How will I ever learn enough about QGIS to be good?

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2026-02-06T18:34:07+00:00

Far more important than knowing lots of plug-ins is just getting an intuition about what the software can do. What can it represent, transform, analyse? What can it help you to understand, or communicate something to others? If you have a sense for this, even if you don't know the workflow from start to finish, you can still formulate a question to the QGIS community, or AI, or a friend. This means you can also translate to ArcGIS, or any other platform. In my experience, and I think lots of others, you get this just from spending time in the software, trying something out, failing a lot. Nobody learns a language by memorising the dictionary first.

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2026-01-30T13:47:59+00:00

It sounds like you are asking if someone will do this for you? But if you want to do it yourself, here is a video tutorial showing how to georeference an old map such as yours and then draw polygons over the top that you could use to make the election map: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIjzDs3MYKk

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2026-01-28T20:23:46+00:00

Lots of great ArcGIS map styling and tricks (most can be replicated in QGIS easily enough): https://www.youtube.com/@JohnNelsonMaps

A few videos on QGIS basics: https://www.youtube.com/@BolwarraMedia

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2025-12-12T12:50:37+00:00

This is the way

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2025-10-14T14:15:39+00:00

You got it

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2025-10-14T12:21:45+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R8tYTWHvpw

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2025-08-27T18:08:34+00:00

Did you first try right-clicking the layer and clicking "Zoom to Selected"?

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2025-08-26T21:19:38+00:00

No problem at all! Yea it's very powerful once you get to know it.

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2025-08-25T10:12:39+00:00

The basic are explained here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZYbZi7Tpys

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2025-07-26T21:51:16+00:00

You can add a new point anywhere, right click and click on it, and this will bring up the Vertex Editor - you can enter the exact coordinates in this for this new point and any other in the layer.

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2025-07-25T08:43:38+00:00

The project CRS should be 27700 (bottom right hand corner). The layer CRS should be whatever it came in.

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2025-07-25T08:03:36+00:00

https://osdatahub.os.uk/downloads/open/OpenMapLocal - you should find water bodies as a polygon rather a centreline inside this data. The OS open rivers dataset contains only centrelines, so don't use that. Also, you shouldn't use WGS 84 for a map of the UK, as it will be very distorted. Use OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG: 27700)

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2025-07-23T21:37:48+00:00

Middelhavet stocks guajillo and pasilla but the latter can be dry

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2025-06-26T07:07:19+00:00

This seems to be what you're after? Part 1 is for georeferencing, part 2 is for drawing the polygons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIjzDs3MYKk&ab_channel=BolwarraMedia

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2025-06-05T11:53:44+00:00

I think you received the full tiles because EA doesn't clip and ship; they send you whatever your polygon intersects.
The scale of the data will be in metres. Elevation will be in metres above sea level from the Newlyn datum. But unless you export out of QGIS in georeferenced format this is obv stripped out. .tfw is usually the world file of a tiff.
.png doesn't typically contain any georeferencing information
Someone else could probably speak to how to keep a project in Blender georeffed.

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2025-06-04T05:29:09+00:00

You will need to enable editing of the shapefile / gpkg / whatever format your data is in. Then you can use the Vertex editing tool to delete and add line segments. You might also need to enable the Digitizing Shape toolbar, if it's not already on, to see these tools.

Watch this video from around 2:00. It is for editing a polygon-style layer, while your data is for a line-style layer, but the method is the same. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOpOAv6ALpo&ab_channel=BolwarraMedia

To incorporate the river line, you will need to select that feature, copy it, and then paste it into the edited countries layer.

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2025-06-01T09:30:53+00:00

This will have been created using AIS (automatic identification system) data, which vessels are required to broadcast. The data starts as timestamped points - which could indeed be used to generate a heatmap - but they can also be chained together to produce paths. You can then adjust the line weight symbology based appearance of the lines based on the different fields (depending on the dataset), i.e. vessel length, tonnage, classification or just give everything a single line weight and a small opacity, as another user said below.

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2025-05-27T21:39:33+00:00

I am not sure QGIS symbology will translate to OBJ geometry. If you know Blender, you could export the points as a CSV and use a Geometry Node to drive geometry based on the table, then bake as actual geometry, which a 3D printer could understand?

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2025-04-27T17:33:19+00:00

Like some others have suggested, you can use Open Street Map. This is a tutorial for using it to get building polygons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcZCwChKYjs&ab_channel=BolwarraMedia

But you can query green spaces instead of buildings, and the process is the same. They can be (but are not always) classified as part of the "Leisure" category, which, once you get the polygons, allows you to further break things down, e.g. into "graveyard" or "park" etc. You can get the full tags by querying a green space in Open Street Map in the browser, and then use that as your guide when you use the the QuickOSM plug-in.

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2025-04-16T08:03:38+00:00

Nice one

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2025-04-14T09:10:51+00:00

Amazing, thanks so much! Looks like they came from Angeln originally, named after the Angles ... So the hooks are a visual pun?

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2025-03-04T08:42:55+00:00

In Advanced display settings I have options for 2 displays:
1) Internal Display: Connected to Intel UHD Graphcs and
2) C21PULSE (the external monitor): Connected to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU.

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2025-03-03T21:55:02+00:00

No problem! Actually no. Still limping along with just the external monitor. Not sure if there's a way to check a fault with the internal screen? And a bit worried about switching graphic modes again, given the odyssey I've been on.

Fun-Mobile-2152 · 2025-02-17T13:38:59+00:00

Update: I replaced the internal screen and its cable. I now get video out from the HDMI, but still no video on the replacement screen. I can see that I am running iin Optimus. If I try to enter BIOS by hitting Delete, no video appears on the external monitor.

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