QGIS User Guide

• 1. Getting Started
  • 1.1. Installing QGIS
  • 1.2. Starting and stopping QGIS
  • 1.3. Sample Session: Loading raster and vector layers
• 2. Working with Project Files
  • 2.1. Introducing QGIS projects
  • 2.2. Handling broken file paths
  • 2.3. Generating output
• 3. QGIS GUI
  • 3.1. Menu Bar
  • 3.2. Panels and Toolbars
  • 3.3. Status Bar
• 4. The Browser panel
  • 4.1. Resources that can be opened / run from the Browser
  • 4.2. Browser panel top-level entries
• 5. QGIS Configuration
  • 5.1. Options
  • 5.2. Working with User Profiles
  • 5.3. Project Properties
  • 5.4. Customization
  • 5.5. Keyboard shortcuts
  • 5.6. Running QGIS with advanced settings
• 6. Working with Projections
  • 6.1. Overview of Projection Support
  • 6.2. Layer Coordinate Reference Systems
  • 6.3. Project Coordinate Reference Systems
  • 6.4. Coordinate Reference System Selector
  • 6.5. Custom Coordinate Reference System
  • 6.6. Datum Transformations
• 7. Visualizing Maps
  • 7.1. 2D Map View
  • 7.2. 3D Map View
  • 7.3. Elevation Profile View
• 8. General Tools
  • 8.1. Context help
  • 8.2. Panels
  • 8.3. Embedding layers from external projects
  • 8.4. Interacting with features
  • 8.5. Save and Share Layer Properties
  • 8.6. Documenting your data
  • 8.7. Storing values in Variables
  • 8.8. Common widgets
• 9. Level up with Expressions
  • 9.1. Expressions
  • 9.2. List of functions
• 10. The Style Library
  • 10.1. The Style Manager
  • 10.2. The Symbol Selector
  • 10.3. Setting a label
  • 10.4. Creating 3D Symbols and Materials
• 11. Managing Data Source
  • 11.1. Opening Data
  • 11.2. Creating Layers
  • 11.3. Georeferencer
  • 11.4. Exploring Data Formats and Fields
• 12. Working with Vector Data
  • 12.1. The Vector Properties Dialog
  • 12.2. Working with the Attribute Table
  • 12.3. Editing
  • 12.4. Connecting and Editing Data Across Layers
• 13. Working with Raster Data
  • 13.1. Raster Properties Dialog
  • 13.2. Raster Analysis
• 14. Working with Mesh Data
  • 14.1. What’s a mesh?
  • 14.2. Supported formats
  • 14.3. Mesh Dataset Properties
  • 14.4. Exploring mesh datasets
  • 14.5. Editing a mesh layer
  • 14.6. Mesh Calculator
• 15. Working with Vector Tiles
  • 15.1. What are Vector Tiles?
  • 15.2. Supported Formats
  • 15.3. Vector Tiles Dataset Properties
  • 15.4. QGIS Server Properties
• 16. Working with Point Clouds
  • 16.1. Introduction to Point Clouds
  • 16.2. Point Clouds Properties
  • 16.3. Virtual point cloud
  • 16.4. Editing point clouds layers
• 17. Working with 3D Tiles
  • 17.1. What are 3D Tiles?
  • 17.2. 3D Tiles Properties
• 18. Working with GPS Data
  • 18.1. Introducing GNSS/GPS Data
  • 18.2. Live GPS tracking
• 19. GRASS GIS Integration
  • 19.1. Importing data into a GRASS Project via drag and drop
  • 19.2. GRASS Options
  • 19.3. Starting the GRASS plugin
  • 19.4. GRASS PROJECT and MAPSET
  • 19.5. The GRASS vector data model
  • 19.6. Managing GRASS data
  • 19.7. Digitizing and editing a GRASS vector layer
  • 19.8. The GRASS region tool
  • 19.9. The GRASS Toolbox
  • 19.10. Working with GRASS modules
• 20. Working with OGC / ISO protocols
  • 20.1. WMS/WMTS Client
  • 20.2. WCS Client
  • 20.3. WFS and WFS-T Client
  • 20.4. SensorThings
  • 20.5. STAC (SpatioTemporal Asset Catalogs)
  • 20.6. ArcGIS REST Server
• 21. Authentication System
  • 21.1. Authentication System Overview
  • 21.2. User Authentication Workflows
• 22. Laying out the maps
  • 22.1. Overview of the Print Layout
  • 22.2. Layout Items
  • 22.3. Creating an Output
  • 22.4. Creating a Report
• 23. QGIS processing framework
  • 23.1. Introduction
  • 23.2. Configuring the Processing Framework
  • 23.3. The Toolbox
  • 23.4. The history manager
  • 23.5. The model designer
  • 23.6. The batch processing interface
  • 23.7. Using processing algorithms from the console
  • 23.8. Using processing from the command line
  • 23.9. Writing new Processing algorithms as Python scripts
  • 23.10. Input and output types for Processing Algorithms
  • 23.11. Configuring external applications
• 24. Processing providers and algorithms
  • 24.1. QGIS algorithm provider
  • 24.2. GDAL algorithm provider
• 25. Plugins
  • 25.1. QGIS Plugins
  • 25.2. Using QGIS Core Plugins
  • 25.3. QGIS Python console
• 26. Appendices
  • 26.1. Appendix C: QGIS File Formats
  • 26.2. Appendix D: QGIS R script syntax
  • 26.3. Appendix E: QGIS Application Network Connections
• 27. Literature and Web References