This second edition is a major update to the original Discover QGIS 3.x title published in 2019. Since 2019, there have been 10 new QGIS releases, three of which were long-term releases. It is designed to be used in a classroom setting or by GIS professionals looking to build their skills.
If you're new to KML, explore this document and the accompanying samples files (SamplesInEarth) to begin learning about the basic structure of a KML file and the most commonly used tags. The first section describes features that can be created with the Google Earth user interface. These features include placemarks, descriptions, ground overlays, paths, and polygons. The second section describes features that require authoring KML with a text editor. When a text file is saved with a .kml or .kmz extension, Earth browsers know how to display it.
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IBCSO v2 is available for download from the PANGAEA data repository16. It comprises a variety of datasets (Table 1) ranging from digitised contours and lead line soundings to high-resolution multibeam data. If possible, the use of gridded compilations was avoided and source datasets were used instead to achieve the most consistent interpolation and prevent an overestimation of the covered area (Fig. 3). Therefore, each dataset mostly refers to a single expedition with its unique RID value16.
By the publication of Bivand et al. (2008), a few packages not written or maintained by the book authors and their nearest collaborators had begun to use sp classes. By the publication of the second edition (Bivand et al. 2013), we had seen that the number of packages depending on sp, importing from and suggesting it (in CRAN terminology for levels of dependency) had grown strongly. In late 2014, de Vries (2014) looked at CRAN package clusters from a page rank graph and found a clear spatial cluster that we had not expected. Figure 1 shows word clouds with character sizes proportional to pagerank scores for two clusters found in August 2020 among the cumulated packages held on CRAN and those published by the Bioconductor project. The left panel shows cluster 6, the spatial cluster with sp having a pagerank of 0.002196, while the right panel shows cluster 2, which is dominated by packages developed by RStudio, a commercial company. The sf package is in cluster 2, with a pagerank score of 0.000972, most likely in that cluster because it itself uses many of the functionalities of RStudio packages. The two word clouds are scaled by the largest pagerank of included packages, so the scales differ by almost an order of magnitude.
Another package affecting thinking about representation was spacetime, stacking columns for regular spatio-temporal objects with space varying faster than time. So a single earth observation band observed repeatedly would be stored in a single column in a data frame, rather than in the arguably more robust form of a four-dimensional array, with the band taking one position on the final dimension. The second edition of Bivand et al. (2013) took up all of these issues in one way or another, but after completing a spatial statistics special issue of the Journal of Statistical Software (Pebesma et al. 2015), it was time to begin fresh implementations of classes for spatial data. 2ff7e9595c
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