GIS.lab user documentation

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Comprehensive documentation to GIS.lab Desktop, Web and Mobile (see Gisquick) clients - client environment, spatial and non spatial data usage, processing, analysis and GIS.lab project creation.

Desktop client

Launch

• GIS.lab account - how to get account
• Login
• Logout and shutdown

  Environment overview

• Panel - running applications, virtual desktops, keyboard layouts, sound
• Desktop
• System information bar - conky

  Applications

• General usage applications - LO, Gimp, Chat, ...
• GIS.lab applications - QGIS, GRASS (just basic description, more in GIS project)

  Storage

• Home directory structure - Booster, Barrel, Publish, Projects, Repository ...
• Personal database - SpatiaLite
• Shared database - PostGIS

  System settings and statistics

• Desktop client settings
• GIS.lab statistics

  GIS project

  Files structure

• Projects directory, root directory, files structure

  Basic configuration

• title
• coordinate system
• on-the-fly reprojection
• metadata

  Base layers

• OSM
• WMS
• metadata

  Overlay layers

• vector data - list of formats, metadata
• raster data - - list of formats, metadata
• tabular data - list of formats, metadata
• attribute table

  Vector data management

  ESRI Shapefile

• new layer
• altering attribute table structure

  Database storage

• viewing SpatiaLite and PostgreSQL tables in DB Manager
• new SpatiaLite layer
• new PostgreSQL layer
• altering SpatiaLite table structure
• altering PostgreSQL table structure

  Editing vector layers

• drawing new vector objects
• updating existing vector objects
• updating attribute data

  Map

• identification
• search
• print templates
• publishing for Web and Mobile clients (see Gisquick)

Format: Sphinx RTF

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See gislab-doc repository for progress.