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Drawing new geometry - QGIS Tutorial
From the course: QGIS and Python for AEC
Drawing new geometry
- [Instructor] In this video, we're going to use Python to draw points, lines, and polygons into our map. So first let's add a city limit shapefile to give us some context of where these new polygons and lines are going to be drawn. The city limit here that I just dragged and dropped, I may make it more transparent in my symbology. So I'm going to set the opacity to about 25%. There we go. So it's not so dominant. So I dragged and dropped city limit and I made the opacity about 25%. This sets me up so that when I draw features it's not dominated by this polygon in the background but I wanted the city limits in the background so I can see where I am and also to show that I'm still in this same EPSG:26910 coordinate system. First let's draw a point. So in the Python console, and move this over a little bit, I'm going to open the drawPoint.py file found under the Python under 3 Geometry Handling. Let's go ahead and open that up.…
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