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QGIS Python Programming Cookbook

Over 140 recipes to help you turn QGIS from a desktop GIS tool into a powerful automated geospatial framework

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|Sep 2025
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Key Features

    Book Description

    If you are a geospatial analyst who wants to learn more about automating everyday GIS tasks or a programmer who is responsible for building GIS applications,this book is for you. The short, reusable recipes make concepts easy to understand. You can build larger applications that are easy to maintain when they are put together.

    What you will learn

    • Build a library of reusable scripts with ScriptRunner
    • Create, import, and edit geospatial data on disk or in memory
    • Get to know more about dynamic mapping
    • Create and add features to static maps
    • Create a mapbook
    • Reproject a vector layer
    • Geolocate photos on a map
    • Combine multiple rasters into one image

    Who this book is for

    If you are a geospatial analyst who wants to learn more about automating everyday GIS tasks or a programmer who is responsible for building GIS applications,this book is for you. The short, reusable recipes make concepts easy to understand. You can build larger applications that are easy to maintain when they are put together.

    Table of Contents

    1. Automating QGIS
    2. Querying Vector Data
    3. Editing Vector Data
    4. Using Raster Data
    5. Creating Dynamic Maps
    6. Composing Static Maps
    7. Interacting with the User
    8. QGIS Workflows
    9. Other Tips and Tricks
    PDF ISBN: 978-1-78398-499-2
    Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
    Copyright owner: © 2015 Packt Publishing Limited
    Publication date: 2025
    Language: English
    Pages: 340