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Practical GIS: Learn novice to advanced topics such as QGIS, Spatial data analysis, and more

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Key Features

  • This easy-to-follow guide lets you manage and analyze geographic data with ease the usage of open source tools
  • Publish your geographical data online
  • Learn the basics of geoinformatics in a practical way by solving problems

Book Description

The most commonly used GIS tools automate tasks that were historically done manually-compiling new maps by overlaying one on top of the other or physically cutting maps into pieces representing specific study areas, changing their projection, and getting meaningful results from the quite a lot of layers by applying mathematical functions and operations. This book is an easy-to-follow guide to use the most matured open source GIS tools for these tasks.

We’ll start by setting up the environment for the tools we use in the book. Then You’ll learn to work with QGIS with a view to generate useful spatial data. You’ll get to know the basics of queries, data management, and geoprocessing.

After that, You’ll start to practice your knowledge on real-world examples. We will be able to solve quite a lot of types of geospatial analyses with quite a lot of methods. We will be able to start with basic GIS problems by imitating the work of an enthusiastic real estate agent, and continue with more advanced, but typical tasks by solving a decision problem.

Finally, You’ll find out how to publish your data (and results) on the web. We will be able to publish our data with QGIS Server and GeoServer, and create a basic web map with the API of the lightweight Leaflet web mapping library.

What You’ll learn

  • Collect GIS data for your needs
  • Store the data in a PostGIS database
  • Exploit the data the usage of the power of the GIS queries
  • Analyze the data with basic and more advanced GIS tools
  • Publish your data and share it with others
  • Build a web map with your published data

About the Author

Gábor Farkas is a PhD student in the University of Pécs’s Institute of Geography. He holds a master’s degree in geography, even if he moved from traditional geography to pure geoinformatics in his early studies. He incessantly studies geoinformatical solutions in his free time, keeps up with the contemporary trends, and is an open source enthusiast. He loves to work with GRASS GIS, PostGIS, and QGIS, but his all time favorite is Web GIS, which mostly covers his main research interest.

Table of Contents

  1. Setting up your environment
  2. Accessing GIS data with QGIS
  3. Identifying your features of interest
  4. Creating digital maps
  5. Exporting the results
  6. Creating and feeding a PostGIS database
  7. A PostGIS overview
  8. Exploit your data
  9. Spatial analysis on steroids
  10. A typical GIS problem
  11. Showcasing your data
  12. Styling your data in GeoServer
  13. Creating a web map
  14. Appendix_A

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