Category Archives: Mapping
Loading Landform Panorama Data into Postgres/PostGIS.
After a break enforced by my relocation from Singapore back to the UK I am now up an running again, so hopefully blog posts should become more regular! I have taken a slight diversion over the last week or so … Continue reading
Visualising data with Quantum GIS.
The first thing that most people want to do with GIS data is to create a visual representation, better known as a map. I’m no different, so this blog entry will cover how I hooked up the Quantum GIS application … Continue reading
Creating and populating a database.
Once I had installed PostGIS it was relative simple to create a spatial database instance. For convenience the first thing I did was create a database user with the same name as my Linux username. This means that the default … Continue reading
Obtaining some data.
Now that I’ve got my base Linux installation up and running, and installed the central PostgreSQL database, I need to download some OpenData to process. As I mentioned in my first post my main interest is in GIS and cartography … Continue reading
Using OpenData 