DARREN COPE

As you probably know, I love QGIS. It’s a fantastic tool that gets better on an almost daily basis. However, as with most open source projects, the documentation is often lacking. I found this to be the case when I wanted to use the “Trace Edit” tool. It’s a plugin, and installed using the Plugin [...]

If you’ve used GRASS at all, you’ve probably seen a message that looks like this: Depending on which version of GRASS you’re running, or your OS, the dialog box may look different (this one shown is from a GRASS session running inside QGIS; coincidentally my fvourite way to run GRASS….) but the message will be [...]

Here’s another quick post on the use of OGR for a simple yet often annoying task; renaming fields in a Shapefile. We’ve all had a Shapefile with column names that make no sense (10 character limit anyone?) or with fields that were manually created by some geoprocessing tool and given a random name upon output. [...]

Admit it. You love Google Maps. It’s so useful that you likely use it every day for something-or-other. And if you’re a Firefox user, here’s a tip that will make Google Maps even easier to use: Firefox Smart Keywords It’s pretty simple. Create a bookmark that looks like this: The two things to note are [...]

My puzzle this morning was to clip a very large shapefile. I tried all of my usual methods (QGIS, Kosmo, etc.) and was having no success (crashing, hanging, taking forever, etc.) so I thought I would try out my old standby, OGR. I had never used OGR to clip a file based on a polygon [...]