[Qgis-user] Automating creation of county distribution maps

[Mike Breiding - Morgantown WV]

Greetings,
I want to create distribution maps by county occurrence for plant 
species found in West Virginia.

What I hope is possible is to load all the county names where a specific 
species occurs and then have a county map of West Virginia generated 
with the counties where the species occurs shaded to a particular grey 
shade and transparency.

And, while I am wishful thinking it would then be nice to have the 
output saved to a new layer and then made to a tiff file. All automated 
a much as possible.

If I do this manually I have to load the county outline and read a list 
of county occurrence and then select each one , save to a new layer, 
choose the shading color and transparency and then take a screen shot of 
the map area.

NOTE: I am newbie so if someone comes up with a way to do this I may or 
may not understand what they are talking about.


Thanks,
WV-Mike