Chapter 5. Managing and Organizing Geographic Data

Now that we have an up-and-running explorative application, we can move on to developing some more day-to-day practical features. A common task for users of geographic data is to prepare, clean, restructure, and organize data. In this chapter, you will do the following:

• Create a window for inspecting the basic properties of each layer
• Build some convenience functions for commonly needed management tasks, and later add them to the user interface. These functions are as follows:
  • Operations on individual layers being available when the user right-clicks on each layer in the LayersPane widget (splitting, geometry cleaning, and resampling)
  • Batch operations on multiple layers available as buttons in the top ribbon area (merging and mosaicking)
• Assign dialogue windows to set the parameters when running each tool