3D GIS… Give #LiDAR files a coordinate system with no GIS 19 Mar 201819 Mar 2018 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…
ESRI… Calculating geometry outside ArcGIS Pro 22 Jan 2018 Posted in xyHt Jan 18th 2018: http://www.xyht.com/spatial-itgis/calculating-geometry-outside-arcgis-pro/ Let's be clear, this isn't a stab at the new all singing and dancing Esri software, this post is to help those who are…
GIS Tips… Making Heightmaps 21 Oct 201723 Oct 2017 Published in xyHt October 17 2017: http://www.xyht.com/spatial-itgis/making-heightmaps/ So there is no hiding it, I've been building a lot of 3d data recently, partly to sell, partly to fuel my adventures into…
3D GIS… The Problem with 3D GIS 1 Jun 2017 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…
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…
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… 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…