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Thank you from Stacey and I.
Though the kindness of everyone we made it to over $2000 to donate two, not one like we had planned at the start, camera packs to hospitals that need them. One will be going to the new Gold Coast...
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Animated QGIS map canvas item
Have you ever wanted to animate a QGIS map canvas item. No? Well soon you will. First we need to create a custom QgsMapCanvasItem from PyQt4.QtCore import QPointF, QRectF, QTimer, QObject,...
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Serving live tiles from a QGIS project via TileStache
I’m more then likly way behind the 8 ball here, aren’t all the cool kids doing tiles these days, but regardless I thought it was pretty cool to share. The other day I found TileStache a neat little...
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Using Hy, a dialect of Lisp for Python, with QGIS
So tonight I rediscovered Hy. I had seen Hy before a while ago but never really sat down and tried it. Tonight just must have been one of those days to try something new. So Hy is a dialect of Lisp but...
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Shortcuts to hide/show panels in QGIS
Just a quick one to show how to assign shortcuts to hide and show for panels in QGIS. Add this to your .qgis2\python\startup.py from functools import partial from qgis.utils import iface from...
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Function editor for QGIS expressions
A new feature for QGIS 2.8 is a function editor for expressions. Being able to define your own custom functions has be possible for a while now, over a year, I even have a plugin (Expressions+) that...
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New addition
Stace and I would like to welcome Matilda Anne Woodrow, born 5/1/15 at 10:36am. She is a nice way to start 2015. After the pretty crappy year that was 2014 it was finally nice to see Matilda in the...
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A interactive command bar for QGIS
Something that has been on my mind for a long time is a interactive command interface for QGIS. Something that you can easily open, run simple commands, and is interactive to ask for arguments when...
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PSA: Please use new style Qt signals and slots not the old style
Don’t do this: self.connect(self.widget, SIGNAL("valueChanged(int)"), self.valuechanged) It’s the old way, the crappy way. It’s prone to error and typing mistakes. And who really wants to be typing...
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Accessing composer item properties via custom expressions in QGIS
So here is a neat trick. Lets say you wanted to access the scale of a composer map to make it part of a label. The scale bar can already be set to numeric to show the number value but what if it needs...
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Hat racks; or appreciating people for what they do.
The biggest thing with open source work is that it can be pretty thankless. There is a lot more that goes into a open source project then just some lines of code, there is events, documentation, API...
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QGIS UI themes plugin
Scrap that idea. Seems there is already a plugin to do this called Load QSS. I’m not going to duplicate effort. Use that one and we can all make it better. Want to have a dark theme, or even your own...
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Mixing a bit of Excel into QGIS – conditional formatted table cells
I was using Excel the other day and used the conditional formatting rules to style some cells based on a condition. If you have never seen or used them they look like this: They are pretty handy for a...
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UI theme support now core in QGIS
I enjoy using the dark UI theme for QGIS so much I figured why not make it a core feature. In the next version of QGIS if you head to the options screen you can now find a UI Theme option. The default...
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Not always about new features
I love a good feature just as much as the next person but sometimes it’s great to fix a small workflow issue that has bugged you for the longest time. If you have ever seen this kind of dialog you will...
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Rendering web images as markers in QGIS
So here is an idea. Say you have a point layer that has a link to a static image from a web cam. Lets say it is a traffic camera for this use case. We can use that feed to see the image in a browser....
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Good news for QGIS MapInfo users
So some good news for QGIS users who also need/want to use MapInfo. QGIS via GDAL 2.0 can support MapInfo TAB file editing. In all older versions of GDAL there was only support for read and/or write...
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UIs are for the weak. Welcome to ASCII QGIS land
Have you ever thought “gee I wish I could have a ASCII QGIS map viewer for console use. I’m so over these fancy UIs with their fancy graphics, fonts, and icons”. No? Anybody? You are still reading?...
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Styling maps in QGIS is better when it’s interactive
I’m sure you are all well aware of my hate of blocking dialogs, and when it comes to styling QGIS has a few and they annoy me to no end. With new fancy map making tools like MapBox and CartoDB all...
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Speeding up QGIS build times with Ninja
As a developer, feedback is important when you are working. The quicker you have the feedback the quicker you can fix the issues. This doesn’t just apply to feedback from users/clients but also from...
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