AIM
So you want to be an Aeronautical Cartographer or an Instrument Flight Procedure Designer
My experience over the years of what you need to learn to start working in Aeronautical Charting and PANS OPS
GIS
20 years of QGIS! It has been a long time
Amazing journey for the QGIS team! 20 years and the project keeps getting better and better
GIS
How to list layers from QGIS projects using PYQGIS
In a previous life I used to have a lot of QGZ projects to deal with and had many different layers with different sources when I did aviation charting for an Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP), even more than a decade ago I had to deal with lots of projects Read more…
GIS
How to make a buffer using PYQGIS and processing algorithms – QGIS
Ever wanted to learn PYQGIS in QGIS! In this video I go over how to do a buffer using the processing algorithms with PYQGIS
GIS
How to create multiple ring buffers in QGIS including dashed line symbology and stacked labels
Many times you need to create multiple ring buffers and then style using something else than a polygon, in the past I used to convert to a line and delete the duplicates in order to guarantee nothing would overlap.
AIM
Reading AIXM Obstacle Data
I did a YouTube video no how you can read AIXM 5.1 vertical structures, which is where the obstacle data is stored. As more countries start releasing their data in formats like AIXM there is an increasing need to be able to read the format and extract the relevant information. Read more…
AIXM
AIXM Import into ArcGIS using QGIS (2013 Video!)
I was going through some old video material I had in my cloud drive to make up for more space when I found this gem of a video. It brought back so many memories including my starts with the Aeronautical Information Exchange Model (AIXM) and how to be able to Read more…
Aviation
Creating Basic ILS Surfaces using FPAssistant
Using Basic ILS with FPAssistant and QGIS to visualize in 3D
GIS
QGIS symbol displacement using expressions
QGIS has very powerful options to deal with many situations, in this post I deal with displacing overlapping symbology of two different layers using QGIS expressions