Overview and Example Exercise

Now that we have created some maps within QGIS, we may wish to export these as static images that we could include in a presentation, article, or book. QGIS offers a couple of options for doing so, depending on much detail you would like to include alongside the map.

We can quickly export our map without adding any metadata by using the Import/Export feature in the Project menu.

On the other hand, if we wish to add metadata, including a title, legend, and scale bar, we can create a Print Layout.

It is up to you to choose which map you would like to export in this chapter. Choose from among the ones we have completed thus far. As an example, we will create a layout of the 1935 inventory region filtered and graduated layer that we created in Chapter 2: Copying a Project and Layer Styling. The main focus of the map will be Eastern Prince County, with a specific concentration on the town of Kensington—a community that only began in the late-nineteenth century once the interior of the Island had been sufficiently cleared of trees (and once the PEI Railway was built—but that is another story).