Thank you you Lee, there are some very interesting and useful maps on both sites and I like the simple interactive map of the census data, something like that would be great for the genealogy application I am attempting as I would like to have others interact with me in viewing and uploading their own data. I would like to do something like that (much later) and did not see that QGIS had interactive web applications as part of its program.
I went to an Esri conference recently and they were promoting web based applications for mapping, this is one reason I decided to go back to QGIS even though I did not find any information on it for doing so. Overall I am very pleased with the 2.0 and the community of people willing to help. Again my thanks, I am going back to my tutorials:) Best Regards, Sasa On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Lee Hachadoorian < [email protected]> wrote: > > On 11/16/2013 03:43 PM, Dan Dittmann wrote: > >> >> On Nov 15, 2013, at 7:09 PM, Sasa Sullivan wrote: >> >> I am learning QGIS and know the general instructions on how to color >>> code areas through the Style feature but am not able to get a distinct >>> color per state for a map of the USA, maybe it is my source as I don't see >>> one listed that encompasses the state shape only. >>> Also I only need the state, city and county boundaries, if someone has a >>> scaled down Open Source shape files for the USA it would be helpful as I >>> don't have unlimited hard drive space for the ones I have found >>> >>> Sasa >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >> >> >> Hello Sasa, >> >> Without knowing where your data was obtained, I cannot speculate on the >> trouble encountered. The instructions below assume QGIS 2.01 is used and >> should be usable with adjustments on older versions as well. >> >> First lets get some data. The National Atlas website has numerous shape >> files available for download. Most of what you are looking for should be >> available fromhttp://nationalatlas.gov/atlasftp.html?openChapters=% >> 2Cchpbound#chpbound. >> >> In this demo, I will be using the State Boundaries, One Million-Scale >> layer available for download at http://dds.cr.usgs.gov/pub/ >> data/nationalatlas/statep010_nt00798.tar.gz. >> >> - Extract the archive and import the file statep010.shp into QGIS. >> - Open the Properties dialog for the imported layer. >> - Click Style from the column on the left. >> - Locate the menu "Single Symbol" and change that to "Categorized". >> - Change the Column menu to "State" Click the Classify button. >> - Click OK. >> >> You now have a basic US Map with each state colored with a unique color. >> >> Dan >> > > Sasa, > > The Census provides generalized shapes at http://www.census.gov/geo/ > maps-data/data/tiger-cart-boundary.html, in addition to the > high-precision TIGER/Line files. > > I would also look at Natural Earth which is a dataset designed for > cartography at different scales. Their "Admin 1 - States Provinces" dataset > will include the US and other countries' subnational units. Their data also > includes various "mapcolorX" columns so that you can use a categorical > theme as described by Dan to style your map with X colors, with no states > touching another state styled with the same color. > > Best, > --Lee > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >
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