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Ireland QGIS User Group Blog: Google Map Style with “Shape Burst” effect in...
Here’s a nice looking map I created using QGIS 2.3, the testing version of QGIS. I downloaded free OpenStreetMap data and I styled it to look just like Google Maps, as per instructions published by...
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Ireland QGIS User Group Blog: CartoDB wins best “high-growth web...
CartoDB, the FOSS powered web mapping solution, was honoured at the 2014 European Web Entrepreneur of the Year Awards along with three other companies at Dublin’s Web Summit on November 7th. The...
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Ireland QGIS User Group Blog: Creating a Nautical Chart in QGIS 2.4
Continuing with a nautical theme, here is a nautical chart I creating using QGIS 2.4. It includes a Graticule in decimal degrees, a Compass Rose and a scale bar in Nautical Miles. A magnetic...
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Ireland QGIS User Group Blog: Adding ESRI’s Online World Imagery Dataset to QGIS
ESRI’s ArcGIS Online World Imagery is a high resolution satellite and aerial imagery base map for use in Google Earth, ArcMap and ArcGIS Explorer. The same excellent imagery is used by the Bing Maps...
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Ireland QGIS User Group Blog: Oceancolor Data Downloader v1.0 for QGIS
Sea Surface Temperature data downloaded by Oceancolor Data Downloader.The Oceancolor Data Downloader is a new plugin for QGIS from the Mapping and Geographic Information Centre of the British Antarctic...
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Ireland QGIS User Group Blog: Go2streetview plugin for QGIS
A very handy plugin for QGIS I use day to day is go2streetview by Enrico Ferreguti. The plugin adds an icon to the tool bar in QGIS and when selected I can click a road or street on a base map and a...
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Ireland QGIS User Group Blog: The 10th annual FOSS4G conference
The 10th annual FOSS4G conference was held from 8th-13th September in Portland, Oregon, USA. FOSS4G is the world’s premier global gathering of developers, users and key decision-makers involved in open...
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Ireland QGIS User Group Blog: Nautical Charts in QGIS – The Compass Rose
Before the advent of shipborne satellite navigation systems, navigation at sea required three precise measurements – Solar or Stellar Declination for Latitude, Time at Greenwich for Longitude and True...
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Ireland QGIS User Group Blog: The Coastal Vignette
Coastal Vignette seen on an old Irish ‘6-Inch map’Occasionally on old maps you may see a pleasing decorative effect on bodies of water called a “Coastal Vignette”, these are fine lines that highlight...
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Ireland QGIS User Group Blog: Importing CSV files into PostgreSQL using the...
There is very useful tool in QGIS that can import very large CSV files into PostgreSQL rapidly and reliably. The DB Manager’s “Import Vector Layer” tool. Contrary to its highly misleading title it can...
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Ireland QGIS User Group Blog: Create great looking topographic maps in QGIS
In this tutorial I will show you how to create a Hillshaded topographic map in QGIS. We will be using Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) data, a near global Digital Elevation Model (DEM) collected...
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Markus Neteler: GRASS GIS 6.4.5RC1 released
After months of development a first release candidate of GRASS GIS 6.4.5 is now available. This is a stability release of the GRASS GIS 6 line.Source code...
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nyalldawson.net: Introducing QGIS live layer effects!
I’m pleased to announce that the crowdfunded work on layer effects for QGIS is now complete and available in the current development snapshots! Let’s dive in and explore how these effects work, and...
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Lutra Consulting: Crayfish 2.0: What's New!
After listening to user feedback we decided to do some major work on Crayfish. The changes include code refactoring, changes to the user interface, support for an additional file format, adding a...
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Nathans QGIS and GIS blog: A interactive command bar for QGIS
Something that has been on my mind for a long time is a interactive command interface for QGIS. Something that you can easily open, run simple commands, and is interactive to ask for arguments when...
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Markus Neteler: Fun with docker and GRASS GIS software
Sometimes, we developers get reports via mailing list that this & that would not work on whatever operating system. Now what? Should we be so kind and install the operating system in question in...
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Kartoza: How to run a Linux GUI application on OSX using Docker
Ok so here is the scenario:You just got a nice new MacBook 15″ Retina computer thinking it would work as nicely for Linux as your 13″ MacBook did and then you discover that the hybrid Intel/Nvidia card...
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anitagraser.com: Routing in polygon layers? Yes we can!
A few weeks ago, the city of Vienna released a great dataset: the so-called “Flächen-Mehrzweckkarte” (FMZK) is a polygon vector layer with an amazing level of detail which contains roads, buildings,...
View Articlenyalldawson.net: Review: Building Mapping Applications with QGIS
It seems like over the last year the amount of literature published regarding QGIS has really exploded. In the past few months alone there’s been at least three titles I can think of (Building Mapping...
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Nathans QGIS and GIS blog: PSA: Please use new style Qt signals and slots not...
Don’t do this: self.connect(self.widget, SIGNAL("valueChanged(int)"), self.valuechanged) It’s the old way, the crappy way. It’s prone to error and typing mistakes. And who really wants to be typing...
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