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Nick Hopton is a retired ancient person who's background is in quarrying and ready-mixed concrete. His ambitions include learning more about how to make good maps and becoming an actuarial nightmare for his pension fund.


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comment How to create a Winkel-Tripel map of countries with different colors?
The last post on this page might help: anitagraser.com/2012/03/18/…
May
15
answered Which data format can be used with both QGIS Desktop and Android?
May
3
comment “Request contains a format not offered by the server.” Error when using CRS transformation with WMS in QGIS
I think the problem is that you are loading the layers as WGS84 lat/lon. When you click on the WMS layer you wish to load you are given the option to select the CRS you wish to use. Select a projected CRS such as EPSG:32633, for example. Note: once the data is loaded into QGIS you can't change its CRS by right-clicking on the layer in the layers panel and using the 'Set layer CRS' dialogue. N.
May
3
comment “Request contains a format not offered by the server.” Error when using CRS transformation with WMS in QGIS
Okay, another test. Could you download this QGIS project file and try to open it. What happens? dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/45121071/cz.qgs
May
3
comment “Request contains a format not offered by the server.” Error when using CRS transformation with WMS in QGIS
Which version of QGIS and which OS are you using? As I mentioned, there are no problems here with Master running under Ubuntu. N.
May
3
comment “Request contains a format not offered by the server.” Error when using CRS transformation with WMS in QGIS
Okay, one of the CRSs you can select when loading the layer is WGS84/UTM 33N (EPSG:32633). As a test, load the WMS layer using this CRS, then set the project CRS to EPSG:32633 and disable on-the-fly CRS tranformation. Then try zooming-in to see what happens.
May
2
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May
2
answered “Request contains a format not offered by the server.” Error when using CRS transformation with WMS in QGIS
Apr
30
comment Why Do Colors Look Darker When Printed on Paper?
Different PDF viewers can produce differing results, for me at least. In Ubuntu for example, printing from Adobe Reader produces heavy colours and fonts, Okular is better but not good and printing from the Document Viewer produces good results.
Apr
30
comment Problem with Georeferencer not scaling TIFcorrectly
It depends gene, with good, undistorted images two points are fine. Obviously, the greater the x and y distances between the two points the better. N.
Apr
29
comment Problem with Georeferencer not scaling TIFcorrectly
For two-point georeferencing I use Helmert and Linear. N.
Apr
26
comment Google maps and Ordnance Survey derived data licence restrictions
The shapes drawn on OS background mapping? It's an interesting question, just who 'owns' these? Not the Survey I guess. N
Apr
25
awarded  Constituent
Apr
23
comment Google maps and Ordnance Survey derived data licence restrictions
As a matter of interest what features do you wish to trace? Rights of way for example? N.
Apr
23
awarded  Caucus
Apr
20
answered Problem with labels on export/print a map (qgis master)
Apr
18
comment Problem with labels on export/print a map (qgis master)
It's a known issue, see: hub.qgis.org/issues/7627
Apr
18
comment Problem with labels on export/print a map (qgis master)
I confirm this problem with recent versions of Master. As you mention, it applies to all composer export formats. QGIS Master from Nightly, Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit) in my case.
Apr
14
comment Exporting QGIS attribute table to excel
What's new about this question is the number of rows and I think you're stuck here. Even if you could export a million rows from the DBF file Excel wouldn't be able to handle the data. If I remember rightly, the greatest number of rows Excel can handle is around 65,000. N.
Apr
4
answered Is it possible to always see all band values with Identify Features?