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I'm new to GIS and QGIS. I've looked through several of the related questions including here and here, but can't figure out a simple way to automate creating choropleths for each attribute in a shapefile using QGIS but strictly from Python. I figured this was a relatively common use case.

I gave up after about four or so hours of trying to figure it out and wrote this simple code that produces the ~300 pngs that I need:

import geopandas as gpd import matplotlib.pyplot as plt sp = gpd.read_file(<shapefile filename goes here>) column_list = sp.columns.values for i in column_list: sp.plot(column = i, cmap='Blues', alpha=1, legend=True, linewidth=0) plt.savefig(i +'.png', dpi=600,bbox_inches='tight')

Again this works fine for what I needed, but is there an implementation in QGIS? I'd like to get better with this software/package.

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Here is one method of how to do this:

  1. Define a list variable containing the field names that you want to create a choropleth on
  2. Loop over step 1 list and create an in-memory layer with the field name and populate it (attributes and features) from source layer and add it to canvas (see code example: Duplicating layer in memory using pyqgis?)
  3. Create the categorized renderer for the in-memory layer (see code example: Apply symbol to each feature (Categorized symbol))
  4. Continue looping steps 2-3
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