Category: NZTekonverse -> Qgis
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More useful Linux software
Obviously one thing you need with an operating system platform is software that will run on it. Every platform has stuff that is produced cross-platform and stuff that is only for its platform, and we constantly have the issue that something we want to run is not available on the platform we use most of…
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Qgis testing
Since my last post it seems fair to say that Qgis is like a lot of open source projects a largely community effort. There may be some people that are paid but in reality a lot of contributions are voluntary. I shouldn’t be too demanding with issues because they are working to a deadline at…
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Debian vs Xubuntu: The ideal Qgis VM production environment
So having discovered a bug in the Qgis composer as the reason my homebuilt Qgis VMs crash and not any other reason, this idea of building from source has actually been not such a bad thing at all and has left me with something that actually works all in one VM and one that is…
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Building Qgis from source code
UPDATE 2: Well in spite of my comments as below, it seems I have discovered a new bug in version 2.18 LTS of Qgis as well as the home built master with the composer crashing the software when attempting to render a map. It may well be that there is a bug in this master,…
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Linux is still miles better than Windows any day
My Windows PC doesn’t even get turned on that much now. It is only for a few holdout applications like the cameras and IrfanView that I really need it for. At the moment I am using it to author some of the maps, but that isn’t happening all of the time. It can cope with…
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Fix for Qgis unable to open lots of aerial images on Linux editions
After some forethought the lovely Qgis people have come up with the issue being a limit on the number of open files. This is a deliberate security feature designed into Linux. Fortunately it is not, as was first alleged, an architectural limitation of Linux. I have used the prlimit command with –nofile to increase the…
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Artful release date set for 19 October
So the date for the Artful release (17.10) of Xubuntu has been set for 19 October, about eight weeks away. I have been running it on all three of my Linux computers for several months and have noticed only a few minor issues. Mainly the issues boiled down to: In a number of cases I…
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The joys of running development software
Obviously I’m having a bit of fun with a GNU/Hurd VM and the Free BSD one was to see if I could get Qgis running on a different platform other than Linux. This ultimately has failed because I could not map the network share from MainPC. The Win98 VM is not running Windows 98 because…
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Qgis map development
So as announced on my maps blog I am working to wind the maps project up by the end of this year and I am writing a series of articles that will be published in this timeframe. They will cover the Otago Central Railway but I am working concurrently on updating several different sections of…
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Xubuntu Artful
So now I have all three computers in my household running Artful. Which everyone assumes will come out as 17.10 in a few months. The issues haven’t been too major but the latest big issue is installing it on computers like mediapc with the problem that it has with the two screens with different resolutions.…