[ OpenDRI ] Open Data for Resilience Initiative

OpenDRI brings the philosophies and practices of the global open data movement to the challenges of reducing vulnerability and building resilience to natural hazards and the impacts of climate change across the globe

Geofabrik TOOLS

Geofabrik Tools

• Map
• Map Compare
• OSM Inspector
• Tile Calculator

fl-OSM THEMATIC MAPS

fl-OSM THEMATIC MAPS

• POI Maps
• Bike map
• Power Grid
• Public Transport
• Map for water sports

For the POI Map (click here); for the other services use the “Thememaps” menu…

[ GERMANY ] – GEOportal.NRW – Geschäftsstelle des IMA GDI in Nordrhein-Westfalen

Das GEOportal.NRW ist die zentrale Vermittlungsstelle zwischen Nutzern und Anbietern von Geodaten in NRW. Weiterhin dient es als Informationsplattform hinsichtlich des aktuellen Stands der INSPIRE-Umsetzung und des Aufbaus der Geodateninfrastruktur in NRW (GDI-NW).

Als Kernelement der Geodateninfrastruktur NRW ermöglicht das GEOportal.NRW den Bürgerinnen und Bürgern, der Politik, der Wirtschaft sowie der Verwaltung die einfache Recherche und Visualisierung von Geobasis- und Geofachdaten der Landesverwaltung. Weiteren Anbietern von Geodaten (geodatenhaltende Stellen) steht es frei, auch Ihre Daten über das Portal in die (inter)nationale Geodateninfrastruktur einzubinden.

Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring database

“Throughout the Arctic there is substantial concern about climate change and the effects upon the arctic ecosystem, which is the basis for most of the people and societies in the Arctic. The Arctic Council has initiated multiple initiatives to monitor and investigate the environmental effects in the Arctic. Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring (GEM) is one of the contributions from the Kingdom of Denmark, including Greenland. GEM consist of five sub-programmes and a number of strategic cross cutting initiatives that also include collaborations with other complimentary operational monitoring and research activities”.

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Papalomalia – The First Web 3D Geological Modelling Platform

Papalomalia – The First Web 3D Geological Modelling Platform

With mapalomalia you can draw geological maps, create cross sections and geological models easily.

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QGIS – Using Sentinel-2 for crop monitoring

QGIS – Using Sentinel-2 for crop monitoring

“Sentinel-2 is the optical satellite of the Copernicus programme. It can be compared to Landsat, although it has a better resolution, of 10 to 20 meters. We’ll be using it for crop monitoring with simple vegetation indices”.

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QGIS 2.16 tutorial: georeferencing images

QGIS 2.16 tutorial: georeferencing images

“Since our last tutorial regarding georeferencing images in QGIS is 4 years old, let us have a second look at this task in the current times of QGIS 2.16. For this tutorial we will use a Soviet map of Crewe in England to see changes in city structure with a snapshot from 1957. We will use simple and quite easy affine transformations for this purpose”.

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[ USA ] – SAN FRANCISCO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH – GIS DATA

[ USA ] – SAN FRANCISCO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH – GIS DATA

• Community/
• CommunityResiliencyIndicators/
• Demographics/
• Economy/
• Education/
• Environment/
• Flooding/
• Housing/
• PublicRealm/
• Transportation/

 

NORTH ROAD BLOG

NORTH ROAD BLOG

Point cluster renderer crowdfunding – successful!

Posted on September 6, 2016 Nyall DawsonLeave a comment

Great news! Thanks in part to some generous last minute pledges, our QGIS Point Cluster Renderer campaign has successfully reached its target. This means that QGIS 3.0 will now include a full feature and flexible cluster renderer. In the meantime, we’d like to extend our warmest thanks to the following generous contributors, whose pledges have […]

Point cluster renderer crowdfunding – the final countdown!

Posted on August 29, 2016August 29, 2016 Nyall DawsonLeave a comment

At North Road we are currently running a crowdfunding campaign to sponsor work on a new “Point Cluster Renderer” for QGIS. This is a really exciting new feature which would help make possible some neat styling effects which just aren’t possible in QGIS at the moment. The campaign is now in its final hours and we’ve […]

Point cluster renderer crowdfund launched!

Posted on July 26, 2016July 26, 2016 Nyall DawsonLeave a comment

We’ve just launched a new crowd funding campaign to implement a live point cluster renderer within QGIS. Full details are available on the campaign page. This is a really exciting new feature which would help make possible some neat styling effects which just aren’t possible in QGIS at the moment. To make it possible we […]

The road to QGIS 3.0 – part 1

Posted on July 25, 2016July 25, 2016 Nyall Dawson1 Comment

As we discussed in QGIS 3 is under way, the QGIS project is working toward the next major version of the application and these developments have major impact on any custom scripts or plugins you’ve developed for QGIS. We’re now just over a week into this work, and already there’s been tons of API breaking changes […]

QGIS 3 is underway – what does it mean for your plugins and scripts?

Posted on July 11, 2016July 25, 2016 Nyall Dawson1 Comment

With the imminent release of QGIS 2.16, the development attention has now shifted to the next scheduled release – QGIS 3.0! If you haven’t been following the discussion surrounding this I’m going to try and summarise what exactly 3.0 means and how it will impact any scripts or plugins you’ve developed for QGIS. QGIS 3.0 […]

Exploring variables in QGIS pt 3: layer level variables

Posted on December 12, 2015May 20, 2016 Nyall Dawson1 Comment

In part 3 of my exploration of variables in QGIS 2.12, I’m going to dig into how variables are scoped in QGIS and what layer level variables are available (you can read parts 1 and 2 for a general introduction to variables). Some background Before we get to the good stuff, a bit of background […]

Exploring variables in QGIS pt 2: project management

Posted on December 3, 2015May 20, 2016 Nyall Dawson2 Comments

Following on from part 1 in which I introduced how variables can be used in map composers, I’d like to now explore how using variables can make it easier to manage your QGIS projects. As a quick refresher, variables are a new feature in QGIS 2.12 which allow you to create preset values for use anywhere […]

Exploring variables in QGIS 2.12, part 1

Posted on December 2, 2015May 20, 2016 Nyall Dawson8 Comments

It’s been quite some time since I last had a chance to blog and a lot has happened since then. Not least of which is that QGIS 2.12 has now been released with a ton of new features that I’ve neglected to write about! To try and get things moving along here again I’m planning on writing a […]

Recent labelling improvements in QGIS master

Posted on July 20, 2015May 20, 2016 Nyall Dawson5 Comments

If you’re not like me and don’t keep a constant eye over at QGIS development change log (be careful – it’s addictive!), then you’re probably not aware of a bunch of labelling improvements which recently landed in QGIS master version. I’ve been working recently on a large project which involves a lot (>300) of atlas […]

Want to sponsor some QGIS features? Here’s some ideas…

Posted on July 9, 2015May 20, 2016 Nyall Dawson1 Comment

I’ve been working on QGIS for a number of years now and, contrary to what I thought when I started, my wishlist seems to grow longer with every feature I add to QGIS! Unfortunately, almost all of my QGIS development work is done on a volunteer basis and it’s sometimes hard to justify the time […]

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