DARREN COPE

Once again, I’m late with my summary of the past year. Shocking, I know ;) Better late than never though, so deal with it! I’m not even sure how best to summarize 2011; once again it was a year of ups and downs, both in life in general, and in my cycling. However, like 2010, [...]

Hi Everyone! Just a quick reminder that the Statistics Canada Census Geography data should be released today for free! I don’t see it there yet, but I’ll keep checking! EDIT (9:05am): It looks like the data is now available!

How many times have you opened a shapefile in QGIS, and found yourself wanting to be able to modify its schema? If you’re like me, it happens on a very regular basis! One of my major frustrations with QGIS is that I couldn’t do this without creating another copy of the shapefile. This seemed rather [...]

I just downloaded the latest QGIS development build (1.9.90-9) and immediately noticed a significant change to the look of the layer legend pane. It now looks like this: You’ll see that it is split into two panes, with one called “Layers” and one called “Layer order.”  Each now has a checkbox to “Control rendering order” [...]

Have you ever wanted to automate the creation of a mapbook? Well, QGIS has a great plugin called EasyPrint that does just that! It makes the process simple and quick once you know how it works.  I’ll try to explain exactly that below! Installation: EasyPrint is written by Stefan Ziegler, who we all owe a [...]