I was recently asked “what is the length of the coastline of each municipality of Denmark?” For anyone acquainted with GIS, this is known as the ‘coastline paradox’; depending at which scale you look at the&hellip
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Havfriluftlisv – 1 year of data!
It has been a year now that we’ve opened our ‘havfriluftsliv’ platform – it invited organised people who do water-based activities (sailing, fishing, snorkelling, ..) to add points, lines, and GPX-files where they carry out&hellip
QGIS 2.8, or let’s go back to QGIS 2.6
Since I’m teaching a few lectures this semester about crowdsourcing, GPS tracking and so on, I’m spending more time on QGIS than when I was reviewing motivation in citizen science projects. I had to install&hellip
QGIS 2.6 Brighton
I’ve recently updated QGIS to the latest version – new versions are going faster and faster these days, or maybe I’m not using it as often as I used to. Between literature reviews and GoogleMaps&hellip
QGIS 2.0!
I just discovered QGIS released a new version.. and it’s a 2.0. I can’t wait to try it and check the new features!
QGIS 2.0 – first exploration
I finally got some map to make with QGIS, and so eventually had a proper look at the new version. The print composer has really changed, and so far it looks like it’s mainly improvements.&hellip
Improving your legend with QGIS
It is very easy to make a nice legend with QGIS…but it’s not that obvious. By default, the legend comes up in a box, which size cannot be changed, on one column, and each item&hellip
Multiple Frames in QGIS – Trick1
Since QGIS has the possibility to make different frames, cartography has only been getting better! I often have to make map with different frames (usually because there are different scales), and I found that QGIS&hellip
QGIS and its modules
After having been trained on ArcGIS, MapInfo and GeoConcept it took me a while to understand the full power of QGIS. Partially because at the time I discovered it, QGIS was more or less used&hellip
Making a pie chart map and its legend, QGIS 1.8
Collecting data was a long process and when I realised I had collected enough for my research, I thought long wasted days were gone… Not that collecting data was wasting my time, but that it&hellip