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2. Wikipedia : Graphics Lab/Resources/QGIS/Get ready

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   For Wikipedia, the advantages of GIS maps are precision, reliability, consistency, and an upgrade in visual elegance of the final images. Using QGis will be mainly helpful in generating topographic backgrounds (png, svg), shaded reliefs (png), and administrative regions or borders (png, svg), and applying various styles to them.

3. Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Resources/OpenJUMP/Create a general map

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   Cropping the map. 5. Now the map will be cropped using the Edit -> Clip map to Fence command. In the next step click OK. Style editing. 6. This is a proper time to edit the style of our layers. This is done from the Change Styles menu (Change Styles icon on the top level menu bar or right-click on layer Style -> Change Styles). Remove the Fill ...

4. Geographic information system - Wikipedia

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   Depicted hardware (field-map technology) is used mainly for forest inventories, monitoring and mapping. GIS data acquisition includes several methods for gathering spatial data into a GIS database, which can be grouped into three categories: primary data capture, the direct measurement phenomena in the field (e.g., remote sensing, the global ...

5. Web mapping - Wikipedia

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   Web mapping or an online mapping is the process of using, creating, and distributing maps on the World Wide Web (the Web), usually through the use of Web geographic information systems (Web GIS). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] A web map or an online map is both served and consumed, thus, web mapping is more than just web cartography , it is a service where ...

6. Cartographic design - Wikipedia

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   After this, the cartographer compiles the data and experiments with the many different methods of map design and production (including generalization, symbolization, and other production methods) in an attempt to encode and portray the data on a map that will allow the map user to decode and interpret the map in the way that matches the ...

7. QGIS - Wikipedia

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   QGIS also makes it simple to share and publish geospatial data as maps, online services, or print maps in a variety of file formats, such as shapefiles, GeoTIFFs, and KML files. Screenshot of Print Composer. In order to prepare printed map with QGIS, Print Layout is used. It can be used for adding multiple map views, labels, legends, etc.

8. Vector overlay - Wikipedia

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   Vector overlay is an operation (or class of operations) in a geographic information system (GIS) for integrating two or more vector spatial data sets. Terms such as polygon overlay, map overlay, and topological overlay are often used synonymously, although they are not identical in the range of operations they include.

9. Geovisualization - Wikipedia

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   Traditional, static maps have a limited exploratory capability; the graphical representations are inextricably linked to the geographical information beneath. GIS and geovisualization allow for more interactive maps; including the ability to explore different layers of the map, to zoom in or out, and to change the visual appearance of the map ...