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New: Quantum map, a simplified QGIS version
An announcement on the QGIS mailing list about NIWA Quantum map made me curious. How is this going to differ from QGIS? As it turns out, NIWA Quantum map is basically QGIS with a simplified interface,...
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Massive data in GRASS GIS: try GRASS 7.0
If you have to deal with really large data sets in GRASS GIS, you might want to check out the new GRASS Wiki category; Massive data analysis. It contains a lot of good information and suggestions what...
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Docear 1.0 Beta 5 now with Zotero support
It looks like the people behind Docear had a look at my personal wishlist with some great new features (unfortunately one of these features is Windows only, see below). Most important, in my opinion,...
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A short note on the use of predict with the dismo or raster package
R has some great packages for species distribution modelling. One of these packages is the dismo package. Models objects created with one of the various distribution models available in dismo can be...
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OpenGeoDa – cross-platform and open source
GeoDa has been around for a while. It is a great and user-friendly tools for spatial analysis. It was however only available for Windows. That was last time I looked (quite some time ago). I just...
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New command dialogue styles for GRASS GIS
In the latest development version of GRASS GIS (version 7.0) there is now the option to switch between different command dialogue styles. There are 4 styles, 3 of them are new and they are providing...
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Selecting multiple layers in the GRASS GIS layer manager
Selecting multiple layers in the GRASS GIS wypython layer manager has always been possible. But there wasn’t much point to it. You couldn’t do anything with the multiple selections, no zooming,...
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Better winGRASS 7 with R-integration
If you are a Window user and are using or want to use R and GRASS in combination, you will be happy to by this announcement on the GFOSS blog that there is now a better integration of WinGRASS 7 …...
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Five new awesome QGIS features
Check out this post on Nathans QGIS and GIS blog: Five new awesomely awesome QGIS features. See also this blog post by Anita Graser, who describes improvements to the Symbol manager in more detail....
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pack up your GRASS raster layer
What if you want to get a number of raster maps from a mapset to bring with you? Or you want to back up a number of layers, but not the whole mapset? Of course you can export it as … Continue reading →
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Nice example of the use of geo-spatial tools in conservation and restoration...
If you are interested in the use of GIS / spatial tools in the development and implementation of a management plan of conservation areas, have a look at Robert (GeoBob) Ford’s blog. It gives background...
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Changing file permission on host in Wubi
I have Ubuntu installed on my laptop using Wubi. Wubi is an easy way of installing Ubuntu next to your Windows. After installing you will have a dual boot system, where you have to choose at start-up...
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Create new tables with subsets of your data using the Pivot table in LibreOffice
Just accidentally discovered this nifty feature in Calc of Libreoffice allowing to quickly create sub-sets of your data by double clicking on the row or column totals in a Pivot table. Suppose you have...
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A wealth of knowledge on biological diversity at your fingertips
I love this website of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Through this website, a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries have made available the legacy literature of biodiversity held in...
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You can now vote for your favorite QGIS plugin
The list of plugins for QGIS is becoming rather long, which is a testimony to how active the QGIS community is. It does make it more difficult to find and select the plug-ins for your work. And if you...
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Freezing LibreOffice icons on the Ubuntu Unity launcher
LibreOffice is still not playing nicely with the Unity interface of Ubuntu. For a start, it does not support the global menu. You can enable this by installing the lo-menu package (available in Ubuntu...
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ZIM desktop wiki 0.57 is out
I just got the latest update from ZIM desktop wiki, with some noticeable changes / improvements. From the release notes: Highlights of this release are a rework of the side panes, allowing plugins to...
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Integrating Maxent, R and GRASS GIS
The maximum-entropy (Maxent) methods is one of the most widely used approaches for species habitat modelling. It has its own dedicated software, the Maxent software (written in java and therefore...
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Disabling Ubuntu’s overlay-scrollbars for GRASS (or other applications)
Ubuntu has this new overlay-scrollbars for some time now. They look good I think, but unfortunately, they do not play nicely with GRASS GIS. So what if you want to keep them for most programs, but...
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A faster way to calculate MESS in R – or – a tribute to Stack overflow
Jean-Pierre Rossi introduced a function to calculate the “Multivariate Environmental Similarity Surfaces” in R. Since then, the function has become part of the dismo package, which is a package...
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