qgis and altas: automatic map generation
DESCRIPTION
Talk given by David McDermott of Surrey Health BC at the South-East QGIS user group meeting 2nd April 2014TRANSCRIPT
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QGIS and Atlas: Automatic map generationDavid McDermott Surrey Heath Borough Council
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HistoryDeveloped by Vincent Picavet
Distributed as a Plugin
Required QGIS 1.6 or above
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What is it?Automated map book generator
Uses a map layer containing geometries
Dynamically changes to view extent of a map object
Map composer templates
PDF or Image format
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Equivalents• ArcGIS has Data Drive Pages • Cadcorp SIS has Book Plotter • QGIS has Atlas
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Coverage layer (point, line or polygon)
Composer Template
Map Object
Visibility
Margins
Dynamic text labels
Atlas plugin features
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QGIS 2.0 DufourAll of the Atlas plugin features
Integrated into QGIS core
Feature filtering
Feature sorting
Fixed scaling
File name expression
Improved dynamic labels
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Expressions -Fields and Values
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Expressions - Records
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Dynamic composer labels
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QGIS 2.2 ValmieraAll of the QGIS 2.0 features plus...
Feature highlighting
Preview mode
Improved Export
Improved extent control
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Featrure Highlighting
Improved Extent Control
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Featrure Highlighting
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Dynamic feature labels
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BugsSave As...
Map extent (stand alone installer)
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Thank you