Posted on December 26, 2022 (Updated on July 21, 2025)
Drag and drop layers / layer groups between instances of QGIS
Hiking & ActivitiesStop Rebuilding Your QGIS Projects: Drag and Drop Like a Pro QGIS, that powerhouse open-source GIS we all know and love, is packed with features. But let’s be honest, some gems get overlooked. One of my personal favorites? The simple, yet incredibly powerful, ability to drag and drop layers (and even entire layer groups!) between
Posted on December 26, 2022 (Updated on July 21, 2025)
Overlaid rasters has white edges in ArcMap
Hiking & ActivitiesBanishing White Edges: Making Your Overlaid Rasters Play Nice in ArcMap Ever layered rasters in ArcMap and ended up with those annoying white lines where they meet? Yeah, me too. It’s like a digital paper cut on your map! Those stark white borders can really mess with the visual appeal and, more importantly, the accuracy
Posted on December 26, 2022 (Updated on July 21, 2025)
Creating minumum polygon coverage from set of lines in ArcGIS Desktop?
Hiking & ActivitiesTurning Lines into Shapes: Creating Polygons from Lines in ArcGIS Desktop Ever needed to turn a bunch of lines on a map into actual shapes? It’s a pretty common task in the GIS world. Whether you’re mapping out property lines to create parcels, tracing shorelines to define lakes, or even zoning areas based on roads,
Posted on December 26, 2022 (Updated on July 21, 2025)
Custom marker colours in leaflet based on attribute
Hiking & ActivitiesLevel Up Your Leaflet Maps: Custom Marker Colors Based on Data Leaflet? It’s the go-to JavaScript library when you want to whip up interactive maps that don’t just sit there, but actually do something. And while Leaflet’s great out of the box, the real magic happens when you start bending it to your will. One
Posted on December 26, 2022 (Updated on July 21, 2025)
Move overlapping pie charts in QGIS
Hiking & ActivitiesTaming Overlapping Pie Charts in QGIS: A Human’s Guide to Making Maps Make Sense Pie charts in QGIS? Love ’em. They’re fantastic for showing how different pieces make up a whole when you’re dealing with geographic data. But let’s be honest, things can quickly turn into a visual dog’s breakfast when those pies start piling
Posted on December 26, 2022 (Updated on July 21, 2025)
Getting the difference between a multipart feature and a single feature using Itopologicaloperator
Hiking & ActivitiesDecoding GIS Features: Single or Multiple? And How to Tell the Difference Ever wondered how GIS software handles those map features we see every day? It turns out, things can get pretty interesting under the hood, especially when it comes to how those features are structured. We’re talking about the difference between singlepart and multipart