Posts By: Rudi Thiede

QGIS got another useful feature a few days ago, courtesy of Alexander Bruy. Here’s the commit. What this lets you do is to find out what projection your rasters are in. It then exports this to a .WLD file. It also allows you to create .PRJ files. If you have GDAL Tools installed (and activated),… Read more »

Courtesy of Martin Dobias, QGIS master/trunk now sports a snazzy new data browser! You’ll find it under View > Panels > Browser. It does what you’d expect: allows you to navigate around on your hard drive and add any data you find. It even shows (by way of an icon, adjacent to the file name)… Read more »

So, as seen in my previous post on customizing the QGIS UI, it’s now possible to completely customize the QGIS interface, adding or removing items as you choose. You can save some layouts, and apply them as needed. It all comes built into QGIS, presented in a handy visual interface. This lets you check and… Read more »

There’s a new development in QGIS Master: a customization tool which lets you (de)activate almost any element in the QGIS user interface. This can get very useful if you have a lot of plug-ins installed that you never use and that are filling your screen. Or maybe you just have a vendetta against clutter. Either… Read more »

If you’re using QGIS and PostGIS, this article is for you. If not, it could still show you a useful approach, so don’t close the tab yet! Consider this scenario: you have a large vector dataset which you have combined from several mapsheets (for example, the standard 1:50 000 topo sheets issued by the Surveyor-General)…. Read more »

Let’s say you’ve got a lot of raster files you want to host on your map server, or even just one large backdrop. I needed to do the latter, but either way, you’re faced with the same problem: how can I reduce file size and access time? Whatever else I do – such as building… Read more »