How to calculate the number of points with differing characteristic in a polygon in ArcMap?
Hiking & ActivitiesUnlocking Insights: Counting Unique Point Types Within Polygons in ArcMap Ever found yourself needing to understand the variety of things happening within a specific area on a map? I mean, it’s one thing to know how many total somethings are inside a boundary, but it’s another to figure out how many different kinds of somethings
Adding M values to a shapefile so the distance along the line is displayed as a derived attribute in QGIS
Hiking & ActivitiesAdding Distance to Your Lines in QGIS: A Human’s Guide to M Values Okay, GIS folks, let’s talk about lines. We all love a good line on a map, right? But what if you want to know the distance along that line, and have that distance pop up as a handy attribute in QGIS? That’s
Creating vector file using QGIS
Hiking & ActivitiesCreating Vector Files Using QGIS: A Down-to-Earth Guide So, you’re diving into the world of GIS and need to whip up some vector files? QGIS, that awesome free and open-source software, has your back. It’s like the Swiss Army knife for maps and spatial data, and trust me, creating vector files is one of its
‘NoneType’ object has no attribute
Hiking & ActivitiesUntangling the “‘NoneType’ object has no attribute” Mystery in Python Python’s great, isn’t it? Clean, powerful, and with libraries for days. But even the best of us get tripped up sometimes. That’s where the “‘NoneType’ object has no attribute” error comes in. It’s like that little gremlin that pops up just when you think you’ve
Importing raster files in GeoPackage
Hiking & ActivitiesGeoPackage and Rasters: Ditching the Data Chaos Let’s face it, wrangling geospatial data can feel like herding cats. Shapefiles, with their sidecar files, served us well for a while, but they’re starting to show their age. Enter GeoPackage (GPKG), a slick, modern way to store all your geospatial goodies—rasters included—in a single, tidy file. Think
How to display Google Maps as basemap in a Silverlight application?
Hiking & ActivitiesRemember Trying to Get Google Maps into Silverlight? What a Headache! Okay, let’s take a trip down memory lane. Remember Silverlight? For a while there, it was Microsoft’s big answer to Flash, and some of us actually tried building real applications with it. One thing many developers wanted to do was embed Google Maps. Sounds