Are there any tools / plugins to develop mapbooks using QGIS?
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This is something that I plan to do in the future at some time, but if someone else is/has already done work on it then that would be sweet. – Nathan W Dec 30 '10 at 01:07
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I was just reading the QGIS User List yesterday and came across the following post:
I started adding some mapbook functionality [to the EasyPrint Plugin]:
i) Mapbook by grid: You have to create the regular grid first. Paper format, layout, scale etc. values are taken from standard easyprint tab ("simplemap"). You can also choose some overlap percentage. After creating the grid layer you can export the maps. There are some additional parameters like adding adjacent tile indicator to the map or creating an overview map.
ii) Mapbook by feature: This will zoom to the extent of every feature of a specific layer. You can use the layers attributes for setting the title, subtitle, scale and rotation. Scale and rotation will be ignored for polygon and linestring layers.
I gave it a try and it works really well. Mind you I just made a simple mapbook by zooming to polygon features, but it created them in PDF. My only wish is that instead of creating a separate PDF for each "page", it was merged into a single PDF document. It is definitely worth a look!
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1There is an extensive post on creating mapbooks using this plugin at http://darrencope.com/2011/11/22/map-books-in-qgis/. – underdark Nov 22 '11 at 15:40
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The old link is gone. I am updating the answer with print composer from 2.0
Print composer has new features.
One of those being map series generation
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hmm. does anybody have access to that forum data any more? I wonder if it is the same thread Ryan references here. – Brad Nesom Dec 11 '13 at 17:26
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Perhaps @dassouki could accept Ryan's answer and I will delete mine. – Brad Nesom Dec 11 '13 at 17:30