<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465888187416_17259">Hi Andreas,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465888187416_17260"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465888187416_17261" clear="none"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465888187416_17262">Thank you for your kind help!</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465888187416_17263" dir="ltr">About
the documentation development, I do have a thought: Wikipedia outgrew
Encyclopedia Brittanica by letting users contributing to the evolution
of its product. QGIS is a worthy project with limited funding
sources.Maybe QGIS could also opensource its documentation and make it a
wiki edition? I would surely be glad to join the QGIS-wiki effort.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465888187416_17264" dir="ltr"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465888187416_17265" clear="none"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465888187416_17266" dir="ltr"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465888187416_17267" clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">Kuan</div><div><span></span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"> On Tuesday, June 14, 2016 3:49 PM, "Neumann, Andreas" <a.neumann@carto.net> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv6259322212"><div>
<div>Hi Kuan,</div>
<div>There is a newer manual available (still under development), targetting version 2.14. You can find it at <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/">http://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/</a></div>
<div>For your specific problem - have a look at the "Size assistant": <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/user_manual/working_with_vector/vector_properties.html#proportional-symbol-and-multivariate-analysis">http://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/user_manual/working_with_vector/vector_properties.html#proportional-symbol-and-multivariate-analysis</a> </div>
<div>When you complain about the poor state of documentation, there are multiple ways of contributing:</div>
<div>- help improving the documentation by providing pull requests</div>
<div>- donate some money so others can work on documentation</div>
<div>- hire a person that improves certain aspects of the documentation</div>
<div>Please do not compare ArcGIS with QGIS documentation - because ArcGIS documentation is created from a company with approx. 3200 employees and annual revenues >1 billion US $ per year, whereas QGIS is run primarily from part-time developers and volunteers - with available funds and sponsored development in the lower 6 figure euros per year - distributed over several companies and the global QGIS.ORG organization.</div>
<div>Also - please understand that - unlike some other companies or projekcts - QGIS is not copying ArcGIS - so it is quite natural that the terms are different, as well as the UI</div>
<div>Finally: QGIS is not a product. It is a project - and everybody is welcome to improve and contribute.</div>
<div>Hope this helps,</div>
<div>Andreas</div>
<div class="yiv6259322212yqt0208527041" id="yiv6259322212yqt50018"><div>On 2016-06-14 09:25, Kuan Song wrote:</div>
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<div id="yiv6259322212yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465888187416_6335">Dear community,</div>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yiv6259322212yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465888187416_6387">I hope to seek help with QGIS functionality on symbology. The goal is to create simple maps with variable-sized symbols for a polygon map. For example: a map of counties, with bubbles on top indicating the population size in each county. This can be very easily with ArcMap, but is not very easy with QGIS.</div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yiv6259322212yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465888187416_6484"> </div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yiv6259322212yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465888187416_6489">Yes I know it should be under the 'styles' tab, and it has something to do with adding a new symbol. But the part that's baffling with the user interface is: how do I link a symbol size to a data column in the data shapefile?</div>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yiv6259322212yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465888187416_6580">Yes I know there is a QGIS manual. However, the current manual is very outdated. Many parts of it are simply copies of the manual from older versions, and are utterly useless. For example: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" id="yiv6259322212yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465888187416_6756" target="_blank" href="http://docs.qgis.org/2.8/en/docs/training_manual/basic_map/symbology.html">http://docs.qgis.org/2.8/en/docs/training_manual/basic_map/symbology.html</a> shows a different UI layout to the current software 2.14. </div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yiv6259322212yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465888187416_6685"> </div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yiv6259322212yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465888187416_6722">This is a trivial and elementary problem. I feel ashamed asking this question. I'm sure many people have encountered it before. Could someone point me to a page where I can find a walk-through with actual screenshots of the current QGIS version? That'll be very helpful.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yiv6259322212yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465888187416_6740">Thank you.</div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yiv6259322212yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465888187416_6741"> </div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yiv6259322212yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465888187416_6742">And again, to the QGIS developers: Please do not let poor documentation ruin a fine software product......</div>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yiv6259322212yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465888187416_6752"> </div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yiv6259322212yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465888187416_6753">Yours</div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yiv6259322212yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465888187416_6754">Kuan</div>
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