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Introduction to QGIS
(Adding GIS data, attribute table, identity tool,
symbology and creating maps)
www.iirs.gov.in
Why QGIS?
QGIS Features
QGIS offers many common GIS functionalities provided by core
features and plugins
View data: view and overlay vector and raster data in different formats
and projections without conversion to an internal or common format.
Supported formats include:
Spatially-enabled tables and views using PostGIS, SpatiaLite and MS SQL
Spatial, Oracle Spatial, vector formats supported by the installed OGR
library, including ESRI shapefiles, MapInfo, GML etc.
Raster and imagery formats supported by the installed GDAL (Geospatial
Data Abstraction Library) library, such as GeoTIFF, ERDAS IMG, ArcInfo ASCII
GRID
Integration with GRASS GIS GRASS raster and vector data from GRASS
databases
Online spatial data served as OGC-compliant Web Map Service (WMS) or
Web Feature Service (WFS),
OpenStreetMap data
QGIS Browser
On-the-fly reprojection
DB Manager
Overview panel
Spatial bookmarks
Annotation tools
Identify/select features
Edit/view/search attributes
Feature labeling
Digitizing tools
Georeferencer plugin
spatial data analysis on spatial databases and other OGR supported formats.
Use the integrated GRASS tools, which include the complete GRASS functionality of
more than 400 modules.
Processing Plugin, which provides a powerful geospatial analysis framework to call
native and third-party algorithms from QGIS, such as GDAL, SAGA, GRASS etc.
Installation
Standard
installer
packages are available
for Windows and Mac
OSX.
Many
flavors
of
GNU/Linux
binary
packages (rpm and deb)
Get the latest information
on binary packages at the
QGIS website at
http://www.qgis.org/en/sit
e/forusers/download.html
You can now open QGIS
from your Start Menu.
QGIS
QGIS DESKTOP
QGIS Browser
QGIS GUI
1
1. Menu Bar
2. Tool Bar
3. Layers List / Browser Panel
4. Map Canvas
5. Side Toolbar
6. Status Bar
The by-default filter is *.shp file. But there are many choices such as *.kml,
Microstation, GML,GPX etc
Identify features
Table Joins
1
3
2
Attribute Table
OpenStreetMap Vectors
PostgreSQL/PostGIS Layers
Spatial Bookmarks
Spatial bookmarks are and easy and quick way of navigating around
different areas of the map canvas that you are working on.
If there is a particular area you need to keep revisiting it is best to create a
bookmark for this location.
To revisit this click the Show Bookmarks icon and select the one you want
You can delete bookmarks in this directory when they are no longer useful
QGIS uses the GDAL library to read and write raster data formats,
including ArcInfo Binary Grid, ArcInfo ASCII Grid, GeoTIFF, ERDAS IMAGINE
etc.
Raster layers are loaded either by:
Allows to size, group, align and position each element and adjust the
properties to create your layout.
The layout can be printed or exported to image formats, PDF etc
Before starting with the Print Composer, load some raster and vector layers
in the QGIS map canvas and adapt their properties
Exporting
Your Map
as
Image
as SVG
as PDF
Make sure the save paths setting is on relative not absolute this will allow the
project you save to remember where all the files are (if you open the project on
another computer or from another directory and it comes up with an error saying
it cant locate the layers this is probably the problem).
Plugins
SPIT Plugin
eVis Plugin
http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantumgis/How_do_I_do_that_in_QGIS
http://www.qgistutorials.com/en/
Ujaval Gandhi
BOOK
Learning QGIS 2.0 by Anita Graser
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