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Create custom markers with R for your webmap
When it comes to webmapping there are thousands of possible markers you can choose from but when it comes to markers depending on the data, which is inside the shapefile, possibilities are more...
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I’ve been experimenting with very short QGIS tips on YouTube, and if you like them I’ll continue to create them. They may or may not reveal something extraordinary, and if you have an idea of something...
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QGIS 2.8: A Preview
QGIS 2.6 landed recently on this planet and it already brought great improvements to our daily work with geodata, the way we publish our results and the convenience in our workflows. But due to the...
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Posts 2014: our Top Ten List
Yesterday I received the mail from Anita Graser’s blog about the best 10 articles on QGIS planet. Therefore I decided to have a look on our own top ten list of most read articles this year. And I have...
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Python in QGIS and ArcGIS: A Small Example
Often the usage of GIS never touches the world of programming and I think a lot of GIS users today feel fine with using simple tools and try to avoid tools like Python for their daily work. Despite any...
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Create A Raster Layer Index With QGIS And GDAL
When working with raster datasets, it is hard to keep an overview of the raster files in use and their coverage. Most raster data providers may keep metadata in the filename itself, like path, row and...
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Creating ARCs in QGIS: The Python Way
So I came across this nice little project which focussed on trip planning and route over large distances… And there was this nice little post from Nathan Yau at flowingdata.com where he describes the...
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Short Announcement: QGIS 2.8 Wien released
QGIS 2.8 (the new “Long Term Release”) was released a few days ago. It is a minor release according to the changelog but it will be supported in this setup at least for the next year: Some good news...
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How to create a wind map in QGIS
A few days ago I saw Franz Leonardo’s post on the ArcGIS group on facebook: He visualised wind speed and direction in ArcGIS for a wind map and I thought by myself: let’s do it with QGIS… Here is the...
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Map excel data for free – 5 steps to your own print- and webmap
To map excel data onto a print- or webmap is one of the most needed and chosen data preparations. Companies and scientists are often highly interested in located table datasets on maps. In this how to...
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Landsat in Love with QGIS: the newest coup from Luca
The normal way of getting Landsat data for your GIS projects often was: visit a Landsat data mart like landcover.org, earthexplorer or WIST, search for your area and time and download/order your...
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Happy B-Day QGIS2leaf
When I started to work on QGIS2leaf about one year ago it was a nice idea and my first real dive into Python programming and using the possibilities of pyqgis. So what is the current state and where...
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share your qgis project: the relocator plugin
Since I developed qgis2leaf together with some great supporters we always struggled with sharing a qgis project: we use different layers, different visualizations and so on. It’s not easy to make sure...
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The Geography of Tweets: Reading Tweets with QGIS
Anita showed some nice examples of tweets in QGIS in 2012. Since then it seemed to be quiet about the twitter-content in QGIS. Yet tweets can be an interesting source of information. Sometimes they can...
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Routing in QGIS … with Google
Routing in QGIS was, as far as I know, always dependent on an available network. Either you had some database which was pgrouting enabled, or you had some network and used this via the roadgraph...
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Routing in QGIS… with OSM
Routing with Google is quite cool as the database/network is probably the best currently available. But the terms of services limit the possible usage. So what about OpenStreetMap? By figuring out how...
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Attention: QGIS 2.10 is coming!
Four months ago QGIS 2.8 was released. The Long Term Release will be suppported for the next 2 years. Besides this LTR version QGIS is updated in a four month cycle. So let’s say hello to QGIS 2.10....
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Show your Photos in QGIS and ArcGIS: a small example
Hi guys. Once again I found an interesting question in our Geoscientists group on facebook. One user wanted to show her photos in QGIS as she is it used from Google Maps: See a point, click on it and...
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The QGIS survey needs input!
The free and open source gis QGIS started an user survey on its online webpage. The project needs your input to get the best necessary community information for prioritising future adjustments and...
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Short Announcement: my top 5 features of QGIS 2.12
QGIS is under steady development and with the new release QGIS 2.12 we get some interesting and also visible changes in QGIS. What are the best improvements? Check them out here and decide whether to...
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