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QGIS Road to Nerdvana Episode 19 and 20

Posted by: Seabilwe Tilodi | in QGIS | 3 years, 7 months ago | 0 comments

Today's blog shows the next two episodes in the Road to Nerdvana series. Episode 19 is a walk through using the Google Earth Engine Time series Explorer plugin for QGIS.

QGIS Road to Nerdvana Intern Edition

Posted by: Seabilwe Tilodi | in QGIS | 3 years, 8 months ago | 0 comments

The interns took over the Nerdvana space, showing off their mapping skills using QGIS

QGIS Road to Nerdvana Episode 18: Introduction to PostgreSQL and PostGIS

Posted by: Seabilwe Tilodi | in PostGIS, QGIS | 3 years, 8 months ago | 0 comments

This is a walk-through showing how PostgreSQL and PostGIS can be used as a geospatial data store and then the data in that store be consumed and created by geopandas.

QGIS Road to Nerdvana Episode 14: Fun and games with QGIS Server

Posted by: Seabilwe Tilodi | in QGIS | 3 years, 9 months ago | 0 comments

In this episode, Charles and Tim walk through setting up a QGIS server in docker with data and QGIS project files published in PostgreSQL / PostGIS. They have made a resource pack with the configuration files created and the sampled data etc., all of which are available at:

QGIS Road to Nerdvana Episode 12: Dashboards revisited!

Posted by: Seabilwe Tilodi | in QGIS | 3 years, 9 months ago | 7 comments

In case you missed out on Episode 12 of our QGIS Road to Nerdvana, click on the link and enjoy the stream:

QGIS Style Sharing Repository

Posted by: Seabilwe Tilodi | in QGIS | 3 years, 10 months ago | 0 comments

Woohoo! A new way to share styles in QGIS! Work sponsored by Kartoza.

QGIS Road to Nerdvana Episode 11: Aggregate dashboards

Posted by: Seabilwe Tilodi | in QGIS | 3 years, 11 months ago | 0 comments

Tim Sutton decided to change things up a bit, he was joined by Charles and Seabilwe from Kartoza and the three made aggregate dashboards in QGIS. It is just the first steps and a lot of bumbling around, but hey, maybe you will learn something!

QGIS Road To Nerdvana Episode 10: Speed Map Making (part 2)

Posted by: Seabilwe Tilodi | in QGIS | 3 years, 11 months ago | 0 comments

Why make just one map in the quickest time possible? Make more! In this video, Tim Sutton will again try to go from Zero to a Nice Looking Map as quick as he can.

QGIS Road to Nerdvana Episode 10: Speed Map Making (part 1)

Posted by: Seabilwe Tilodi | in QGIS | 3 years, 11 months ago | 0 comments

In this video, Tim Sutton will be  trying to go from Zero to Nice Looking Map as quick as he can. See how he goes about creating the map and see if you can't make a nice looking map in 30 minutes.

QGIS Road to Nerdvana Episode 9: Building a 3D scene from scratch

Posted by: Seabilwe Tilodi | in QGIS | 3 years, 11 months ago | 0 comments

In this episode, Tim Sutton will show you how to make a simple 3D scene in QGIS.

QGIS Road To Nerdvana Episode 8: It's all a big meshunderstanding

Posted by: Seabilwe Tilodi | in QGIS | 3 years, 11 months ago | 0 comments

In this episode, watch along as Tim Sutton explores some new mesh capabilities coming in QGIS 3.16!

QGIS Road to Nerdvana Episode 7: Logging Postgres Calls

Posted by: Seabilwe Tilodi | in PostGIS, QGIS | 4 years ago | 0 comments

In this episode, Tim Sutton will show you how to enable PostgreSQL logging and what underlying queries are generated by QGIS or any other PostgreSQL client.

QGIS Road to Nerdvana Episode 6 - Responding to feedback on Episode 5 Pull Request

Posted by: Seabilwe Tilodi | in QGIS | 4 years ago | 0 comments

This episode is a follow-up from Episode  5, responding to the feedback received.
Enjoy

QGIS Road to Nerdvana Episode 5: Tweaking the first run dialog

Posted by: Seabilwe Tilodi | in QGIS | 4 years ago | 15 comments

In this episode, Tim Sutton takes you along for the ride as he picks a long-time irritation in QGIS: The first run dialog. He tweaks it to make it look nice to submit it as a pull request to QGIS.

QGIS Road to Nerdvana Episode 4: Dealing with Issues

Posted by: Seabilwe Tilodi | in QGIS | 4 years ago | 0 comments

In this episode of QGIS road to Nerdvana, Tim Sutton will be showing you a work flow that will aid in dealing with issues encountered with a QGIS that compiles, so you won’t have to compile or debug.

QGIS Road to Nerdvana Episode 3: QGIS QA using astyle and pre-commit hooks

Posted by: Seabilwe Tilodi | in QGIS | 4 years, 1 month ago | 0 comments

We are back with another episode of our roads to Nerdvana. On today’s episode, Tim Sutton and world-renowned QGIS developer Matthias Kuhn walk you through the setup process for using 'astyle precommit hooks' – basically clever tools that will make sure your code looks smart and neat automatically so that nobody rejects it for not being standard compliant when you make a pull request.

QGIS Road to Nerdvana Episode 2: QGIS QtCreator Build on Pop_OS! 20.04

Posted by: Seabilwe Tilodi | in QGIS | 4 years, 1 month ago | 0 comments

In today’s video blog, Tim Sutton shows you how to use QtCreator to build QGIS in a graphical development environment. The key entries used when setting up 3D support and here are the commands used to install QtCreator:

QGIS Road to Nerdvana Episode 1: QGIS Console Build

Posted by: Seabilwe Tilodi | in QGIS | 4 years, 1 month ago | 0 comments

QGIS Road to Nerdvana is an exciting series of videos blogs that walk you through building QGIS environments to installing and using QTCreator all running on Ubuntu 20.04.

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