Showing the legend in GeoPandas when color is given by value
Hiking & ActivitiesDecoding GeoPandas Legends: Making Sense of Color-Coded Maps GeoPandas is fantastic. Seriously, it’s a game-changer for anyone working with geospatial data in Python. It makes whipping up maps surprisingly easy. One of the coolest things you can do is create choropleth maps – those visually appealing maps where regions are shaded different colors based on
How can I add a graticule similar to the DeLorme Atlas to a map in QGIS?
Hiking & ActivitiesLevel Up Your QGIS Maps: Creating a Killer Graticule Like the DeLorme Atlas Remember those DeLorme Atlas and Gazetteer books? I used to spend hours poring over them, planning road trips and dreaming of adventures. What always stood out was their amazing detail, especially that handy graticule – the grid of latitude and longitude lines
How to move a feature along a certain angle and distance?
Hiking & ActivitiesMoving Features with Precision: A (Human’s) Guide to Angle and Distance Transformations Ever needed to nudge something “just so,” whether it’s a graphic element, a robotic arm, or even a virtual object in a game? Then you’ve probably bumped into the challenge of moving a feature by a specific distance along a precise angle. It
Convert shape into a shapefile in QGIS
Hiking & ActivitiesWrangling Shapes into Shapefiles with QGIS: A Friendly Guide So, you’ve got some spatial data, and you need to get it into a Shapefile? No sweat! QGIS, that amazing free and open-source GIS software, has you covered. Think of Shapefiles as the “universal language” of the GIS world – almost every program can read them.
Looking for a more effcient process for retrieving information
Hiking & ActivitiesStop Drowning in Data: How to Find What You Really Need, Faster Let’s face it: we’re all swimming in information these days. Whether you’re knee-deep in research, hustling at work, or just trying to figure out what’s going on in the world, being able to find the right info, fast, is a superpower. That’s where
Seeking tool in QGIS similar to ArcGIS Combine?
Hiking & ActivitiesLooking for the ArcGIS “Combine” Tool in QGIS? Let’s Figure This Out! So, you’re making the jump from ArcGIS to QGIS, or maybe you’re just trying to level up your QGIS game? One thing that often trips people up is finding the QGIS equivalent of certain ArcGIS tools. A big one I hear about is