Download e-book for kindle: Practical GIS by Gabor Farkas

Key Features

• This easy-to-follow advisor helps you to deal with and learn geographic facts comfortably utilizing open resource tools
• Publish your geographical info online
• Learn the fundamentals of geoinformatics in a realistic method via fixing problems

Book Description

The most ordinarily used GIS instruments automate initiatives that have been traditionally performed manually—compiling new maps through protecting one on best of the opposite or bodily slicing maps into items representing particular research components, altering their projection, and getting significant effects from some of the layers by means of utilising mathematical capabilities and operations. This publication is an easy-to-follow consultant to take advantage of the main matured open resource GIS instruments for those tasks.

We'll begin by way of developing the surroundings for the instruments we use within the e-book. then you definately will how one can paintings with QGIS which will generate worthy spatial info. you'll get to grasp the fundamentals of queries, information administration, and geoprocessing.

After that, you are going to begin to perform your wisdom on real-world examples. we'll remedy a number of forms of geospatial analyses with quite a few tools. we are going to begin with simple GIS difficulties via imitating the paintings of an enthusiastic genuine property agent, and proceed with extra complicated, yet common projects through fixing a choice problem.

Finally, you can find out tips to post your info (and effects) on the net. we'll submit our info with QGIS Server and GeoServer, and create a simple internet map with the API of the light-weight Leaflet internet mapping library.

What you'll learn

• Collect GIS information on your needs
• Store the knowledge in a PostGIS database
• Exploit the information utilizing the ability of the GIS queries
• Analyze the knowledge with simple and extra complicated GIS tools
• Publish your facts and percentage it with others
• Build an internet map together with your released data

About the Author

Gabor Farkas is a PhD scholar within the college of Pecs's Institute of Geography. He holds a master's measure in geography, even supposing he moved from conventional geography to natural geoinformatics in his early stories. He usually reviews geoinformatical suggestions in his loose time, retains up with the newest developments, and is an open resource fanatic. He likes to paintings with GRASS GIS, PostGIS, and QGIS, yet his all time favourite is net GIS, which in most cases covers his major learn interest.

Table of Contents

1. Setting up your atmosphere
2. Accessing GIS information with QGIS
3. Identifying your beneficial properties of curiosity
4. Creating electronic maps
5. Exporting the implications
6. Creating and feeding a PostGIS database
7. A PostGIS evaluation
8. Exploit your information
9. Spatial research on steroids
10. A average GIS challenge
11. Showcasing your info
12. Styling your information in GeoServer
13. Creating an online map
14. Appendix_A