Re: [Qgis-user] Micro-Geometry Problems

2020-01-16 Thread Mike Shand
Steve (or any new QGIS users), For future reference, it is maybe better practice to digitise polygon sides simply as lines and then use one of the line>polygon tools in QGIS, GRASS or SAGA. Advantages are that you only digitise the lines once (much quicker, no double digitising) and so only re

Re: [Qgis-user] Vector Affine trouble

2019-01-13 Thread Mike Shand
GRASS7 commands which was one suggestion. (I wil look into that) Meanwhile, are there any other suggestions? Thanks again. Rutger Op 13 jan. 2019, om 15:29 heeft Mike Shand <mailto:mike.sh...@glasgow.ac.uk>> het volgende geschreven: Hi Rutger, If you have successfully conve

Re: [Qgis-user] Vector Affine trouble

2019-01-13 Thread Mike Shand
Hi Rutger, If you have successfully converted your Adobe Illustrator file into an ESRI shapefile (using Avenza MaPublisher or DXf export ?) please first check the quality of the linework in QGIS.  Any Illustrator vector bezier curves will probably have been simplified to straight lines.  To a

Re: [Qgis-user] Arusha Bioinformatics Workshops 2015 - QGIS; R stats.

2015-11-07 Thread Mike Shand
andalone printing or as part of reports and other publications. Trainer: Mike Shand (University of Glasgow) Prerequisites: A working knowledge of GIS and experience in map production. Sense of creativity in professional content writing for official purpose. 25-27 Nov US$225 3 day

[Qgis-user] QGIS/GPS and R Workshops Arusha, Tanzania

2015-10-08 Thread Mike Shand
skills. 23-27 Nov US$375 5 days. Cartographic design and map publication with QGIS How to create and design high quality maps with QGIS. The course is aimed at those who wish to produce high quality maps for standalone printing or as part of reports and other publications.

Re: [Qgis-user] How to reference a map with qGIS

2015-08-23 Thread Mike Shand
Regards, Mike Shand On 23/08/2015 02:29, James Keener wrote: When you export from composer, it's just a tiff, not a geotiff (someone else correct me if I'm wrong!) A quick-and-dirty solution may be to fake the tiff that was exported from the composer and georefernce it against yo

[Qgis-user] MAPPING EVENT - Glasgow, Scotland

2014-08-18 Thread Mike Shand
/program.html <http://www.soc.org.uk/soc2014/program.html> * **ONLINE booking <http://www.soc.org.uk/soc2014/booking.html>**is available until Friday 22 August,* after this date booking will be accepted by Cheque or Cash only. Regards, Mike Shand Loc

[Qgis-user] SOC 50th Annual Conference / Summer School of Cartography, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 2014

2014-06-05 Thread Mike Shand
ER DISCOUNTS (20%) on offer. *BURSARIES (4)*: TWO BURSARIES will be offered to members attending the Summer School for the FIRST time. TWO BURSARIES will be offered to student and overseas members. Regards, Mike Shand Local Organiser University of Glasgow mike.sh...@glasgow.ac.uk <mailto:mike.

Re: [Qgis-user] GPS issue on android tablet

2014-06-04 Thread Mike Shand
Zoltan, I suggest you create a Csv file and plot the points on a large scale map or hi-res satellite image. You say "varies very widely", a quick check indicated the max. variation between your points is approx 8m and the min. approx 1m. I would say if you are getting 3m GPS accuracy that is

Re: [Qgis-user] Mysterious coordinates (Italy)

2014-03-12 Thread Mike Shand
Hi Sarah, I think what you may have for (N 3904,668 - E 1652,784) is actually degrees, minutes and decimal minutes: N 39d 04min .668dec min (or 40.08sec [.668*60]) = N 39d 04min 40.08 sec E 16d 52min .784 dec min (or 47.04sec [.784*60]) = N 16d 52min 47.04 sec or in decimal degrees N 39.0778 E

Re: [Qgis-user] Query re: Area measures

2013-09-13 Thread Mike Shand
. This seemed to work fine as I was then able to calculate the population density. Any problems I can send it offline. Mike Mike Shand, FRSGS; MAppSci; FBCartS, Honorary Research Fellow (GIS Cartography) Geographical & Earth Sciences, University of Gla

Re: [Qgis-user] new user

2013-09-12 Thread Mike Shand
Albin, You are correct that SVG does cause some problems and often generates an error message which I usually ignore when exporting a file. A Pdf does work in Illustrator but I have had better success with SVG, especially if you wish to edit any map features or separate them into layers. Of co

Re: [Qgis-user] new user

2013-09-12 Thread Mike Shand
Gill, When using Adobe Illustrator an exported SVG from Print Compose works better than an exported PDF. Mike ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS to ArcGIS

2013-06-04 Thread Mike Shand
Hi Andreas, Many thanks for your extensive response which makes some very good points and has enlightened me on recent improvements that exist in v2.0. I will take on board your suggestions and also monitor more closely the posts on the QGIS list and on GIS stackexchange. Regards, Mike On 0

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS to ArcGIS

2013-06-04 Thread Mike Shand
>>You can see some of the maps made with only QGIS at http://www.flickr.com/groups/qgis/pool Some very impressive maps, QGIS can do most mapping tasks and does them very well, I look forward to the official release of QGIS 2.0. Does it now support both CMYK and RGB for symbol design and has any

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS to ArcGIS

2013-06-04 Thread Mike Shand
(with Avenza MaPublisher). Thanks to all for their comments. Regards, Mike Mike Shand, FRSGS; MAppSci; FBCartS, Honorary Research Fellow (GIS Cartography) Geographical & Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, Scotland, U.K. Tel: +44 (0)141 330 4780 E-mail

[Qgis-user] QGIS to ArcGIS

2013-06-03 Thread Mike Shand
Dear Users, Am I correct in thinking that it is currently not possible to convert a QGIS project file (.qgs) to an ArcGIS map file (.mxd). I know it can be done in reverse using the MXD2QGS Tool in ArcToolbox. Mike ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-use