Compiling QGIS Under Ubuntu 9.10

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A lot of people are scared off from compiling QGIS on Ubuntu thinking the process is too complicated. Actually its pretty easy and you can do it in just a few steps. This weekend I am updating my desktop PC from Ubuntu Jaunty 9.4 to Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 by way of a clean OS install,… Read more »

Getting up and running with PostGIS in a jiffy

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I’ve posted this before on my old blog so this is a repeat for those looking to get going with PostGIS in a hurry. This procedure should work on Ubuntu Jaunty or Ubuntu Karmic and possibly earlier versions. sudo apt-get install postgresql-8.3-postgis sudo su – postgres createuser -s -d -r -l -P -E timlinux createdb… Read more »

Some more sneak peeks into QGIS trunk

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We will be going into feature freeze for QGIS 1.4 soon. There has been so much work going on in QGIS for this release, I thought I would take a moment to show the world what you might expect rendering-wise from the upcoming release. Symbology-ng The symbology-ng merge has brought in many improvements to the… Read more »

Extracting bands from hdf4_eos to tif

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Here is a quick and dirty bash script I wrote to extract all bands from a modis image and save each to a tiff file. The saved bands are named after the sub layer in the original hdf4 file. The script actually generates a second script called batch.sh so you can peek in there to… Read more »

GeoDjango Tutorial

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A while ago I posted a story about a GeoDjango training course I have been creating. By popular demand here are the course notes I made. Hope they are useful and I will appreciate any suggestions folks can offer to improve them.

Symbology-ng and new labelling plugin in QGIS Trunk

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Last night Martin merged his symbology-ng branch into QGIS trunk. This also includes the new labelling engine (currently implemented as a plugin). If you are using the OSGEO4W nightly builds the updated builds should now contain this functionality. I started playing around a bit with labelling, converting some old projects to use the new labelling… Read more »

Report back on the QGIS hackfest in Vienna, November 2009

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So I’ve just arrived back in Zurich en route to Johannesburg after a thrilling and tiring week hackfesting in Vienna. I’m going to try to summarise some of the major activities and outcomes from the hackfest and will ask others to fill in what I forget in the comments.