A friend asked me for a presentation about QGIS that provides a quick overview of the project and the software. I quickly knocked this presentation together from various other presentations. Obviously there is a lot more detail that one could give about the project but hopefully it gives a basic introduction well enough.
Today I wanted to batch convert a directory of .tiff images to .ecw (MrSid wavelet compressed). Our server has 8 cores so it would be nice to use them all right? Here is the quick & dirty way I do this kind of job in parallel. #!/bin/bash mkdir ecw for FILE in *.tif do BASENAME=$(basename… Read more »
This week I conducted a 3 Day GeoDjango course. We had 11 particpants consisting of SITA (South African State Information Technology Agency) employees and interns, and other non-SITA employees. The course was given free in order to promote skills development in Open Source GIS, and the lab facilities were donated by SITA, Perseus Park, Pretoria,… Read more »