Installing QGIS via osgeo4w

June 20, 2012 QGIS Dutch Community

Most of the Windows users will install QGIS via the so called ‘stand alone installer’ which they download from download.qgis.org. For most of the users this is the easiest and most well know way to install a desktop program. But … Continue reading →

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Bar charts with legend

May 2, 2012 QGIS Dutch Community

This article describes how to create a map with bar charts and a legend. Required software Quantum GIS (qgis.org) LegendSVG (qgis.nl) Inkscape (optional) (inkscape.org) Required files Map layer with areas Map layer with data As an example, a vector map … Continue reading →

by Sake Wagenaar at 4:43 PM under qgis , tips1 (Comments)

Edit or merge several features at once / advanced digitizing

February 12, 2012 QGIS Dutch Community

Sometimes you find new QGIS functionality when a user asks you a question. Somebody working with house geometries was looking for a way to copy the same attributes to a set of selected houses. He was looking if certain types … Continue reading →

by Richard Duivenvoorde (Webmapper) at 2:33 PM under qgis (Comments)

A color style scheme for the Dutch Top10NL Topography

February 10, 2012 QGIS Dutch Community

When opening a geo-file for the first time in QGIS, random colors are assigned to the points, lines, and polygons. QGIS offers excellent features to design and use color style schemes. This article describes how to do this, with the … Continue reading →

by janwillemvanaalst at 9:01 PM under kleuren , kleurenschema , opmaak , qgis , qml , top10nl (Comments)

Using edit forms in QGIS

February 9, 2012 QGIS Dutch Community

QGIS has something called forms to make it easier to change te attributes of an object. This article is about the use of these forms. As exampel we use a dutch dataset of the houses of the netherlands (BAG) which … Continue reading →

by Richard Duivenvoorde (Webmapper) at 4:19 PM under qgis (Comments)

Create legend with LegendSVG

February 3, 2012 QGIS Dutch Community

QGIS does not create a proper legend for maps with pie charts or circles with variable size. I wrote a program to produce legends in Scalable Vector Format (SVG). In the QGIS Composer, the result can be added to the … Continue reading →

by Sake Wagenaar at 9:32 PM under qgis , tips1 (Comments)