Foreword
Since the QGIS project was started in 2002 by Gary Sherman, the project has done what many people would have thought to be impossible—provide a viable alternative to the incumbent de facto GIS applications that is free, open source, and accessible to everyone on this planet who owns a computer. One of the joys of contributing to and participating in the QGIS project has been watching how the community of people and the body of knowledge have grown up around the project. There are few better examples of this than the work Kurt, Rick, John, and Luigi (the four co-authors of this book) have put into Mastering QGIS.
Writing a book about QGIS is no easy task, partly because of the sheer depth of functionality that QGIS offers, and partly because ...
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