No words for this one, just pictures! Above: What we are trying to achieve… Above: Our symbol layers Above: The roof colour is data defined A shadow Layer And a highlight layer One other hint – don’t forget to enable symbol levels!
Posts Categorized: QGIS
New forms related features coming in QGIS 2.0
View here on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnqRAOvuJEU
QGIS 2 Annotations
View here on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pDBuSbQ02o
Dynamically updating layers in QGIS with PostGIS views
View here on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOhbbEkl4Kg
FOSSGIS at the LVG – State of Vorarlberg, Austria (updated interview)
A few months back I published an article about the large scale deployment of QGIS and FOSSGIS at the state administration of Vorarlberg, Austria. Shortly after I published the article, they asked for the opportunity to update the article with more details. The article that follows below is that amended version. In 2011, the State… Read more »
InaSAFE wins Open Source ‘Rookie of the Year’ award
A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of doing an interview on behalf of the InaSAFE project as part of the selection process for the Black Duck Software ‘open source rookies of the year’ competition. A week later we heard that we had made it into the top 10! The award is based… Read more »
Holiday OpenStreetMap project for Swellendam
If you even visited my lovely home town of Swellendam in the Western Cape of South Africa on http://openstreetmap.org, you might have noticed that the building footprints for the town are almost non-existent. Building footprints provide a valuable way to understand impacts of flood and other natural hazards, as well as being a valuable source… Read more »
Visualising QGIS data with Blender
Anton Westholm just published this great article on using QGIS and blender to create 3D visualisations: http://kodex.tumblr.com/post/37038839550/visualising-qgis-data-with-blender
InaSAFE 1.0 Launched
I have been working a lot in Indonesia this year on the InaSAFE project. InaSAFE is a QGIS plugin (also available as a web extension for GeoNode) for assessment of scenarios following a natural disaster such as a flood, earthquake, volcano, tsunami etc. This month the InaSAFE team (which consists of developers from around the… Read more »
Quick setup of Ubuntu 12.04 to work with QGIS SEXTANTE
In the last few weeks we merged the work from the QGIS SEXTANTE project into the official QGIS repository’s master branch. This means basically that in QGIS 2.0 SEXTANTE will be a default plugin, available immediately on installation of QGIS. SEXTANTE uses a pluggable architecture, providing front ends to SAGA, GRASS, Orpheo Toolbox, MMQGIS and… Read more »