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 Carto Group. I niavely thought that nothing would change and I could do all my normal day to day blogs, tweets and awesome screenshots....how wrong … Continue reading When normals aren’t normal
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Give #LiDAR files a coordinate system with no GIS
I am not perfect, my wife will tell you that in abundance and yesterday I realised just how rubbish I am....I was sent a LiDAR capture of some woods and no matter what I did, it wouldn't render in the right place. I knew the cloud was captured in EPSG 27700 (British National Grid) using … Continue reading Give #LiDAR files a coordinate system with no GIS
Creating a Cesium virtual globe with v1.36
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 "3D Tile" for the last 3yrs, I've waited patiently, waiting for the moment I could share with the world how fantastic this new technology is. … Continue reading Creating a Cesium virtual globe with v1.36
The Problem with 3D GIS
3D GIS is game changing, it can change the way you view your analysis, it can provide insights which you may have overlooked….but there is a little problem which I may had not shared in my deluge of blogs about how great 3D GIS is….. ...Sometimes it can be hard work. What I mean by … Continue reading The Problem with 3D GIS
QGIS 2.5D AGAIN….But on a web map!
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 QGIS2Web plugin. Before I run away with myself and start talking 2.5D and cool effects, I think it's best I clarify a few things.
Further Adventures with 3D GIS
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 to quickly render 3D visualisations for free using the open source GIS, QGIS. At the time I fudged some wind turbines as it was impossible … Continue reading Further Adventures with 3D GIS
GIS Tips – Think about how you are going to present it
A map's a map right? You get the data and you make everyone happy with a nice map....not always. Chatting the other day to a colleague and they don't like using 3D, the justification was that there isn't any reason to, which (as you've already guessed) got me a little wound up. So, I thought … Continue reading GIS Tips – Think about how you are going to present it
ArcGIS 3D Web Maps – CityEngine Web Scenes
How often have you put a visualisation together and had to consider data provision as your first priority or created a work of art which then needs to be bundled onto a harddrive or disk to send to a client? I am relatively new to 3D visualisation and I've had to completely rethink a few … Continue reading ArcGIS 3D Web Maps – CityEngine Web Scenes
