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QGIS 2 Cookbook

You're reading from QGIS 2 Cookbook Become a QGIS power user and master QGIS data management, visualization, and spatial analysis techniques

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2016

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781783984961

Length 390 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

QGIS

Concepts

Geospatial Analysis

Authors (3):

Mandel

Olaya Ferrero

Anita Graser

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

QGIS 2 Cookbook

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Data Input and Output FREE CHAPTER

2. Data Management

3. Common Data Preprocessing Steps

4. Data Exploration

5. Classic Vector Analysis

6. Network Analysis

7. Raster Analysis I

8. Raster Analysis II

9. QGIS and the Web

10. Cartography Tips

11. Extending QGIS

12. Up and Coming

Index

Chapter 3. Common Data Preprocessing Steps

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

Converting points to lines to polygons and back – QGIS
Converting points to lines to polygons and back – SpatiaLite
Converting points to lines to polygons and back – PostGIS
Cropping rasters
Clipping vectors
Extracting vectors
Converting rasters to vectors
Converting vectors to rasters
Building DateTime strings
Geotagging photos

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Authors (3)

Mandel

Mandel

Alex Mandel is a geospatial scientist who has a PhD in geography and more than 12 years of experience in applying GIS to a variety of projects. He has also taught courses on GIS, geospatial programming, and Geoweb.

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Olaya Ferrero

Olaya Ferrero

Victor is a GIS developer. He is the creator and main developer of the QGIS Processing Framework. Victor is the author of “Sistemas de Información Geográfica” a free book about fundamentals of GIS. I would like to thank my co-authors, and everyone else in the QGIS community.

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Anita Graser

Anita Graser

Anita Graser is a spatial data scientist, open source GIS advocate, and author with a background in geographic information science. She is currently working with the Center for Mobility Systems at the Austrian Institute of Technology in Vienna and teaching QGIS classes at UNIGIS Salzburg. She serves on the QGIS project steering committee. and has published several books about QGIS. Furthermore, she develops tools, such as the Time Manager plugin for QGIS. You can follow her on Twitter @underdarkGIS.

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