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QGIS User Guide¶

Preamble
Conventions
- GUI Conventions
- Text or Keyboard Conventions
- Platform-specific instructions
Foreword
Features
- View data
- Explore data and compose maps
- Create, edit, manage and export data
- Analyse data
- Publish maps on the Internet
- Extend QGIS functionality through plugins
- Python Console
- Known Issues
What’s new in QGIS 2.8
- Application
- Data Providers
- Digitizing
- Map Composer
- Plugins
- QGIS Server
- Symbology
- User Interface
Getting Started
- Installation
- Sample Data
- Sample Session
- Starting and Stopping QGIS
- Command Line Options
- Projects
- Output
QGIS GUI
- Menu Bar
- Toolbar
- Map Legend
- Map View
- Status Bar
General Tools
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Context help
- Rendering
- Measuring
- Identify features
- Decorations
- Annotation Tools
- Spatial Bookmarks
- Nesting Projects
QGIS Configuration
- Panels and Toolbars
- Project Properties
- Options
- Customization
Working with Projections
- Overview of Projection Support
- Global Projection Specification
- Define On The Fly (OTF) Reprojection
- Custom Coordinate Reference System
- Default datum transformations
QGIS Browser
Working with Vector Data
- Supported Data Formats
- The Symbol Library
- The Vector Properties Dialog
- Expressions
- Editing
- Query Builder
- Field Calculator
Working with Raster Data
- Working with Raster Data
- Raster Properties Dialog
- Raster Calculator
Working with OGC Data
- QGIS as OGC Data Client
- QGIS as OGC Data Server
Working with GPS Data
- GPS Plugin
- Live GPS tracking
GRASS GIS Integration
- Starting the GRASS plugin
- Loading GRASS raster and vector layers
- GRASS LOCATION and MAPSET
- Importing data into a GRASS LOCATION
- The GRASS vector data model
- Creating a new GRASS vector layer
- Digitizing and editing a GRASS vector layer
- The GRASS region tool
- The GRASS Toolbox
QGIS processing framework
- Introduction
- The toolbox
- The graphical modeler
- The batch processing interface
- Using processing algorithms from the console
- The history manager
- Writing new Processing algorithms as python scripts
- Handing data produced by the algorithm
- Communicating with the user
- Documenting your scripts
- Example scripts
- Best practices for writing script algorithms
- Pre- and post-execution script hooks
- Configuring external applications
- The QGIS Commander
Processing providers and algorithms
- GDAL algorithm provider
- LAStools
- Modeler Tools
- OrfeoToolbox algorithm provider
- QGIS algorithm provider
- R algorithm provider
- SAGA algorithm provider
- TauDEM algorithm provider
Print Composer
- First steps
- Rendering mode
- Composer Items
- Manage items
- Revert and Restore tools
- Atlas generation
- Hide and show panels
- Creating Output
- Manage the Composer
Plugins
- QGIS Plugins
- Using QGIS Core Plugins
- Coordinate Capture Plugin
- DB Manager Plugin
- Dxf2Shp Converter Plugin
- eVis Plugin
- fTools Plugin
- GDAL Tools Plugin
- Georeferencer Plugin
- Heatmap Plugin
- Interpolation Plugin
- MetaSearch Catalogue Client
- Offline Editing Plugin
- Oracle Spatial GeoRaster Plugin
- Raster Terrain Analysis Plugin
- Road Graph Plugin
- Spatial Query Plugin
- SPIT Plugin
- Topology Checker Plugin
- Zonal Statistics Plugin
Help and Support
- Mailing lists
- IRC
- BugTracker
- Blog
- Plugins
- Wiki
Appendix
- GNU General Public License
- GNU Free Documentation License
Literature and Web References