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A new plugin to manage land (survey) parcels in QGIS

Posted by: Admire Nyakudya | in QGIS | 6 years, 9 months ago | 0 comments

Kartoza releases the CoGo Plugin for QGIS

Kartoza recently published the CoGo Plugin (aka Parcel Plugin) in the QGIS plugin repository. This plugin expands the group of plugins designed to manage SDI (Spatial Data Infrastructure). CoGo ('coordinate geometry') refers to its ability to handle both types of coordinates used in land surveying, namely cartesian coordinates (x,y; long/lat) and polar coordinates (bearing and distance).

Changing the line direction of line features using the geometry generator in QGIS

Posted by: Admire Nyakudya | in QGIS | 7 years, 1 month ago | 3 comments

I have been playing around with roads layers and wanted to change the line directions for some of my features. I looked around for solutions to do this in QGIS and saw that I could use the swap vector direction plugin in QGIS or ST_reverse in PostgreSQL. But I wanted to find a non destructive way to do this as I did not want to alter my data. I decided to try the geometry generator in QGIS.

Create a custom reference grid in QGIS composer

Posted by: Gavin Fleming | in QGIS | 7 years, 1 month ago | 5 comments

If you need to create a reference grid like this for your map, here's a simple method.