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By Joel Lawhead

ISBN-10: 1783984988

ISBN-13: 9781783984985

Over one hundred forty recipes that will help you flip QGIS from a laptop GIS device right into a robust automatic geospatial framework

About This Book

  • Use Python and QGIS to create and remodel information, produce beautiful GIS visualizations, and construct complicated map layouts
  • Learn undocumented good points of the hot QGIS processing module
  • A set of straight forward recipes that could automate the full geospatial workflows through connecting Python GIS development blocks into accomplished processes

Who This booklet Is For

If you're a geospatial analyst who desires to examine extra approximately automating daily GIS initiatives or a programmer who's liable for construction GIS applications,this booklet is for you. the quick, reusable recipes make strategies effortless to appreciate. you could construct better functions which are effortless to take care of once they are positioned together.

What you are going to Learn

  • Build a library of reusable scripts with ScriptRunner
  • Create, import, and edit geospatial information on disk or in memory
  • Get to grasp extra approximately dynamic mapping
  • Create and upload positive aspects to static maps
  • Create a mapbook
  • Reproject a vector layer
  • Geolocate pictures on a map
  • Combine a number of rasters into one image

In Detail

QGIS Python Programming will train you ways to write down Python code that works with spatial facts to automate geoprocessing initiatives in QGIS. it is going to disguise issues akin to querying and modifying vector info and utilizing raster information. additionally, you will discover ways to create, edit, and optimize a vector layer for quicker queries, reproject a vector layer, lessen the variety of vertices in a vector layer with no wasting severe information, and convert a raster to a vector. Following this, you are going to stumble upon recipes that can assist you to compose static maps, create seriously personalized maps, and upload really good labels and annotations. except this, the publication also will percentage a couple of tips and tips in line with various facets of QGIS.

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He is currently an epidemiologist at the Baltimore City Health Department, Maryland, where he performs spatial analysis on health and crime data. Luigi Pirelli is a freelance software analyst and developer with a honors degree in computer science from the University of Bari. He actively participates in QGIS Hackmeetings. During the past few years, he started teaching PyQGIS by organizing trainings, from basic to advanced level, supporting companies to develop their specific QGIS plugins. He has coauthored Mastering QGIS, Packt Publishing.

In 2014, he also began to teach other colleagues how to use QGIS and other open source software. I would like to thank my wife, Fabiola; my little daughter, Anna; my mother, Angela; and my colleagues, Marco De Castris, Ettore Arcangeletti, Luca Grande, and Ivan Solinas. He has done graduate coursework in Python and uses Python for programming small tasks. He is currently an epidemiologist at the Baltimore City Health Department, Maryland, where he performs spatial analysis on health and crime data.

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