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QGIS Quick Start Guide

By : Andrew Cutts
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QGIS Quick Start Guide

By: Andrew Cutts

Overview of this book

QGIS is a user friendly, open source geographic information system (GIS). The popularity of open source GIS and QGIS, in particular, has been growing rapidly over the last few years. This book is designed to help beginners learn about all the tools required to use QGIS 3.4. This book will provide you with clear, step-by-step instructions to help you apply your GIS knowledge to QGIS. You begin with an overview of QGIS 3.4 and its installation. You will learn how to load existing spatial data and create vector data from scratch. You will then be creating styles and labels for maps. The final two chapters demonstrate the Processing toolbox and include a brief investigation on how to extend QGIS. Throughout this book, we will be using the GeoPackage format, and we will also discuss how QGIS can support many different types of data. Finally, you will learn where to get help and how to become engaged with the GIS community.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Styling Data

In this chapter, we will be styling GIS data. We will be using data stored in a GeoPackage. We will style vector layers based on data in the attribute table, and raster data using the vast array of rendering tools available to us. After we have created the styles, you can save and reuse them.

QGIS, by default, will randomly assign colors to every layer, and while this was useful when editing and creating, we'd like to visualize our data better. This will help us to produce a much more useful and pleasing map. This is the focus of this chapter.

These are the topics covered in this chapter:

  • Layer Styling Panel
  • Styling vector data
  • Styling raster data
  • Saving style files