Hi Kuan, Good news for you, that already is the case :)
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Documentation If you need any questions, don't hesitate to ask here again. Cheers Matthias On 06/14/2016 11:03 AM, Kuan Song wrote: > 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 documentation > Please 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 UI > Finally: QGIS is not a product. It is a project - and everybody is > welcome to improve and contribute. > Hope this helps, > Andreas > On 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...... >> >> >> Yours >> Kuan >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-user mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >> Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user -- Matthias Kuhn OPENGIS.ch - https://www.opengis.ch Spatial • (Q)GIS • PostGIS • Open Source
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