[Qgis-user] Map books

[Andreas Neumann]

  Hi Tom,

Do you mean, you want to generate an atlas, or a serial print?

QGIS doesn't support this out of the box, but it should be somehow 
possible with Python scripting. Most of the print composer should be 
exposed for Python, so you can place all your map layout elements, such 
as scalebar, gridlines, etc. with Python, generate images and then use 
something like XSL-FO, or ODF to generate a book out of it.

A serial print would be an interesting future feature though. It would, 
for example also be nice if one could specify a linear feature (or group 
of selected features), e.g. a freeway or a powerline, and QGIS would 
automagically tile and serial print along this feature ... would be nice 
to have ;-) For a regular grid, potentially with some small overlap, it 
should be easier.

Sorry that I can't help more.

Andreas

On 8/26/10 6:06 PM, Tom White wrote:
> Hello, all.
>
> I'm trying to make map books for a volunteer fire station. I've done
> it in another (commercial) package, and it goes something like this:
>
> Divide the area up into reasonably sized rectangles, with an aspect
> ratio similar to the final page size (for instance, 2x3 arc seconds).
>
> Create page images (with labeling as detailed as possible)
> Create page feature dumps (basically a list of features on the page
> that are then tied back to an index)
>
> And from there it's imagemagick, textutils and other hacks to get it
> into a book format.
>
> Has anyone attempted to make any sort of map books with QGis, or does
> anybody know how it might be done?
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