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Mastering QGIS

You're reading from Mastering QGIS Go beyond the basics and unleash the full power of QGIS with practical, step-by-step examples

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786460370

Length 486 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

QGIS

Concepts

Geospatial Analysis

Authors (5):

Kurt Menke, GISP

Corti

Smith Jr., GISP

Pirelli

Van Hoesen, GISP

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Mastering QGIS - Second Edition

Credits

Foreword

About the Authors

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

1. A Refreshing Look at QGIS FREE CHAPTER

2. Creating Spatial Databases

3. Styling Raster and Vector Data

4. Preparing Vector Data for Processing

5. Preparing Raster Data for Processing

6. Advanced Data Creation and Editing

7. Advanced Data Visualization

8. The Processing Toolbox

9. Automating Workflows with the Graphical Modeler

10. Creating QGIS Plugins with PyQGIS and Problem Solving

11. PyQGIS Scripting

Index

Vector layer rendering

Layer rendering modifies the properties of the vector to change the way it displays and interacts with the layer below and the features within the vector. Layer rendering is a part of vector style properties for all style types and works in the same way, regardless of the selected style type. In this section, we will discuss the parameters that are available for change in the Layer rendering section of vector style properties.

When a vector is first loaded, the Layer rendering parameters are set to their default values, as shown in the following screenshot:

The Layer rendering section has five parameters—Layer transparency, Layer blending mode, Feature blending mode, Draw effects, and Control feature rendering order—which will now be explained in detail.

Layer transparency

Layer transparency sets the percentage of transparency for the layer. The higher the transparency value, the more the layers below will be visible through this layer. The transparency is set between...

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Authors (5)

Kurt Menke, GISP

Kurt Menke, GISP

Kurt Menke, a certified GIS Professional (GISP), has been working in the GIS field since 1997. Prior to this, he worked as a professional archaeologist for 10 years in the American Southwest. He earned a master's degree (MA) in Geography from the University of New Mexico in 2000. That same year, he founded Bird's Eye View (www.BirdsEyeViewGIS.com) to apply his expertise with the GIS technology to the World's mounting ecological and social problems. Towards this end, Mr. Menke's work focuses largely on wildlife conservation and public health. His specialties are spatial analysis, modeling, and cartography. He is a longtime advocate of FOSS4G. He began writing MapServer applications in 2001 and has been using QGIS since 2007. He is one of the coauthors of the curriculum at the FOSS4G Academy

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Corti

Corti

Paolo Corti is an environmental engineer with 20 years of experience in the GIS field, currently working as a Geospatial Engineer Fellow at the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard University. He is an advocate of open source geospatial technologies and Python, an OSGeo Charter member, and a member of the pycsw and GeoNode Project Steering Committees. He is a coauthor of the first edition of this book and the reviewer for the first and second editions of the Mastering QGIS book by Packt.

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Smith Jr., GISP

Smith Jr., GISP

Richard Smith Jr., GISP, is an asst. professor of geographic information science in the School of Engineering and Computing Sciences at Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi. He has a Ph.D. in geography from the University of Georgia, MSc in computer science, and BSc in geographic information science from Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi. He researches in cartography, systems integration, and the use of geospatial technology for disaster response. He is an advocate for FOSS4G and building a FOSS4G curriculum. He is a co-author of the FOSS4G Academy.

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Pirelli

Pirelli

Luigi Pirelli is a QGIS developer and software analyst with a degree in computer science from Bari University. He has worked in the Satellite Ground Segment and Direct Ingestion for the European Space Agency. He is involved in GFOSS world, contributing in QGIS, GRASS, & MapServer core, and developing QGIS plugins. Luigi is the founder of the OSGEO Italian local GFOSS chapter. He has taught PyQGIS, delivered training from basic to advanced levels, and supported companies to develop their own QGIS plugins. He founded a local hackerspace group-Bricolabs.cc. He likes training groups on conflict resolution. He contributed to the Lonely Planet guide Cycling Italy.

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Van Hoesen, GISP

Van Hoesen, GISP

John Van Hoesen, GISP, is an associate professor of geology and environmental studies at Green Mountain College in rural west-central Vermont, USA. He has an MS and a Ph.D. in geology from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is a certified GISP with a broad background in the geosciences and has used some flavor of GIS to evaluate and explore geological processes and environmental issues. John has taught graduate, undergraduate, and continuing education courses using some variants of FOSS GIS since 2003.

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