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 »

Here is a nice story sent to me by Andrew Inglis where they are training people to use QGIS to map AIDS: Mapping and Geographic Information System (GIS) have long been used in Rwanda for sectors such as agriculture and economic growth. The need for these innovative tools and skills, however, are just now being… Read more »

In my previous blog post l mentioned that l would share on how to download OSM data, load it into Postgres, connect database to QGIS and view OSM data in QGIS. I will further explain how l created the styles in my swatch board using QGIS new symbology….but lets first download the data OSM test dataset… Read more »

During the Lisbon hackfest (between all those meetings!) I worked on updating the raster providers to be able to generate stats themselves. The raster provider base class has a default (and historically inefficient as we all know) implementation for collecting stats by walking over every cell in the raster twice. This method remains, but the… Read more »

Hi My name is Petty, I worked as an Intern at Linfiniti after completing my honours degree in GIS last year. A few months ago l did a project with Linfiniti, so I’ll be sharing on the steps l took and a few cartography hints and tips which might come in handy if you’re interested… Read more »

Getting up and running with QtCreator and QGIS Firstly let me preface this article by saying that I am not a huge fan of IDEs – I’ve been using VIM for more than a decade and it’s a tough habit to break. That said, QtCreator has a lot going for it (including a special concession… Read more »

One of the things we recently added to qgis.org is a new, django based, QGIS community map. So far we have 60 users registered and growing. If I get a chance, I will import the old users from the community map I used to run on QGIS.org some years ago. Today I made a few… Read more »

Today we (the QGIS project) sent out the release announcement for QGIS 1.7. This release took much longer than we would have liked – it included many new features and we implemented many changes to our project infrastructure – all of which consumed time and slowed the release process. There was quite a bit of… 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 »