Posted on December 27, 2022 (Updated on July 21, 2025)
How does QGIS reproject data onscreen when the project CRS is geographic?
Hiking & ActivitiesQGIS and Geographic Project CRS: How On-the-Fly Reprojection Works (The Human Touch) QGIS, that trusty open-source GIS, is a real workhorse when it comes to visualizing, analyzing, and wrangling spatial data. One of its coolest tricks? Handling data from all sorts of different Coordinate Reference Systems (CRSs) without batting an eye. This is especially handy
Posted on December 27, 2022 (Updated on July 21, 2025)
How to dissolve geodatabase map across two subdivision levels in Arcgis 10.2
Hiking & ActivitiesArcGIS Dissolve: Taming Complex Maps Across Subdivision Levels Like a Pro Okay, so you’re wrestling with a complex map in ArcGIS 10.2 and need to simplify things, right? Maybe you’re drowning in detail and just want to see the bigger picture. That’s where the Dissolve tool comes in – it’s like your map’s personal Marie
Posted on December 27, 2022 (Updated on July 21, 2025)
PyQGIS – Creating Pie Chart
Hiking & ActivitiesPyQGIS: Slicing Up Spatial Data with Pie Charts – A Visual Feast! Let’s face it, geospatial data can be a beast. It’s often complex, sprawling, and just plain overwhelming. That’s why we need clever ways to visualize it, to tease out the stories hidden within those layers and attributes. QGIS, being the awesome open-source GIS
Posted on December 27, 2022 (Updated on July 21, 2025)
Reading rasters in r using terra package
Hiking & ActivitiesWrangling Rasters in R with the terra Package: A Down-to-Earth Guide So, you’re diving into spatial analysis and need to handle raster data? Excellent! Rasters are basically the digital equivalent of gridded maps, where each cell holds a value representing something at that location. Think elevation, temperature, land cover – the possibilities are endless. And
Posted on December 27, 2022 (Updated on July 21, 2025)
Is there a better way to convert Raster to Point data? Don’t need one point for every cell
Hiking & ActivitiesDitch the Dots: Smarter Ways to Turn Rasters into Points So, you’ve got raster data and you need points. We’ve all been there. The first impulse? Slam that “Raster to Point” button and let it churn out a point for every single cell. Boom, done, right? Not so fast. You might end up with a
Posted on December 27, 2022 (Updated on July 21, 2025)
OpenLayers 3 measure example
Hiking & ActivitiesOpenLayers 3: Let’s Get Measuring! Building User-Friendly Map Tools OpenLayers 3? It’s a seriously cool open-source JavaScript library. Think of it as your toolkit for crafting interactive web maps. And one of the handiest tools you can build with it? Measurement tools! I mean, who hasn’t wanted to quickly measure distances or areas right on