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Nyall Dawson
@nyalldawson
QGIS developer, cartographer, and proprietor of North Road Consulting. mastodon.social/@nyalld
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It's my birthday today, and I've got a meaty spatial problem to dive into and some interesting code to write... that's a pretty sweet birthday present in my view! 🥳
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Day 24 - Fantasy #30DayMapChallenge
Almost 1 year ago I was trying to recreate Read Dead Redemption 2 vibes in #QGIS. Today I picked again that project and tweaked here and there and that's the result. Will continue to improve this style because I like it too much
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Today's “30 Day Map Challenge” prompt is 🟩, so although I'm not participating this year I thought I'd show the reverse side of the Hike It board. I was asked for two versions of the map, one with green inside Great Smoky Mountains N.P. and one with green outside. Made in #QGIS!
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The main developer of the MOLD high performance linker is seeking for funding: phoronix.com/news/Mold-1.7 . I've been using it for GDAL and QGIS development and it really dramatically reduces linking time.
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OK, that's enough proof of concept... let's see if I can wrap this up into a live #QGIS map renderer now!
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(Bonus points to this variant for the attempted automatic map labelling and all the grounded shipwrecks!)
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and use the prompt "a map of Santa's island in the style of a traditional Christmas card" then I'm finally getting some (relatively) decent outputs!
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Oh I think we're onto a winner! If I start with this semi-finished map of a fictional "Christmas" island...
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A throwback to Stamen maps: "a watercolor painting of a map on high quality paper, stunning but also highly accurate"
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Oh this is better! "1800s nautical chart for navigation"
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Hmm... maybe crayon drawing maps just aren't supposed to be accurate!
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Maybe I need a more dense input map... let's try this one:
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Oh this is slightly better: "A crayon drawing of an ACCURATE street map where the features are in their original locations" (accuracy doesn't extend to map labels evidently!)
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(i'll update this thread as I progress...)
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Much closer! But still very little correlation to my input map. I certainly wouldn't want to be using this to navigate around 😆
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Let's get more descriptive and go with "a crayon drawing of a street map":
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Cute! But not at all what I had in mind 🤣
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First I'll use the text prompt "a crayon drawing". Here's the result:
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After spending way too long getting SD actually running locally, I'm ready to start re-imagining my maps! I'll start with a input layer of a super-simple road style:
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An ongoing thread about my late entry in the #30DayMapChallenge "A bad map" day: so for this one I thought I'd try an experiment I've planned for a while... a #QGIS layer renderer which uses the #stablediffusion img2img tool to reinterpret map layers using text prompts! 1/...
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I made a little Python script which lets #QGIS users replay a raw GPS log file and explore it using the temporal controller 🤩 Is there any demand for turning this into a proper plugin for others to use?
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And since we are talking about , bitmaps are no longer pasted as godawful floating selections, they are just new layers now. See nothing fancy is happening in this video? That's the point! :)
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I just realised I haven't seen an ad on here for the last couple of days... Thanks musk! 😂
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#30DayMapChallenge Day 4: Green - Been wanting to recreate the look of one of my favorite movies, and of a place I used to live. Here is a replication of one of the maps at the beginning of Repo Man (1984) done in #QGIS. During the titles you see this retro monitor green map.
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A lot has changed since our last #SLYR product update post, and we've tons of very exciting improvements and news to share with you all - here's a teaser...Export #QGIS documents to #Arcgispro fomats!
north-road.com/2022/11/04/sly
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An Australian western set in the goldfields of Ballarat, #TheDeathOfJohnLacey is a viscerally powerful story of greed, power and violence from the author of #SnakeIsland, @BenLeighHobson.
Available 31 January.
allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Be
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Hmm... will installing this patch make it harder or easier for me to finally defeat Melania? 😂
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ELDEN RING patch 1.07 is available now.
Full patch notes can be viewed here: bnent.eu/ER_Patch107
Please apply this patch to continue playing #ELDENRING online.
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Spent the last 2 days heads-down in a mini-hackfest with the ever-brilliant @mdsumner... among other great stuff we experimented with an interactive #RStats console inside #QGIS! I'm excited to see where we can take this 
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You don't need to respond to feature requests from transphobes. You don't need to welcome rapists back into your communities. When people tell you that free software and hacking should be about technology and not people, you can just tell them to fuck off.
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In collaboration with and we are launching point cloud processing for . Your help is needed to bring this and more new exciting features for the profile tool to QGIS:
lutraconsulting.co.uk/crowdfunding/p
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Peak spatial 👌
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There is no official database of municipal electoral boundaries in Saskatchewan.
The only way to get the information is to drive to a central archive, photograph 300 paper maps, and hand-digitize the result.
Here's my progress so far...
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Did 's spam filter just give up earlier this week? All of a sudden I'm getting tons of spam in my inbox 😱
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We are frequently asked about the best way to access ArcGIS Online/ArcGIS Portal content through #QGIS. There's a few tricks to setting this up correctly, so we've updated our step-by-step guide here: north-road.com/2022/09/16/sec
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I've realised that I passionately **hate** smart phones. They've stolen SO much from us, and given us so little in return 😭
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We are just a little excited to bring you Mixed Format Labels coming in QGIS 3.28! You have to thank for funding our development of this fun feature! #gischat #QGIS #QGISAU Read more about it here north-road.com/2022/09/09/mix
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