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For those interested in dutch OpenData: our national OpenData service PDOK has a Solr based geocoding service available. Since this week it is possible to search for ‘parcel’ codes to find cadastral parcels, but also to search on so called ‘hectometer-paaltjes': the little green number signs you see when you drive the dutch highways. So … Continue reading Locatieserver: about parcels and roadnumbers

Via twitter: AmsterdamTimeMachine.nl. Jan Hartman’s and WebMappers hard work of georeferencing a set of Old Amsterdam maps: http://amsterdamtimemachine.nl. 6 XYZ-Map services with maps old as 1625 to have a look into history, off course also to be loaded in QGIS Wanna see ‘the red light district’ in 1625? Or see Dutch 17th century glory on … Continue reading AmsterdamTimeMachine

What is a Locator (plugin) Some months ago, Nyall Dawson silently dropped a nice widget into the lower left corner of your QGIS screen: People familiar with QtCreator (the Qt-development environment) should recognize it as a QtCreator Locator look-a-like: a way to (very) quickly search in your project for words, classes, bookmarks, help topics, files … Continue reading Coding a QgsLocator (Plugin)

This post is to announce the availability of a new version of the PdokServicePlugin. Unless a heavy user of Dutch Public Datasources (WMS, WFS, WCS), this is probably mostly interesting for Dutchies. But if you want to know how many kilometers somebody is living from the nearest Fire Department Station:

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Imagine you have a list of different features at locations and you want to display those on a map like this: The QGIS diagrams expect a column for each pie or bar, but our features are all listed in one column: And our geometry is stored in a good old shapefile: So, we can use … Continue reading Diagrams for features

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A short post in Dutch, to let us dutchies know of a new version of the ‘PDOK services plugin’ which eases the use of our national OWS services. If you want you can install it, and for example view the different soli types of The Netherlands: Another nice service is the 25cm Aerial Map of … Continue reading New version of dutch PDOK services plugin

How to visualize point data with Z values? Let’s say: we have data about noise pollution in multi-storey buildings. The point data (apartments) looks like this: The attribute table looks like this: We see X and Y coordinates, and a Z (height) value. The DB column gives the actual noise data, which we want to … Continue reading Visualizing 3D data with expressions

The Dutch Basisregistratie Grootschalige Topografie (BGT) is exchanged via gml. Unfortunately the used gml application schema is quite involved and leads to incomplete imports in QGIS. The BGT-import plugin is now available so that the gml files can be imported correctly. To illustrate the point two screen shots (one wrong, and one right):

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Yesterday I ran the half marathon of Zwolle wearing a hat with the previous QGIS logo. My time was not so special (2:08:47) but the medal I earned was. It shows a simple map of the city of Zwolle. You can see some buildings but which ones? I decided to georerence the medal and add … Continue reading Gereference a medal

Sometimes I prefer to publish my map in gray instead of black. But all newly added QGIS composer items are set to black by default. For changing the colors more easily and rapidly I created the “Turn Gray” plugin. By default it changes all foreground colors (labels and outlines) to gray. But you are free … Continue reading Gray is the new Black

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Last week not only QGIS 2.14.0 Essen was released but also a great book “QGIS Map Design” based on this new version of QGIS. A release of QGIS is special but this release concerns an announced LTR release.  QGIS 2.8.7 is the current LTR version in which al bugs found between 2.8 and 2.14.0 have been … Continue reading New release of QGIS and book!