Modeling Part 2

Not being content with my last model…. . I dove back in because I really need to name the points something because the forestry guys almost always use GARMIN GPS equipment. After sitting on this for a week the question became “How do I name...

Modeling in QGIS

I should model more….but I don’t. You’re welcome. Anyway – the last few weeks I’ve been boring you with tales of topology and now I’m going to bore you with tales of building a model. One of my longest running jobs has been in...

QGIS Processing: History

If you’re anything like me (hopefully you aren’t) you’ll do something and immediately wished you hadn’t closed the processing window. Clip, simplify, select by location…… So in this case I had a call about contouring a Digital...

The Second Day of XYMas….GDAL

So going back to the college kids and the “OMG I gotta learn python”. It actually it helps if you do learn python. It will help your career and it’s always nice to know how to program in something…. BUT I will submit on this the second day of...

Editing your data in QGIS

It has been a while. I’ve had a running project in PostGIS now that is 4 years old. It ends this month. It spent 3 years as a shapefile and one year as a File Based Geodatabase before I decided to “learn hos this postgis thing works”.  Having a...

Running 2 versions of QGIS on Ubuntu Linux

It’s a story that’s way longer than anyone will want to read. I’ve a client that I’m doing a database conversion project. We’ve moving out of a commercial vendor and to Postgis/PostgreSQL/QGIS. Weird thing is I’m running linux on...