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QGIS User Guide¶

Preamble
Foreword
Conventions
- GUI Conventions
- Text or Keyboard Conventions
- Platform-specific instructions
Features
- View data
- Explore data and compose maps
- Create, edit, manage and export data
- Analyze data
- Publish maps on the Internet
- Extend QGIS functionality through plugins
- Python Console
- Known Issues
What’s new in QGIS 2.18
Getting Started
- Installation
- Launching QGIS
- Sample Session: Load raster and vector layers
- Projects
- Output
QGIS GUI
- Menu Bar
- Panels and Toolbars
- Map View
- Status Bar
General Tools
- Context help
- Panels
- Rendering
- Save and Share Layer Properties
- Color Selector
- Blending Modes
- Zooming and Panning
- Measuring
- Selecting features
- Data defined override setup
- Identify Features
- Annotation Tools
- Spatial Bookmarks
- Nesting Projects
- Decorations
- Authentication
- Variables
QGIS Configuration
- Options
- Project Properties
- Customization
- Keyboard shortcuts
Working with Projections
- Overview of Projection Support
- Global Projection Specification
- Define On The Fly (OTF) CRS Transformation
- Coordinate Reference System Selector
- Custom Coordinate Reference System
- Default datum transformations
Managing Data Source
- Opening Data
- Creating Layers
- Exploring Data Formats and Fields
Working with Vector Data
- The Symbol Library
- The Vector Properties Dialog
- Expressions
- Working with the Attribute Table
- Editing
Working with Raster Data
- Raster Properties Dialog
- Raster Analysis
Print Composer
- Overview of the Print Composer
- Composer Items
- Creating an Output
Working with OGC Data
- QGIS as OGC Data Client
- QGIS as OGC Data Server
Working with GPS Data
- GPS Plugin
- Live GPS tracking
Authentication System
- Authentication System Overview
- User Authentication Workflows
- Security Considerations
GRASS GIS Integration
- Demo dataset
- Loading GRASS raster and vector layers
- Importing data into a GRASS LOCATION via drag and drop
- Managing GRASS data in QGIS Browser
- GRASS Options
- Starting the GRASS plugin
- Opening GRASS mapset
- 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 Standalone Browser
QGIS processing framework
- Introduction
- Vector menu
- The toolbox
- The history manager
- The graphical modeler
- The batch processing interface
- Using processing algorithms from the console
- Writing new Processing algorithms as python scripts
- Configuring external applications
- The QGIS Commander
Processing providers and algorithms
- GDAL algorithm provider
- LAStools algorithm provider
- Modeler Tools
- OrfeoToolbox algorithm provider
- QGIS algorithm provider
- R algorithm provider
- SAGA algorithm provider
- TauDEM algorithm provider
Plugins
- QGIS Python console
- QGIS Plugins
- Using QGIS Core Plugins
- Coordinate Capture Plugin
- DB Manager Plugin
- Dxf2Shp Converter Plugin
- eVis Plugin
- GDAL Tools Plugin
- Geometry Checker Plugin
- Geometry Snapper Plugin
- Georeferencer Plugin
- Heatmap Plugin
- Interpolation Plugin
- MetaSearch Catalog Client
- Offline Editing Plugin
- Oracle Spatial GeoRaster Plugin
- Raster Terrain Analysis Plugin
- Road Graph Plugin
- Spatial Query Plugin
- Topology Checker Plugin
- Zonal Statistics Plugin
Help and Support
- Mailing lists
- IRC
- BugTracker
- Blog
- Plugins
- Wiki
Contributors
- Authors
- Translators
Appendix
- GNU General Public License
- GNU Free Documentation License
Literature and Web References

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QGIS User Guide¶