short announcement: QGIS 2.0.1 Dufour now available on Ubuntu
Times are changing and so should a GIS. Since a long time there was the announcement to release QGIS 2.0 to the public by June. But as there were some blockers in the roadmap the release date was not...
View ArticleInstall QGIS 2.0 on Ubuntu
Today QGIS 2.0 was officially released and we will come up with several tutorials in the next weeks. First of all: the installation. As we are fans of open source we would like to show you the...
View ArticleBericht von der FOSS4G 2013 aus Nottingham
Till Adams von Terrestris hat auf dem Portal XING einen schönen Bericht zur diesjährigen Konferenz für freie und offene Software in den Geobereichen (FOSS4G) in Nottingham erstellt. Mit seinem...
View ArticleQGis Tutorial – Teil 6: Verbinden von Shape- mit CSV-Dateien (tablejoin)
Der sechste Teil eines Tutorials zu essentiellen Arbeiten mit Geographischen Informationssystemen (GIS) unter Verwendung vom openSource Quantum GIS (QGIS). Das Programm könnt ihr euch hier kostenlos...
View ArticleBerlin und Open Data: ein Vorstoß
Die wichtigste Nachricht vorne weg: Mit dem 01. Oktober gibt das Land Berlin sukzessive seine Geodaten frei. Damit setzt das Land Berlin zusammen mit Hamburg einen weiteren Meilenstein für die Open...
View ArticleInstallation of QGIS 2.0 Dufour on Windows
The installation of QGIS 2.0 is fairly easy on Ubuntu but much easier using Windows as an operating system. The installer is very handy and is provided by the OSGEO4W project (Open Source Geospatial...
View Articlegeoreferencing images in QGIS using OSM data: how to distort the City
You probably already referenced maps with written coordinates but using photos or images is a little different as you need some characteristic points so you can control the position of the image...
View ArticleLabels in QGIS 2.0: selektiv beschriften
Da in der QGIS-Version 2.0 die Funktion „nur gewählte Objekte beschriften“ nicht mehr existiert, soll ein Workaround nur bestimmte Objekte des Shapefiles beschriften, ohne ein neues Shapefile...
View ArticleLabels in QGIS 2.0: selective labelling
Because the function „label selected features only“ does not exist anymore in QGIS, a workaround should just label specific features of the shapefile without exporting a new one. For this only the...
View ArticleQGis Tutorial – Teil 7: Einbindung von WMS-Diensten im GIS (WMS, WCS, WFS)
Der siebente Teil eines Tutorials zu essentiellen Arbeiten mit Geographischen Informationssystemen (GIS) unter Verwendung vom openSource Quantum GIS (QGIS). Das Programm könnt ihr euch hier kostenlos...
View Articlecreate 3D visualizations: QGIS, GRASS and NVIZ
3D is soooo cool… Okay let’s be honest: the exciting times of Second Life are gone and the Oculus Rift is still not in sight in the end-user stores. But it is and was always cool to create you own 2.5D...
View ArticleQGIS 2.2 and its new features
The last update of our beloved QGIS 2.0.1. version Dufour was a giant leap for a grown GIS and the next step forward is in sight. Thanks to Mrs. QGIS herself (a.k.a. Anita Graser a.k.a. underdarkGIS) I...
View Articlecreate point density raster in QGIS
In some applications you want to calculate the density of points. It sounds very easy and in fact it is using QGIS. Let me show you how. Especially, let me show you how to do this with the heatmap...
View ArticleGeonews Januar 2014: Ausblick 2014, Echtzeit Erdaufnahmen,...
Wir von digital-geography.com sind sehr stolz, dass wir ab sofort die deutsche Übersetzung der berühmten Slashgeo Batch Geonews übernehmen dürfen. Seit 2005 erreicht das Team um Alexandre Leroux...
View ArticleLes outils de GRASS sous Quantum Gis
Quantum Gis intégre de nombreux outils issus du SIG GRASS. Cela constitue plus de 200 outils qui sont utilisables directement sous Quantum Gis. Il est possible de croiser les outils disponibles sous...
View ArticleQGIS 2.2 is coming. Be prepared!
The undercover GIS queen “Underdark” a.k.a. Anita Graser came up with this headline today and we had seen some little insight in the upcoming QGIS release already. So it is in the OSGeo4W installer but...
View Articleexport your qgis project to a webmap with qgis2leaf
It was just a small idea but I haven’t slept much since it came to my mind to build a plugin fo QGIS. It should create a basic webmap from your current layers without coding and with popup...
View ArticleQGis Tutorial 8: OpenStreetMap (OSM) – Import und Export mit QGis
QGis Tutorial 8: OpenStreetMap (OSM) – Import und Export mit QGis Tutorial 1: Georeferenzierung von Karten mit QGis Tutorial 2: Erstellung einer topographischen Karte Tutorial 3: Konvertierung von...
View ArticleInstallation of QGIS 2.0 Dufour on Windows
The installation of QGIS 2.0 is fairly easy on Ubuntu but much easier using Windows as an operating system. The installer is very handy and is provided by the OSGEO4W project (Open Source Geospatial...
View Articlegeoreferencing images in QGIS using OSM data: how to distort the City
You probably already referenced maps with written coordinates but using photos or images is a little different as you need some characteristic points so you can control the position of the image...
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