Create your own sophisticated applications to
analyze and display geospatial information using
QGIS and Python
Chapter 1, Getting Started with QGIS, shows you how to install and run the QGIS
application, and introduces the three main ways in which Python can be used
with QGIS.
Chapter 2, The QGIS Python Console, explores the QGIS Python Console window,
and explains how it acts as a useful tool while building your own custom mapping
applications. It also gives you a taste of what can be done with Python and QGIS,
and improves your confidence and familiarity with the QGIS environment.
Chapter 3, Learning the QGIS Python API, introduces the Python libraries available
for the QGIS Python developer, and shows how these libraries can be used to
work with geospatial data and create useful and interesting maps based on
your geospatial data.
Chapter 4, Creating QGIS Plugins, introduces the concept of a QGIS plugin, and
explains how to write a plugin using Python. We take an in-depth look at how
plugins work, and how to create a useful geospatial application as a QGIS plugin.
We also look at the possibilities and limitations of QGIS plugins.
Chapter 5, Using QGIS in an External Application, completes the process of building
standalone Python applications that make use of the QGIS Python libraries. You
will learn how to create a wrapper script to handle platform-specific dependencies,
design and build a simple but complete standalone mapping application, and learn
about the structure of an application built on top of QGIS. Along the way, you will
become a far more competent QGIS programmer as you build your own turnkey
mapping application from scratch.
Chapter 6, Mastering the QGIS Python API, delves once more into the PyQGIS library,
looking at some more advanced aspects of this library, as well as various techniques
for working with QGIS using Python.
Chapter 7, Selecting and Editing Features in a PyQGIS Application, looks at how Python
programs built using PyQGIS can allow the user to select, add, edit, and delete
geospatial features within a map interface.
Chapter 8, Building a Complete Mapping Application Using Python and QGIS, covers the
process of designing and building a complete turnkey mapping application called
"ForestTrails". You will design the application, implement the overall user interface,
and construct a suitable high-resolution basemap for use by the application.
Chapter 9, Completing the ForestTrails Application, covers the completion of the
implementation of the "ForestTrails" mapping application by implementing the
various map-editing tools, as well as writing a feature to find the shortest available
path between two points on the map.
To follow through the examples in this book, you will need to install the following
software on your computer:
• QGIS Version 2.2 or later
• Python Version 2.6 or later (but not Python 3.x)
• GDAL/OGR Version 1.10 or later
• PyQt4 Version 4.10 or later
• Depending on your operating system, you might also need to install
the Qt toolkit so that PyQt will work
All of this software can be freely downloaded, and works on Mac OS X, MS
Windows, and Linux computers.
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