ESRI… Explain Georeferencing To Me as If I Were a Five-Year-Old 31 Mar 2017 Blog post copied from Adrian Welsh on GeoNet 30/11/2016 - Too good not to share!! Explain Georeferencing To Me as If I Were a Five-Year-Old I really liked how…
3D GIS… Vertical transformations in GIS 29 Nov 201624 Nov 2016 You know those moments where you are sat in a pub, the office or at a friends house and you say something, then suddenly wonder why you haven't thought of…
GIS Tips… QGIS – What do you do when you move your .qgs file? 3 Nov 2016 So, the situation occurred yesterday where I was giving a workshop and sent out a load of QGIS styles, layer definition files and also a project file (.qgs)....Smugly, I told…
GeoNews… Add OSTN15 to QGIS 2.16 26 Sep 2016 As you may be aware, the United Kingdom has a new transformation model that is OSTN15.....But why? What does it mean to the geospatial community? Without being too nerdy, tectonic…
GIS Tips… QGIS CSV & Delimited text Issues 15 Aug 2016 Originally posted on xyHt Magazine 10th August 2016 Last month I was at the Maptime in Southampton (UK), helping QGIS new users how to join tables and map EU referendum…
3D GIS… Using 3D Web Mapping to Model Offshore Archaeology 27 Jul 2016 Ever since I started working in the renewables industry on offshore wind farms over 8yrs ago and had to analyse shipwrecks, I thought about how much more interactive and informative…
Cartography… How to Grayscale ArcGIS Pro Vector Symbology 20 Jun 2016 Most of the time, ESRI software is great, it does [mostly] what you ask it and as long as you aren't doing anything too crazy it behaves. We all know…
3D GIS… Do your work right and you can be smart too 7 Jun 2016 Originally published in xyHt Ever since I saw the word phrase "smart city", I have cringed. Not because of the term but what it alludes to. To me it says…
ESRI… GIS Tips – Quickly Scroll Through ArcMap Icons 29 Mar 2016 It's been a while since I posted a "GIS Tip" but this is a goody, especially if you spend HOURS scrolling through the ArcMap icons looking for that symbol which…
ESRI… QGIS 2.14 v ArcGIS 10.4 22 Mar 2016 Posted in xyht magazine 21st March 2016 This post almost didn't happen, for over 7yrs I've been comparing GIS software in the hope that someone would be reading and take…
3D GIS… QGIS 2.5D Functionality 19 Feb 2016 I originally posted this on xyHt on 16th Feb 2016 I had, when I went into the office today, to do an amazing blog about the QGIS 2.5D functionality…
3D GIS… 3D GIS is a thing and let's embrace it 3 Dec 2015 “The world we live in is a three dimensional world, so why do we map it and analyse it in just two dimensions?” - Dragons8mycat 2013 In the last…
GIS Tips… Further Adventures with 3D GIS 20 Nov 2015 Originally Posted in xyHt on 19th November, the original article can be read here Last year I posted about this awesome plugin called "QGIS2Threejs" [here] and how it was possible…
Cartophilia… Recreating the Ordnance Survey Explorer Maps with Open Data 9 Oct 2015 Originally posted on xyHt.com The holy grail for many map users is the Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 scale "Explorer" map. Not only are they easy to read due to the fantastic…
Cartography… Lacking geoinspiration? Might be worth looking here…. 6 Oct 2015 Every now and then we all lack a little inspiration, whether it is a new client looking for that special something or a personal goal to get your work noticed,…
