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ILWIS GIS – Tutorial I [Introduction]
Today I’ll start with a new series of tutorials for an open Source GIS called “ILWIS GIS“. ILWIS is the short term for “Integrated Land and Water Information System” developed at the ITC Enschede and...
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The new version of qgis2leaf
The last post about our famous qgis2leaf plugin showed a glimpse of what it is capable of: exporting all your features from a QGIS project to a working leaflet based webmap. Sounds great, huh? Well it...
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Vintage Themed Maps in QGIS
Vintage Design in QGIS 2.2 Hello again! Thanks for taking a look at this post on how to create a Vintage Themed Maps in QGIS 2.2. Now for this process I am using QGIS 2.2 on Ubuntu 14.04, I only...
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Top 5 QGIS Plugins
I have been using QGIS 2.2 for most of my GIS work for about 3 months now, so I have noticed that I keep on using some plugins over and over and I really wouldn’t be able live without them. So here is...
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reproject and filetype change in python/pyqgis for QGIS plugin
In my current work on the qgis2leaf plugin I had the idea to place raster data on a leaflet map as an image overlay. With this in mind and looking at a webmap I needed to consider a good filesize, a...
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regular spaced points… interpolation madness…
The geodata department of the city of Berlin offers a great portfolio of free geodata for everyone to use. One dataset is the result of some LIDAR measurements and is offered as a txt with x,y and d...
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QGis Tutorial: webmap creation with QGis, QGis2leaf and GoogleSpreadsheet
Introduction This tutorial will explain you how to create your own, interactive webmap in a fast and easy way! Such webmaps are used zo visualize e.g. adresses on digital maps. I’m using QGis 2.4 +...
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create 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...
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QGis Tutorial: webmap creation with QGis, QGis2leaf and MMQGIS
Introduction This tutorial will explain you how to create your own, interactive webmap in a fast and easy way! Such webmaps are used zo visualize e.g. adresses on digital maps. I’m using QGis 2.4 +...
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Military Expenditure on a map
Statistical data for a geographer is fun! War is not! Regardless what you think of the military it never hurts to be informed, so… Lets play a bit with military expenditure statistics. I’m using data...
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Exploring OSM Israel/Palestine
In this post I’ll show how to explore (or data mine) Open Street Map data and use features off-line that normally can be hard to get. Many use http://download.geofabrik.de to download zipped shapefiles...
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Creating models in QGIS
You’ve probably heard of model builder in ESRI ArcGIS (even used it?), but did you know the same functionality is available in QGIS? Image showing the “Processing Toolbox” in the background right and...
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QGIS 2.6 – Sneak Peak
The release of QGIS 2.6 is planned for October 24, but you don’t have to wait to test new functions in development. In this post I’ll look closer on two new features that in my mind will make GIS life...
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digital’s digest – 37/2014: compare google with OSM, balloon and kite...
Digital’s digest – This new post series gives you a weekly overview about new exciting geo-, project- and gis-links. We should write about a special link? Please submit it in the comments. Find former...
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QGIS 2.6 Feature Freeze
Are you curious about QGIS 2.6? Well on Friday (9-26) QGIS development goes into feature freeze and focus will shift towards fixing bugs and enhancing stability. What can we expect from the upcoming...
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DEM comparison: SRTM 3 vs. ASTER GDEM v2
Let’s get ready to rumble! No, just kidding. We are all excited about the recent message from the white house: SRTM “1” (1 equals 1 arcsecond, whereas 3 was indicating the 3 arcsecond a.k.a. 90m DEM)...
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OpenStreetmap is the fastest growing community mapping project of all times. Beside the “normal” map result, what you can use for your daily navigation through cities and countries like Google Maps,...
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QGIS 2.6 Now Available
At least for Linux…[update: and Windows!] QGIS 2.6 splash screen For Windows and Mac it’s just a question of time… For Ubuntu, follow instructions on QGIS Ubuntu Downloads or if you already have an...
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QGIS 2.6: insights
Yesterday QGIS 2.6 Brighton was released. Now all systems are supported as also KyngChaos compiled a new version for QGIS 2.6 (source). In this post, I thought myself to go through the advertised...
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Amazing styling in QGIS 2.6
Since QGIS 2.6 was released with a lot of new features and functions I’ve been testing it sporadic and have come to realise that the quality and functionality of symbol styling and labelling is so high...
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