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problem overlaying osm with os-derived data in QGIS - both British National Grid
I am currently working alongside city council datasets derived from Ordnance Survey; this is projected in their ArcSDE system as "British National Grid" or EPSG:27700. My problem is that I am trying ...
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How to get a QGIS useable style file from OS .xml and .xsl files?
Ordnance survey provide some style files to support their vectormaplocal product. The style files appear to come in pairs, similarly named but one with a .xml extension and the other .xls The two ...
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How can I merge adjacent polygons in a shapefile that have been split at tile boundaries?
I'm currently using building data from the Ordnance Survey Vectormap District and I've noticed that a lot of building polygons are split in 2 because of the way the OS split up the shapefile.
This is ...
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Convert Ordnance Survey NTF data to QGIS compatible format
Is there a way of converting Ordnance Survey NTF data to QGIS that will correctly import the data and build polygons?
QGIS will read the data as is, but it imports the polygons only as ...
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How to start from scanned maps in qgis
What I have:
A large TIFF covering parts of several contiguous sheets of the British OS 6 inch first edition. It has no georeferencing. It's just a series of scans which someone has stitched ...
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Is it acceptable to store OSGB36 data as geometry in SQL Server?
I've set myself a project of getting some geo data into SQL Server but before I get started doing any of the big jobs I wanted to see if I was on the right track.
All of my data is for the UK and is ...
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QGIS and Raster Mapping in 'Seamless' layer
I would like to use Ordnance Survey base mapping in QGIS. I would like to set up something like a seamless table in MapInfo. I think that the equivalent in QGIS is a Virtual Raster Table. The files ...
