[QGIS Commit] r10032 - in trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics: .
images
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Tue Jan 27 06:05:17 EST 2009
Author: dassau
Date: 2009-01-27 06:05:17 -0500 (Tue, 27 Jan 2009)
New Revision: 10032
Added:
trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics/images/geoprocessing.png
Modified:
trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics/article.tex
trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics/images/Makefile
Log:
more text and figures
Modified: trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics/article.tex
===================================================================
--- trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics/article.tex 2009-01-27 10:45:41 UTC (rev 10031)
+++ trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics/article.tex 2009-01-27 11:05:17 UTC (rev 10032)
@@ -50,23 +50,42 @@
process and sharing knowledge, contacting developers directly instead of going through
these community based avenues of communication is frowned apon.
-\subsection{Functionality}
+\subsection{Graphical User Interface}
-QGIS offers a growing number of common GIS functionality provided by core
-features and plugins. They are presented in a friendly graphical user
-interface, clearly seperated into a menu bar, tool bars, status bar, map view,
-overview, and map legend (see Figure~\ref{fig:qgis10}).
+Working with QGIS is simple and intuitive as you are presented with a
+modern and friendly graphical user interface (GUI) based on QT4. All
+functionalities are clearly seperated (see Figure~\ref{fig:qgis10}).
\begin{figure}[h]
\begin{center}
\caption{Quantum GIS 1.0.0 'Kore'}\label{fig:qgis10}\smallskip
- \includegraphics[clip=true, width=\textwidth]{qgis10}
+ \includegraphics[clip=true, width=12cm]{qgis10}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
-The menu and tool bars give access to all QGIS features and at a glance
-provide following features:
+A \textbf{menu bar} provides access to QGIS features using a standard
+hierarchical menu, with icons of the corresponding tools as they appear on
+the tool bar and with keyboard shortcuts. The \textbf{tool bar} icons provide
+direct access to functions of the menu bar, plus additional tools for
+interacting with the map view. To make the GUI appear clearer, tool bar icons
+can be switched on and off. The 'business end' of QGIS is the \textbf{map
+view}. Various operations can be performed on the map, such as pan, zoom-in,
+zoom-out, select or query. It is tightly bound to the \textbf{map legend},
+where layer visibility is managed and set to a z-order, meaning layers
+listed nearer the top of the legend are drawn over layers listed lower down.
+The \textbf{map overview} area provides a full extent view of selected layers
+with a rectangle showing the current map extent in the map view. And the
+\textbf{status bar} finally shows the current mouse pointer position in map
+coordinates, view extents of the map view, the progress of rendering or
+analysis activities, the current map scale depending on the defined
+Coordinate Reference System (CRS) and information about available external
+plugin updates.
+\subsection{Functionality}
+
+QGIS offers a growing number of common GIS functionality provided by core
+features and plugins and at a glance provide following features:
+
\begin{itemize}
\item view and overlay vector and raster layer in different formats and
projections without conversion to an internal or common format. Supported are
@@ -87,6 +106,14 @@
complete GRASS functionality of more than 300 modules.
\end{itemize}
+\begin{figure}[h]
+ \begin{center}
+ \caption{QGIS Geoprocessing Tools}
+ \label{fig:geoprocessing}\smallskip
+ \includegraphics[clip=true, width=8cm]{geoprocessing}
+\end{center}
+\end{figure}
+
\subsection{Plugin Architecture}
QGIS has been designed with a plugin architecture and therefore new
@@ -110,19 +137,31 @@
\end{center}
\end{figure}
-\textbf{External Plugins} are all written in Python. They are stored in
-an official, external repository and maintained by the individual author. The
-user can easily add those Plugins to QGIS with the Python Plugin Installer
-(See Figure~\ref{fig:python-plugin}).
+\textbf{External Plugins} are all written in Python and devided into official
+and user contributed plugins. The user can easily add those Plugins to QGIS
+with the Python Plugin Installer (See Figure~\ref{fig:python-plugin}).
+\begin{itemize}
+\item \textbf{Official} external python plugins are stored in an official,
+moderated repository at \url{http://pyqgis.org/repo/official} as part of the
+official QGIS release and maintained by the individual author.
+\item \textbf{User-Contributed} external python plugins are stored in an
+unofficial repository at \url{http://pyqgis.org/repo/contributed} and contain
+plugins that are not yet mature enough but on the way to the official
+repository.
+\end{itemize}
+
+Beside these two respositories a few QGIS developers provide and maintain
+their own repositories. They can be added to the repository list of the
+Python Plugin Installer.
+
\begin{figure}[h]
\begin{center}
\caption{QGIS Python Plugin Installer}\label{fig:python-plugin}\smallskip
- \includegraphics[clip=true, width=\textwidth]{python-plugin-installer}
+ \includegraphics[clip=true, width=14cm]{python-plugin-installer}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
-
\subsection{Development}
QGIS 1.0 provides a stable API from which custom solutions in Python or C++
Modified: trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics/images/Makefile
===================================================================
--- trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics/images/Makefile 2009-01-27 10:45:41 UTC (rev 10031)
+++ trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics/images/Makefile 2009-01-27 11:05:17 UTC (rev 10032)
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@
python-plugin-installer.eps\
grass-plugin.eps\
qgis10.eps\
-
+ geoprocessing.eps\
+
##### TARGETS #####
all: $(PNG)
Added: trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics/images/geoprocessing.png
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Property changes on: trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics/images/geoprocessing.png
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Name: svn:mime-type
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