#GISChat… GIS and Geospatial Events in 2020 17 Dec 201917 Dec 2019 I got asked a couple of weeks ago which events I'd be attending next year (2020) and it set off my rage...every year I look to booking some great events…
#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…
#GISChat… Twas the night before GIS Day 13 Nov 2018 Todd Barr wrote an excellent GIS Day tale but I felt it was a slight bit unkind, so came up with my own version, I hope you enjoy:…
3D GIS… When normals aren’t normal 20 Jun 20183 Dec 2019 Hey, it's been a while since my last post and I'll take a second to tell you why....I got a new job as CTO of a little company called The…
GIS Tips… Using OpenStreetMap basemaps with QGIS 3.0 27 Feb 201827 Feb 2018 QGIS 3 is a new wave of open source GIS, not only is it extremely quick and efficient, allowing you to use almost every type of geospatial data you can…
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…
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… 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… 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…
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…
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,…
GIS Tips… QGIS Shortcuts to optimise efficiency 29 Jun 2015 You probably already know that QGIS has shortcuts, afterall we all use CTRL+C & CTRL+V but did you know that you can simply exit QGIS by using CTRL+Q?.... In the…
