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QGIS 2 Cookbook

By : Mandel, Olaya Ferrero, Anita Graser
Book Image

QGIS 2 Cookbook

By: Mandel, Olaya Ferrero, Anita Graser

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 (14 chapters)
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Index

Managing GeoServer from QGIS


QGIS does not only serve as a frontend for the QGIS server, but it can also serve as a frontend for other similar servers. GeoServer is one of the most popular ones, and you can configure it from QGIS, upload layers, or even edit the style of a GeoServer layer using the QGIS symbology tools.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you will need the GeoServer Explorer plugin. This can be installed using Plugin Manager.

You will also need a running instance of GeoServer. We will assume that you have a local one running on port 8080, but you can replace the corresponding URL with the one of the GeoServer instance that you have available, whether local or remote.

How to do it…

  1. Open the GeoServer Explorer by navigating to Web | GeoServer | Geoserver Explorer. The explorer will appear on the right-hand side of the QGIS window.

  2. Click on the GeoServer Catalogs item in the explorer tree, and then select the New catalog button.

  3. Complete the fields in the dialog that will appear to define...