Bird's Eye View GIS

04/30/2019

Discover QGIS 3.x - A Workbook for Classroom or Independent Study is now available digitally & in paperback! https://locatepress.com/dq3 15 of the 32 exercises are brand new. Features a new Data Visualization section & Appendices covering: Keyboard shortcuts | Plugins | Getting involved

02/23/2018

Given that it's I thought I'd put together a post about my favorite features so far. I've been using the nightlies for months and this is what I've found...and I know there's a ton more beyond this! QGIS

I've spent the last couple months test driving the nightly releases of QGIS 2.99. I have used it in a production environment for paying clients and it works really well. I've crunched data and made maps. So for I thought I'd quickly run through some of my favorite new features. Note: This

12/29/2017

My "Harper's Index" for 2017

Overview Number of clients served: 22 Percentage of clients which were new: 41% Approximate number of maps made: 256 Minimum number of weeks it took me to complete my GeoHipster interview: 10 Percentage of GeoHipster calendar submissions accepted: 50% Percentage of blogs authored vs the number I hop

10/11/2017

A blog post about two recent trips to the Shorecrest neighborhood in Miami to map and document king tide flooding.

In the last three weeks I've flown to Miami twice, each time for the Community Health Maps (CHM) project. This is a project I've been working on for years. The goal is to empower underserved populations with low cost, intuitive mapping tools. The work is funded by the National Library of Med

09/09/2017

Had a great turn out for a Community Health Maps workshop at UConn. Everyone learned how to use Fulcrum, Carto & QGIS.

08/21/2017

https://www.birdseyeviewgis.com/blog/2017/8/12/another-great-qgis-conference-in-denmark

From August 2-10 The third QGIS User Conference, Hackfest and Developer Meeting was held in Nødebo Denmark at the University of Copenhagen – Forest and Landscape College (Københavns Universitet Skovskolen). I was fortunate to attend as I did in 2015. The first two days were the users conferenc

05/02/2017

https://www.birdseyeviewgis.com/blog/2017/5/1/at-least-10-reasons-you-should-be-using-qgis

Last Friday I gave a talk at the spring New Mexico Geographic Information Council (NMGIC) meeting. There were ~100 people in attendance. I asked at the outset for people to raise their hands if ArcGIS was their primary GIS software. About 95 people raised their hands! I then asked who used QGI

07/24/2016

I'm excited to announce my latest QGIS book. Called Discover QGIS, it is the workbook for the award winning GeoAcademy curriculum. It is essentially 5 college courses full of labs! It comes with all the data, challenge exercises and solution files. Great for learning GIS, QGIS or for use in the classroom.

The GeoAcademy is the first ever GIS curriculum based on a national standard—the U.S. Department of Labor’s Geospatial Competency Model—a hierarchical model of the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to work as a GIS professional in today’s marketplace.

Originally written for QGIS v2.4, the GeoAcademy material in this workbook has been updated for use with QGIS v2.14, Inkscape v0.91, and GRASS GIS v7.0.3. This is the most up-to-date version of the GeoAcademy curriculum. To aid in learning, all exercise data includes solution files.

https://www.amazon.com/Discover-Qgis-Kurt-Menke/dp/0989421767/ref=zg_bsnr_10806632011_1

12/23/2015

Discover QGIS coming soon !
https://locatepress.com/dqw

Get your hands on the award winning GeoAcademy exercises in a convenient workbook format. The GeoAcademy is the first ever GIS curriculum based on a national standard—the U.S. Department of Labor’s Geospatial Competency Model—a hierarchical model of the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to wor…

03/30/2015

It's official...Mastering QGIS is now available from both Packt Publishing and Amazon (although Amazon doesn't have the cover image up yet). So exciting!
https://www.packtpub.com/application-develop…/mastering-qgis

03/02/2015

An Augmented Reality Sandbox. What a cool way to teach topography! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki8UXSJmrJE

This was filmed at SUNY Geneseo, Feb, 2014. More info on this technology is here: http://idav.ucdavis.edu/~okreylos/ResDev/SARndbox/

02/23/2015

It's quite a momentous week in the world of FOSS4G. Today the GRASS GIS development team has announced the new stable release of GRASS GIS 7.0.0!

Visit the announcement page to read about it.

http://grass.osgeo.org/news/42/15/GRASS-GIS-7-0-0/

GRASS GIS is a free Geographic Information System (GIS) software used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics/maps production, spatial modeling, and visualization.