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I enjoy long walks on the beach. I then take GPS tracklogs of those walks and import them into a GIS where I make maps of the beaches I have walked on in an effort to walk more beaches.


May
16
comment Can the new Mapbox Vector Tiles be used as a QGIS basemap?
interesting hack! I might try that out!
May
16
comment Can the new Mapbox Vector Tiles be used as a QGIS basemap?
@Dane: Thanks for reply and thoughts! Personally I'm just planting seeds in the Mapbox garden as well as the QGIS plugin...I consider QGIS a client of Mapbox in this case - the authoring environment for basemaps is well handled by tilemill/mapbox, and see no reason (as of yet) to handle design of OSM-based basemaps in QGIS...Looking forward to seeing what evolves! (ps. how do you add carriage returns in a stackexchange comment?!?!)
Apr
10
comment Why won't this mapbox map load into a DIV container?
Strange: it does work in your posted example and when I bring your code down locally it works...yet my project doesn't load the map and the jsfiddle doesn't work! I wonder what' up??? Thank you @kevin for taking a look at this!
Apr
9
comment Why won't this mapbox map load into a DIV container?
That doesn't seem to work either - see updated jsfiddle...(I actually had that changed but the changes are stored in the URL it seems)
Apr
8
comment How do you parse an HTML formatted attribute value to seperate columns in a database table?
@til_b you're a straight up python ninja. THANK YOU!!! I was able to create a CSV from this script...When I get this published, I want to give you some credit if you'd like...basically the data can't be formatted from the source database kept by prisonersofthecensus.org...so this was the only way to get it into 'data'...if you could send me an email: matt baker all one word at gmail dot com
Apr
3
comment Can CartoDB and Mapbox.js talk?
All, Tom MacWright has solved this issue here: support.mapbox.com/discussions/mapbox-tiles/…
Apr
3
comment How do you parse an HTML formatted attribute value to seperate columns in a database table?
@til_b see below for CSV creation...
Apr
3
comment How do you parse an HTML formatted attribute value to seperate columns in a database table?
@til_b I greatly appreciate this! First off, what I'd ultimately be after is a CSV of the name, prisoner count, and lat, lon so I can replot / convert to SHP...this is a good learning tool for me, though, as I finally got aptana running as a python IDE to make your script work (thank you again!). If you have any thoughts about CSV creation, let me know. Anything helps, and as usual, teaches me a lot!!! Thank you again!!!
Apr
2
comment How do you parse an HTML formatted attribute value to seperate columns in a database table?
Thank you, Jay!
Apr
2
comment How do you parse an HTML formatted attribute value to seperate columns in a database table?
thanks blah238 for the kind words...
Apr
2
comment How do you parse an HTML formatted attribute value to seperate columns in a database table?
Til_b - that is really confusing so I'll just post the KML ...
Apr
2
comment How do you parse an HTML formatted attribute value to seperate columns in a database table?
That's right, Om...
Mar
7
comment Can OpenLayers layers in QGIS have transparency?
I'll try that out! Thanks, Anita!
Feb
21
comment Can the units of the measure tool in QGIS be changed?
Thanks, sir or ma'am - worked like a charm!!!
Feb
11
comment How do you use 'reclass' in GRASS?
Ok I got the reclass tool to work in GRASS directly - and it works really well, actually (love that I can have the reclass text file open while I have the tool open too - just so I can 'tweak' the reclass, then run the tool to see the update!) I'm going to try to run the tool again now that I have a GRASS dataset put together...
Feb
8
comment How to perform Raster Reclassification in QGIS?
Do you know what a reclass table file should look like for the GRASS tool?
Feb
7
comment Calculating distance to points in QGIS
In order to rasterize, it seems there must be an existing raster on disk. How do you create that raster???
Jan
29
comment Auto-calculate field (area or formula)
This triggers option sounds promising, as this would allow for other functions besides simply calculating area to be executed... Any idea as to how to create/execute a trigger?
Jan
29
comment Can python read the value of a cell in a spreadsheet?
Thank you all for your responses - I'm glad I posted here, as I knew GIS folks would have some insight into this!
Jan
29
comment Can python read the value of a cell in a spreadsheet?
@whuber: I got more response here than I did with stackoverflow... Since you closed this - for some reason - I may not get further responses!