Here I post my thoughts, QGIS tips and tricks, updates on my QGIS-related work, etc.
08.04.2013 07:57 · Notes · books
It was a great pleasure to read this book by Dzvinka Matiyash. I recommend it, it’s a wonderful work, written emotionally and, in my opinion, poetically. Even if you don’t like Ukrainian, you should try to read it anyway.
In the meantime, I’ll start reading “Stories of Roses, Rain and Salt”.
I have finished translating the QGIS 1.8.0 User Guide into Russian. Online and PDF versions should be available tomorrow via links on the official website.
Another of my modest contributions to QGIS is now in the master. I added 4 new tools to customise raster rendering: brightness and contrast controls (raster pipes, once you understand how they work, are cool and flexible thing). In addition to changing the raster rendering on the fly, users can also save the modified image for future use.
05.03.2013 08:01 · Notes · books
I read “Notes of a Ukrainian Madman” by Lina Kostenko. Excellent, I didn’t even expect to like it. Now I’m thinking what to read next: “A Requiem for November” by Dzvinka Matiyash or “Raven” by Vasyl Shkliar. But I don’t have either book yet, and it’s unlikely that I could buy them here.
07.01.2013 13:45 · Notes · books
Yesterday I finished “The Idiot” by Dostoyevsky. Impressions are twofold, it was a bit easier to read than “Crime and Punishment”, but in general I did not like it. I haven’t decided what to read next, and I won’t have much time for books in the near future.
31.12.2012 16:35 · Notes · year-in-review
Traditionally, at the end of the year, I try to summarise the most important and interesting events.
This year I have had to work hard. In addition to working on various projects, I have been quite active in QGIS, especially at the beginning of the year. In total, more than 50 bugs in QGIS were fixed, and 4 new plugins were released. It looks like next year will be even more intense.
The year was rich in releases: GDAL 1.9.0 (and related shapefile encoding issues), Proj 4.8, QGIS 1.7.4 and 1.8.0, PostGIS 2.0 (topology and raster), OTB 3.12 (full support for Πλειάδες). 181317 OrbView-3 scenes have been released under the Public Domain licence. Also, this year SEXTANTE for QGIS was announced — a powerful geoprocessing platform that soon became part of QGIS.
QGIS is now 10 years old.
I released several new QGIS plugins, including Geotag and import photos, and participated in GSoC as a mentor. For a short time I became a SEXTANTE core developer (then it was integrated into QGIS and I lost that title).
Moved this blog to my “own” server.
Happy New Year!
15.12.2012 14:11 · GIS · qgis, processing, howto
TauDEM (Terrain Analysis Using Digital Elevation Models) is a set of Digital Elevation Model (DEM) tools for extracting and analysing hydrological information from the topography represented by a DEM. It was developed at Utah State University (USU) for hydrological analysis of digital elevation models and watershed delineation.
TauDEM has recently been integrated into QGIS as a SEXTANTE provider. This makes it possible to run TauDEM tools directly from QGIS, easily perform complex analysis workflows, and view the generated results.
In this post, I will show how to perform some hydrological analysis tasks in QGIS using TauDEM, namely how to delineate watersheds and extract stream networks.
Read more ››About a week ago, Alessandro Furieri announced the release of SpatiaLite 4.0.0 — a spatial extension to SQLite. There are not just a lot of changes, there are VERY many of them. And some of them may cause compatibility problems, so all users should read the migration guide.
Among the most interesting features:
And yesterday, the SpatiaLite data provider in QGIS was updated. Compatibility with databases created in previous versions of SpatiaLite is maintained. However, you will need to convert your databases to the SpatiaLite 4.0.0 format (you can use spatialite_convert from spatialite-tools) to take full advantage of the new features.
02.12.2012 15:54 · Notes · books
Finished “Anna Karenina”. The next book will probably be Dostoyevsky’s “The Idiot”.
30.11.2012 21:44 · Site · blog
With the Nth attempt, I set up the web-server and transferred the site to it.
I’m not much of a sysadmin, so not everything has been done the way I wanted, and not everything I planned is there and working. I will try to add what is missing over time. So the site may be down for short periods of time..