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<p>Hi Kuan,</p>
<p>Good news for you, that already is the case :)<br>
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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Documentation">https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Documentation</a></p>
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<p>If you need any questions, don't hesitate to ask here again.<br>
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<p>Cheers</p>
<p>Matthias<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 06/14/2016 11:03 AM, Kuan Song
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465888187416_17259">Hi Andreas,</div>
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<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>
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<div dir="ltr">Kuan</div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"> On Tuesday,
June 14, 2016 3:49 PM, "Neumann, Andreas"
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:a.neumann@carto.net"><a.neumann@carto.net></a> wrote:<br>
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<div>Hi Kuan,</div>
<div>There is a newer manual available (still under
development), targetting version 2.14. You can
find it at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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 moz-do-not-send="true"
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>
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<div>On 2016-06-14 09:25, Kuan Song wrote:</div>
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id="yiv6259322212yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465888187416_6335">Dear
community,</div>
<div
id="yiv6259322212yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465888187416_6386"> </div>
<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>
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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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id="yiv6259322212yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465888187416_6581"> </div>
<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 moz-do-not-send="true"
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>
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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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id="yiv6259322212yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465888187416_6723"> </div>
<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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id="yiv6259322212yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465888187416_6743"> </div>
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<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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