Exercise – 4 / Map Composition Map composition for Printing or Graphic Export QGIS has a powerful tool called Print Composer that allows you to take your GIS layers and package them to create maps . Setting up a Map Layout Now that we have a map with symbology & labels display (See Figure 67 - Map after displaying Labels) it’s time to prepare a Basic Map composition. Choose Project → New Print Layout → Provide a title to the print layout → Click on OK . New layout window will be created. Figure 69 - New Print Layout window Go to Layout → Page Setup → Provide page size, print source and orientation and click on OK. Figure 70 – Page Setup Window Inserting a Title, North Arrow, Scale Bar and Legend Choose Add item in the menu bar and select Add Map, black cursor will be display, drag the cursor from top left corner to bottom right corner to add the map displayed in the canvas. After adding map to layout create borders around the map; Select the layout Go...
This blog is to learn basic concepts of GIS in Telugu. We will teach ARCGIS, ARCMAP, QGIS, Opensource Geoserver in simple and understandable language.