Qgis Plugins Supporting tagline
1. Installing QGIS extensions, modules
As Open-Source software, QGIS users and developers familiar with programming can develop and provide the communty with additionnal features as extension modules (plugin). Plugins are stored in repositories (servers hosting QGIS modules contributors).
In this tutorial, we will see how to install and activate new plugins (here, ‘Statist’ that allows to plot values histogram).
File used in that tutorial:
/dss_course_dataset/qgis/1-basics/ne_10m_populated_places_simple.shp (world main cities)See video tutorial either on your local copy or on YouTube QGIS-Installing new plugins
2. List of QGIS plugins to be installed and activated
Note 1: note that some of them are installed by default)
- ftools (Tools for vector analysis and management)
- TableManager (Manages attribute table structure)
- GdalTools (Advanced tools for raster layer analysis and management)
- OpenLayersPlugin (Allows to visualize GoogleMap layers, including satellite imagery directly into QGIS. Among others …)
- Statist (Allows to visualize attribute data histograms)
Note 2: Some plugins might have been installed but not activated Check for instance that ‘Add Delimited Text Layer’ has been activated (allows to import “.csv” data into QGIS)