Hi Andreas,
Thank you for your kind help!About the documentation development, I do have a
thought: Wikipedia outgrew Encyclopedia Brittanica by letting users
contributing to the evolution of its product. QGIS is a worthy project with
limited funding sources.Maybe QGIS could also opensource its documentation and
make it a wiki edition? I would surely be glad to join the QGIS-wiki effort.
Kuan
On Tuesday, June 14, 2016 3:49 PM, "Neumann, Andreas" <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi Kuan,There is a newer manual available (still under development),
targetting version 2.14. You can find it at
http://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/For your specific problem - have a look at
the "Size assistant":
http://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/user_manual/working_with_vector/vector_properties.html#proportional-symbol-and-multivariate-analysis
When you complain about the poor state of documentation, there are multiple
ways of contributing:- help improving the documentation by providing pull
requests- donate some money so others can work on documentation- hire a person
that improves certain aspects of the documentationPlease do not compare ArcGIS
with QGIS documentation - because ArcGIS documentation is created from a
company with approx. 3200 employees and annual revenues >1 billion US $ per
year, whereas QGIS is run primarily from part-time developers and volunteers -
with available funds and sponsored development in the lower 6 figure euros per
year - distributed over several companies and the global QGIS.ORG
organization.Also - please understand that - unlike some other companies or
projekcts - QGIS is not copying ArcGIS - so it is quite natural that the terms
are different, as well as the UIFinally: QGIS is not a product. It is a project
- and everybody is welcome to improve and contribute.Hope this helps,AndreasOn
2016-06-14 09:25, Kuan Song wrote:
Dear community, I hope to seek help with QGIS functionality on symbology. The
goal is to create simple maps with variable-sized symbols for a polygon map.
For example: a map of counties, with bubbles on top indicating the population
size in each county. This can be very easily with ArcMap, but is not very easy
with QGIS. Yes I know it should be under the 'styles' tab, and it has something
to do with adding a new symbol. But the part that's baffling with the user
interface is: how do I link a symbol size to a data column in the data
shapefile? Yes I know there is a QGIS manual. However, the current manual is
very outdated. Many parts of it are simply copies of the manual from older
versions, and are utterly useless. For example:
http://docs.qgis.org/2.8/en/docs/training_manual/basic_map/symbology.html shows
a different UI layout to the current software 2.14. This is a trivial and
elementary problem. I feel ashamed asking this question. I'm sure many people
have encountered it before. Could someone point me to a page where I can find a
walk-through with actual screenshots of the current QGIS version? That'll be
very helpful. Thank you. And again, to the QGIS developers: Please do not let
poor documentation ruin a fine software product...... YoursKuan
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