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 »