Extend the functionality of QGIS with your own custom plugins
What you'll learn
- How to create your own custom plugins for QGIS in order to automate your processes and extend the functionality of QGIS.
Requirements
- This is not a course for beginners. You will need a thorough understanding of QGIS, Python, the PyQGIS python package, and GUI development with PyQt5
Description
This course will provide a thorough introduction to QGIS plugin development starting with the most basic plugins to advanced plugins, map tool plugins, processing plugins and more. We will touch on the entire ecosystem of tools used to create plugins including Qt Designer and the QGIS specific Qt Widgets, the Plugin Builder 3 plugin for creating the basic plugin template files, the First Aid plugin for debugging plugins within QGIS, the pb_tool command line tool for building, packaging, and deploying your plugin, the Sphinx system for documentation, Git and Github for verion control, collaboration, and issue tracking, and much more.
Who this course is for:
- QGIS users who would like to extend the functionality of QGIS in order to automate their geospatial processes and eliminate repetitive drudgery.
