QGIS User Guide

• 1. Preamble
  • 1.1. What is new in QGIS 3.28
• 2. Foreword
• 3. Conventions
  • 3.1. GUI Conventions
  • 3.2. Text or Keyboard Conventions
  • 3.3. Platform-specific instructions
• 4. Features
  • 4.1. View data
  • 4.2. Explore data and compose maps
  • 4.3. Create, edit, manage and export data
  • 4.4. Analyze data
  • 4.5. Publish maps on the Internet
  • 4.6. Extend QGIS functionality through plugins
  • 4.7. Python Console
  • 4.8. Known Issues
• 5. Getting Started
  • 5.1. Installing QGIS
  • 5.2. Starting and stopping QGIS
  • 5.3. Sample Session: Loading raster and vector layers
• 6. Working with Project Files
  • 6.1. Introducing QGIS projects
  • 6.2. Handling broken file paths
  • 6.3. Generating output
• 7. QGIS GUI
  • 7.1. Menu Bar
  • 7.2. Panels and Toolbars
  • 7.3. Status Bar
• 8. The Browser panel
  • 8.1. Resources that can be opened / run from the Browser
  • 8.2. Browser panel top-level entries
  • 8.3. Resources
• 9. QGIS Configuration
  • 9.1. Options
  • 9.2. Working with User Profiles
  • 9.3. Project Properties
  • 9.4. Customization
  • 9.5. Keyboard shortcuts
  • 9.6. Running QGIS with advanced settings
• 10. Working with Projections
  • 10.1. Overview of Projection Support
  • 10.2. Layer Coordinate Reference Systems
  • 10.3. Project Coordinate Reference Systems
  • 10.4. Coordinate Reference System Selector
  • 10.5. Custom Coordinate Reference System
  • 10.6. Datum Transformations
• 11. Visualizing Maps
  • 11.1. 2D Map View
  • 11.2. 3D Map View
  • 11.3. Elevation Profile View
• 12. General Tools
  • 12.1. Context help
  • 12.2. Panels
  • 12.3. Embedding layers from external projects
  • 12.4. Interacting with features
  • 12.5. Save and Share Layer Properties
  • 12.6. Documenting your data
  • 12.7. Storing values in Variables
  • 12.8. Authentication
  • 12.9. Common widgets
• 13. Level up with Expressions
  • 13.1. Expressions
  • 13.2. List of functions
• 14. The Style Library
  • 14.1. The Style Manager
  • 14.2. The Symbol Selector
  • 14.3. Setting a label
  • 14.4. Creating 3D Symbols
• 15. Managing Data Source
  • 15.1. Opening Data
  • 15.2. Creating Layers
  • 15.3. Exploring Data Formats and Fields
• 16. Working with Vector Data
  • 16.1. The Vector Properties Dialog
  • 16.2. Working with the Attribute Table
  • 16.3. Editing
• 17. Working with Raster Data
  • 17.1. Raster Properties Dialog
  • 17.2. Raster Analysis
  • 17.3. Georeferencer
• 18. Working with Mesh Data
  • 18.1. What’s a mesh?
  • 18.2. Supported formats
  • 18.3. Mesh Dataset Properties
  • 18.4. Editing a mesh layer
  • 18.5. Mesh Calculator
• 19. Working with Vector Tiles
  • 19.1. What are Vector Tiles?
  • 19.2. Supported Formats
  • 19.3. Vector Tiles Dataset Properties
• 20. Working with Point Clouds
  • 20.1. Introduction to Point Clouds
  • 20.2. Point Clouds Properties
• 21. Laying out the maps
  • 21.1. Overview of the Print Layout
  • 21.2. Layout Items
  • 21.3. Creating an Output
  • 21.4. Creating a Report
• 22. Working with OGC / ISO protocols
  • 22.1. WMS/WMTS Client
  • 22.2. WCS Client
  • 22.3. WFS and WFS-T Client
• 23. Working with GPS Data
  • 23.1. Introducing GNSS/GPS Data
  • 23.2. Live GPS tracking
• 24. Authentication System
  • 24.1. Authentication System Overview
  • 24.2. User Authentication Workflows
  • 24.3. Security Considerations
• 25. GRASS GIS Integration
  • 25.1. Demo dataset
  • 25.2. Loading GRASS raster and vector layers
  • 25.3. Importing data into a GRASS LOCATION via drag and drop
  • 25.4. Managing GRASS data in QGIS Browser
  • 25.5. GRASS Options
  • 25.6. Starting the GRASS plugin
  • 25.7. Opening GRASS mapset
  • 25.8. GRASS LOCATION and MAPSET
  • 25.9. Importing data into a GRASS LOCATION
  • 25.10. The GRASS vector data model
  • 25.11. Creating a new GRASS vector layer
  • 25.12. Digitizing and editing a GRASS vector layer
  • 25.13. The GRASS region tool
  • 25.14. The GRASS Toolbox
• 26. QGIS processing framework
  • 26.1. Introduction
  • 26.2. Configuring the Processing Framework
  • 26.3. The Toolbox
  • 26.4. The history manager
  • 26.5. The model designer
  • 26.6. The batch processing interface
  • 26.7. Using processing algorithms from the console
  • 26.8. Using processing from the command line
  • 26.9. Writing new Processing algorithms as Python scripts
  • 26.10. Configuring external applications
• 27. Processing providers and algorithms
  • 27.1. QGIS algorithm provider
  • 27.2. GDAL algorithm provider
  • 27.3. OTB applications provider
• 28. Plugins
  • 28.1. QGIS Plugins
  • 28.2. Using QGIS Core Plugins
  • 28.3. QGIS Python console
• 29. Help and Support
  • 29.1. Mailing lists
  • 29.2. Matrix / IRC
  • 29.3. Commercial support
  • 29.4. BugTracker
  • 29.5. Blog
  • 29.6. Plugins
  • 29.7. Wiki
• 30. Contributors
  • 30.1. Authors
  • 30.2. Translators
  • 30.3. Statistics of translation
• 31. Appendices
  • 31.1. Appendix A: GNU General Public License
  • 31.2. Appendix B: GNU Free Documentation License
  • 31.3. Appendix C: QGIS File Formats
  • 31.4. Appendix D: QGIS R script syntax
  • 31.5. Appendix E: QGIS Application Network Connections
• 32. Literature and Web References