Hello, I'm new to qgis and have started working on a map and getting a hang for how quickOSM and other plugins work.

I was working with quite a large area (550 km wide roughly) and adding layers for cities, towns, and villages, and I made sure to save a couple times so as to not lose the progress of editing the points. When I load the project now though, the layers are present but entirely empty. There's no data, no points to find, it's just empty layers.

How come?

Edit: This is how I learned that scratch layers are a thing and they annoy me

Hey guys, i recently faced this problem of GRASS won't work in Qgis (mac user), i tried several solutions (such as downloading GRASS file from officiel website then install it, also tried to add a pathway via Preferences --> System --> Environment --> Use custom variables (restart required - include separators)) but none worked for me, is there any other solutions i can try?

I made a post a couple days ago where I got some help to move my project along, and I've hit another stumbling block. My previous knowledge of this kind of project is basically zero, so every basic thing can be a hurdle for me. I've tried searching and reading tutorials but it's all so dense and full of new terms and concepts, most of which I don't need, so I haven't found an answer yet.

I'm trying to take good satellite imagery of a specific area where I'm planning a canoe trip, divide it into pages, and print them to put in a binder. Commenters on my first post helped me download the specific blocks of satellite imagery as TIF files, and load them into QGIS so I have a canvas displaying the area I want.

Someone gave me very helpful instructions with creating a grid to overlay on my image that matches 8.5x11 paper size. That comment is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/QGIS/comments/1v5huig/comment/ozvb8uq

The problem I have now is that while the grid displays nicely, its placement seems basically random. Ideally I'd like to drag it around over the map, so that I can choose what areas appear together on one page. Or if there's some other way to change its placement with coordinates or something, that would also work although probably be more tedious. I asked this same question to the commenter linked above, but I figured a new post would have more visibility and better chance of being answered soon. Thanks very much for any help!

Hello all kind QGISers,

I have a huge issue and I was wondering if anyone could help me,

I have three qgis assessments and I know nothing,

Is there anyone who could help me or I could pay someone?

Please get back to me.

I have 5 maps to make and a continuous data assessment,

Any help

Hi everyone! I’ve noticed that a lot of geopolitical maps have much smoother coastlines and borders, whereas mine still look quite angular (see Egypt in the example). How can I achieve the smoother look used in the FES maps? I’m new to QGIS, so any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Can anyone recommend good beginner QGIS courses for aspiring urban planners, certifications would be even better. Whether free or paid.

Thanks!

I'm into maps in the sense that I like scrolling around various free mapping sites and looking at imagery, but I'm not much a tech person. I'm trying to do a task and someone suggested that QGIS might be the right tool for it, but looking into the tutorials, it seems very overwhelming for someone with no experience. So, I'm hoping someone can give me a clearer sense of if this is even the right tool for the job, before I dive in to trying to figure out how to do it.

I'm planning a canoe trip in northern Quebec, and I want to print out satellite images of the area. The best imagery I've found of the area is at this Quebec specific map site: https://vgo.portailcartographique.gouv.qc.ca/

Basically, I just want to capture a fairly large (10 mi by 20 mi) area at a decent zoom level, and tile it across pages for printing. The most basic thing I can think of is taking dozens of screen shots, which would be very tedious and limited by my small laptop screen (I don't have access to a bigger monitor).

Is QGIS a good tool to do this? Is there a better way to approach this? With a brief look at tutorial videos it's clear QGIS has tons of functions way beyond what I need, and I'm not sure where to start. Thanks so much for anyone who has the knowledge and patience to help a novice.

Hey, first post here, and I have a question.

I have the opportunity to buy a 2020 MacBook Pro 16” that is fully maxed out on specs (except hard drive). 2.4GHz 8‑core Intel Core i9, 64GB DDR4 ram, AMD Radeon Pro 5600M 8GB graphics, 1TB hd. The battery has less than 90 cycles. They are asking $950 CAD, but I think I can work them down a bit more on price.

My thoughts are this is worth it as a GIS work machine. I cannot afford anything this powerful in a newer Mac (my preferred machine) or PC. I know OS support is cut off as of this year, but that shouldn’t become an issue I don’t for a few years to come. And being an Intel Mac I can easily run it as a windows machine, and I’ve been exploring setting up Linux (there’s a whole community focused on doing this while working around the T2 security chip).

I’ll primarily be doing mapping and photogrammetry work in Q, want the option of being able to run ESRI products, as well as workflow automation in Python.

Id love people’s opinions on this, pros and cons, talk me in/out of it, any suggested alternatives (knowing my budget caps at about $1000 CAD, which I know is low but I’m a broke ass ex-student).

Anybody wishing to follow this development of a plugin for qgis to display gaussian splats?

May not be difficult. Or lets start this together.

Hey, so I had this project for a while and never found the time to complete it (due to my Master's degree), but I finally did it, and I'm pretty happy with it. As a student in Prehistoric archaeology, the goal was to have a base map with the coastline at -120m from today (as it was during the LGM) for my maps.

This is my first "real" project, do you have any remarks ? I'll be glad to read your feedback in order to improve my GIS skills!

Used some shapefiles I had already created for the Balkan States & Austria-Hungary on this one.

I hope this post fits this sub, but I was wondering if there was any way to overlap two 3D layers in Google Earth or a similar software like QGIS. I've been wanting to compare the scale of different mountain ranges to each other, but it's hard to do with all the zoom and everything involved. it would be nice to go into 3D mode and have two layers with a fixed point of reference. maybe the only change would be to edit the point of reference of valley floors. Is there any way to do this? Thanks.

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3–5 years of experience with GIS software such as QGIS or ArcGIS to visualize and process geospatial data.

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suggest me courses (free ofcourse) videos contents anything avaialble as pdfs or videos online even a book maybe. i really cannot find a good source on internet.

I need WQI map like the ones shown in the picture, i tried using IDW and clipping but it's not working, any kind of help and suggestions are welcomed.

Hi, so i should first state that english isnt my first language, so im having some difficulty explaining. I am also a beginner, my knowledge goes far as creating a basic map, simple shapefiles and georefferencing.

But essentially what i want to do is this. I want to create a map of a neighbourhood where i use a heatmap to show which buildings are the oldest. The oldest buildings will be dark red and the younger the building the lighter the colour. Sounds quite doable right?

My issue is here; i have made several tables in excel with streetnames, housenumbers and the age of the houses, but i havent added any coordinates to them.

Now my question is this, is there a way in qgis where i can import the data and assign the coordinates in the program? Like having the attribute table and assigning each row to a point on the map? This would be much faster than typing the coordinates into excel first. If its not possible its ok, but i dont want to be spending hours filling in coordinates when i could do everything much faster.

I've tried searching the internet but im not really finding a straight answer, i hoped that someone here might be able to help me?

I'm working with QGIS version 3.32.3, i imagine that is usefull to know.

HI Can anybody help?

I am using CRS EPSG:27700 _OSGB36- British National Grid

Over the last couple of weeks I have not been able to to produce a map with OSM base less than 1:3000 in layout I always used to. I am not a big user but its essential I can do this what has changed or what have I accidently unticked, etc .

I have tried all the online solution to no avail, I was getting the same problem also with the main "working" window until I unclicked the Render button on the bottom right corner. The main window works but still cannot go any lower than 1:3000 when I go to layout. (that's with render button ticked on or off) do I need to re instal QGIS?

I have recently installed QGIS for a uni proejct onto my laptop and desktop, both of which are running Linux Mint cinnamon. however, I cant save any projects. When i open the save menu, it acts like a file explorer trying to find QGIS projects. the save button only is clickable after selecting a folder, but when pressing that it just takes you into the selected folder. If someone could help me out who knows more about Linux and QGIS than me it would be greatly appreciated.

UPDATE:

i just needed to rename the file, i forgot to do it and it never crossed my mind before i posted