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How to get GIS going at your school - Cover Image
Education
How to get GIS going at your school

GIS is the exciting world of modern and applied geography. It can seem overwhelming to implement GIS in your school curriculum. This is a one-stop teacher's guide to getting GIS going in your classroo

Workshop - Making Your Own Maps for Publication Using QGIS  - Cover Image
Conference
Workshop - Making Your Own Maps for Publication Using QGIS

An overview of the QGIS workshop presented at the Society of South African Geographers Biennial Conference 2022.

QGIS Road to Nerdvana Episode 19 and 20
QGIS
QGIS Road to Nerdvana Episode 19 and 20

Episode 19 is a walk through using the Google Earth Engine Time series Explorer plugin for QGIS.

QGIS Road to Nerdvana Intern Edition
QGIS
QGIS Road to Nerdvana Intern Edition

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

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

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

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.

QGIS Road to Nerdvana Episode 12: Dashboards Revisited!
QGIS
QGIS Road to Nerdvana Episode 12: Dashboards Revisited!

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

QGIS Style Sharing Repository
QGIS
QGIS Style Sharing Repository

Woohoo! A new way to share styles in QGIS!

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

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

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 11: Aggregate Dashboards
QGIS
QGIS Road to Nerdvana Episode 11: Aggregate Dashboards

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.

QGIS Road To Nerdvana Episode 8: It's All a Big Meshunderstanding
QGIS
QGIS Road To Nerdvana Episode 8: It's All a Big Meshunderstanding

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

QGIS Road to Nerdvana Episode 9: Building a 3D Scene from Scratch
QGIS
QGIS Road to Nerdvana Episode 9: Building a 3D Scene from Scratch

In this episode Tim Sutton will show you how to make a simple 3D scene in QGIS. Leave your comments and questions below and enjoy

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

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

QGIS Road to Nerdvana Episode 7: Logging Postgres Calls
PostGIS
QGIS Road to Nerdvana Episode 7: Logging Postgres Calls

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 4: Dealing with Issues
QGIS
QGIS Road to Nerdvana Episode 4: Dealing with Issues

In this episode of QGIS road to Nerdvana, Tim Sutton will be showing you a workflow 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 5: Tweaking the First Run Dialog
QGIS
QGIS Road to Nerdvana Episode 5: Tweaking the First Run Dialog

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

Tim Sutton shows you how to use QtCreator to build QGIS in a graphical development environment

QGIS Road to Nerdvana Episode 3: QGIS QA using Astyle and Pre-commit Hooks
QGIS
QGIS Road to Nerdvana Episode 3: QGIS QA using Astyle and Pre-commit Hooks

On today’s episode Tim Sutton and world-renowned QGIS developer Matthias Kuhn walk you through the setup process for using 'astyle precommit hooks'

QGIS Road to Nerdvana Episode 1: QGIS Console Build
QGIS
QGIS Road to Nerdvana Episode 1: QGIS Console Build

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.