QGIS / Automating Processing / Overview
QGIS Desktop and other interactive GIS tools, such as ArcGIS Pro and interactive web mapping tools, are great for interactive data viewing and manipulation. However, using this approach for large amounts of data or repeated tasks is not efficient and can result in quality issues.
Many tasks can be automated, as described in the following sections:
QGIS Processing
QGIS Desktop provides tools to automate processing:
- Use the Processing menu.
- See: Automating Complex Workflows using Processing Modeler - written for QGIS 2.
Open Water Foundation GeoProcessor
The Open Water Foundation is developing an open source GeoProcessor application to automate geospatial processing. This software leverages QGIS pyQGIS Python modules and provides a flexible workflow command language.
- See: OWF GeoProcessor.