your qgis_data
directory in a subdirectory named ms
:
https://github.com/GeospatialPython/Learn/raw/master/Mississippi.zip
You will also need a logo image, which you can download from https://github.com/GeospatialPython/Learn/raw/master/logo.png.
Place the image in your qgis_data/rasters
directory.
If you haven't already done so in the previous recipe, download the MapComposer
library from https://github.com/GeospatialPython/Learn/raw/master/MapComposer.py, to simplify the creation of the map composition.
Place the file in the .qgis2/python
directory within your home directory.