At this second-to-last post of the course to learn the base of the Geographic Information Systems through practical exercises with Game of Thrones data we are going to work with the “Map” document.
A Layout document is a set of design elements of a map, organized in a virtual page, the objective of which is its graphical output (printing or exporting to PDF file). The elements that we see in the design are the elements that are printed or exported to the PDF file, being in the same paper size that we have selected on the screen. We can add two different type of elements in a Layout: Cartographic elements and design ones.
In our case we are going to create a map with the path followed by Greyjoy brothers, that we drew in the post about “Graphical editing“. Continue reading



As you may know, gvpy is a gvsig library that help us with the execution of geoprocesses. Thus, geoprocesses added in our gvSIG Toolbox can be executed from a script with a single line of code.







