Nigel Law

549 reputation

315

bio	website	aclepostoffice.co.uk
	location	Norwich, United Kingdom
	age	59
visits	member for	9 months
	seen	yesterday
stats	profile views	41

VERY new to GIS in any format! As a Parish Councillor (volunteer, unpaid position) I have identified a need to be able to add our own layers to Ordnance Survey mapping data. So, here I am trying to get to grips with GIS concepts in general and QGIS specifically.

I consider myself to be computer savvy but have never had to learn complicated software in a field I know so little about. I use forums quite a bit but not in such a techie rich environment so the whole stackexchange environment and forum layout is new to me and a little daunting. I keep thinking that at 58 years of age I shouldn't be doing this to myself :)

Very slowly getting to grips with GIS and the software technology that accompanies it. As I learn more I realise that there are more 'real life' uses that I could put QGIS to. I would like to have a layers for all the Parish street furniture and I particularly want to produce an application that will enable us to log data about our street lights including fault reports, repairs and associated costs etc. Recently realised that I may well have to get to grips with some sort of database product and thinking that PostgreSQL might be the way forward.

The more I learn the more I realise I do not know and the bigger the tasks get :)

	549 reputation	bio	website	aclepostoffice.co.uk	visits	member for	9 months
315 badges		location	Norwich, United Kingdom		seen	yesterday

summary answers questions tags badges favorites bounties reputation activity

139 Actions

suggestions reviews revisions comments badges posts accepts all

May 3	awarded	Citizen Patrol
Apr 26	awarded	Vox Populi
Apr 22	awarded	Constituent
Apr 19	awarded	Caucus
Apr 5	awarded	Autobiographer
Apr 5	comment	How long for surveying quality GPS to get accurate 3D position information Thanks @Mapperz. I wasn't able to get that link into my post from my mobile device at the time.
Apr 5	comment	How long for surveying quality GPS to get accurate 3D position information Thanks Guys. My mistake was in forgetting what I used to know about GPS and thinking that survey grade kit was somehow magically more accurate; I forgot that the errors are not for the most part in the kit but in the rest of the 'system'. The blog that @Mapperz has managed to post a link to above is the one I was reading. It does state that post processing was required and I understand why now :)
Apr 5	accepted	How long for surveying quality GPS to get accurate 3D position information
Apr 5	comment	How long for surveying quality GPS to get accurate 3D position information The equipment in question is a Leica GS15.
Apr 5	asked	How long for surveying quality GPS to get accurate 3D position information
Mar 29	awarded	Tumbleweed
Mar 24	comment	How to get a QGIS useable style file from OS .xml and .xsl files? Thank you Gene. I was in the process of reading through some of the documentation associated with the xml and xls files but had not come across the reference to the SLD files. I don't know how I missed them on the OS website. I do find that tracking down related documents is sometimes difficult on the OS website. Most of my problem is not having the knowledge to understand much of what I read :( Also thanks to Underdark for her info on SLD Support etc, I'm working through it :)
Mar 24	accepted	How to get a QGIS useable style file from OS .xml and .xsl files?
Mar 23	asked	How to get a QGIS useable style file from OS .xml and .xsl files?
Mar 23	revised	Style Manager import problem Inserted some code from problem file.
Mar 22	asked	Style Manager import problem
Mar 21	comment	get value from attribute table and change symbology with QGIS and Python Thanks Jay, I learn something useful everyday :)
Mar 21	answered	get value from attribute table and change symbology with QGIS and Python
Mar 21	comment	QGIS 1.8.0 Mac where is measure window or measure area symbol? I hope you get a result John.
Mar 19	comment	QGIS 1.8.0 Mac where is measure window or measure area symbol? John. I've only ever used it to measure area by plotting round an existing polygon. It drags the measured area out as you have probably seen. I don't know if you can use it to just specify an existing polygon to work on and have it give you the area. I suspect there must be a way to do this but I'm afraid I don't know the method.