mapactionpy-qgis 0.2.4.dev40

Used to drive QGIS

What is this?

This is a planned plugin for MapChef, which will enable MapChef to produce an automated set of maps based on a recipe. Note it is not a plugin for QGIS itself.

Why is it needed?

The MapChef ArcMap plugin can produce a set of base maps, ready for publication or reuse, from a JSON ‘recipe’.

MapAction has access to SLYR (which has been generously donated by North Road). In theory, one approach would be to convert the output of the ArcMap plugin into QGIS-ready products using SLYR. However, this approach retains a dependency on Arc, which partners may not have, and potentially misses an opportunity to complete development in QGIS which - because a significant part of the MapChef code is intended to be reusable - should be reasonably straightforward to do.

Other MapChef plugins (complete and planned)

• ArcMap (in production use)
• Vector tiles (planned)
• ArcGIS Pro (planned)

Installation

It is necessary to explicitly install both the QGIS plugin and the controller (See bug #7). You must identify the appropriate python environment for your QGIS installation. To confirm

# This command must print out the module name `qgis.core` and return without error
<path/to/your/qgis/python> -c 'import qgis.core; print(qgis.core.__name__)'

These two commands are required to install the packages:

python -m pip install mapactionpy_controller
python -m pip install mapactionpy_qgis

Development

See CONTRIBUTING.md