#GISChat… Making the Move to PostGIS 24 Oct 201923 Oct 2019 I’m going to be upfront and say that I’m a “fudger”, for the last decade (and more) I’ve dipped in and out of SQL, using Oracle, MySQL and of late…
GIS Tips… Virtualisation, the greatest tool you don’t [currently] use 20 Dec 201719 Dec 2017 Originally posted on xyHt: http://www.xyht.com/spatial-itgis/virtualisation-the-greatest-tool-you-dont-currently-use/ This post is dedicated to a good friend, Chris Johnson who, when we worked together a few years back, introduced me to this cool new word....VIRTUALISATION.…
3D GIS… Creating a Cesium virtual globe with v1.36 5 Sep 201723 Oct 2017 As blogs come, this has to be (for me) one of the longest. You see, I've been playing with Cesiumjs since its beginning and following the exciting beginnings of the…
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…
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…
3D GIS… Pokémon Go leads the AR Revolution 14 Jul 2016 Originally posted on xyHt Magazine 12/7/2016 Six months ago when I claimed that augmented reality was the future of GIS and geospatial services and it was met with a…
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…
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 AGAIN….But on a web map! 9 Mar 2016 No, you didn't misread that, you can now export your QGIS 2.5D maps straight to a web map thanks to the genius(es) Tom Chadwin & Luca Casagrande who developed the…
3D GIS… New Job, New Goals, same Dragons8mycat 17 Jan 2016 In case you aren't on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, YouTube, Instagram or Geonet (don't laugh I hear there are users) I decided that I needed a new challenge and to…
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…
New Tools QGIS Gets group layer definitions 20 Jan 2015 You may have guessed, I'm a little OCD. Things needs to be ordered and structured, yes, I wash my hands twice to make sure I get all the bateria. What…