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Wildlife survey specialist with interest in GIS and statistics, based in Arusha, Tanzania.

Work mostly with QGIS, R ... getting away from using ArcGIS and Excel!


May
13
comment How to download the entire ASTER GDEMv2 dataset?
This doesn't seem to work for areas outside the USA, unless there's an option I'm missing?
May
3
comment Filter contour lines in QGIS
Walking the dog is right up there with Atwood's "Rubber duck problem solving" perhaps.
May
3
comment Find closest point from origin in QGIS and display measure line in composer
Thanks for the sketch. Do you mean that you want to have a line automatically drawn between point and area, or is it enough to just calculate the nearest distances to each polygon and display that data on the composer?
May
2
comment Find closest point from origin in QGIS and display measure line in composer
What do you mean by 'constraint area'? Could you share a sketch of the output you're looking for?
Apr
28
comment Plotting large numbers of objects on a chart using R and WKT format
What issues are you facing? spRbind would probably do the job for you with a SpatialLinesDataFrame instead of rbind. However, if you're working with millions of objects, you probably are better off running the export job within the database or command line, then plotting in R.
Apr
22
answered How to make digitization more detailed afterwards with QGIS?
Apr
22
revised Plotting large numbers of objects on a chart using R and WKT format
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Apr
21
comment How to make digitization more detailed afterwards with QGIS?
Do you have topological editing turned on?
Apr
20
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Apr
20
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Apr
20
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Apr
20
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Apr
20
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Apr
20
suggested suggested edit on geokettle tag wiki excerpt
Apr
20
revised Geokettle transformation for FileGDB to SHP
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Apr
19
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Apr
19
comment Plotting large numbers of objects on a chart using R and WKT format
1. What difficulties are you having with this code as you have written it here? Can't test without the equivalent database. 2. This will be very slow for large numbers of objects if you add (z+1) to the vector each time - set the size initially with things <- vector("list", nrow(objects_1))
Apr
19
comment Plotting large numbers of objects on a chart using R and WKT format
OK - I've never had a chance to try that with a dB connection, didn't realise it worked one at a time (and that's why you were iterating over nrows in your question).
Apr
19
answered Plotting large numbers of objects on a chart using R and WKT format
Apr
19
comment Plotting large numbers of objects on a chart using R and WKT format
What about readWKT from the rgeos package? Won't that read your ShapeWKT data?