QGIS Blueprints

Develop analytical location-based web applications with QGIS

Key Features

Book Description

What you will learn

• Review geographic information principles and the application of these principles in the QGIS free/open source ecosystem
• Perform advanced analysis with site selection, hydrologic, and topological networks
• Build performant web applications by tile caching and generating static assets
• Provide collaborative editing capabilities for your team or community
• Develop custom and dynamic analysis and visualization capabilities
• Select the best components from desktop and web, for your use case
• Integrate it with social media and crowdsourcing

Who this book is for

This book encompasses relatively experienced GIS developers who have a strong grounding in the fundamentals of GIS development. They will have used QGIS before, but are looking to understand how to develop more complex, layered map applications that expose various data sets, utilize different visualizations, and are consumable (usable) by end users