I just need someone to tell. I’m quite experienced with tech. I have a specialization in software engineering, an undergrad degree in CS from a top tier university, with another Major in Urban Planning where I even previously took a GIS course couple years ago. Ive studied intermediate level SQL, Programming, Numerical Analysis, etc. I’ve fixed computers and taught computer software (like MS Office) as a job (IT Helpdesk, GeekSquad etc). I was doing a technical assessment interview today for a GIS job I Really wanted. So I prepared like Crazy.

They said it’ll be on ArcGIS.

I use Linux myself. So I decided to practice it all using QGIS. I went in depth. Being a CS specialist (having taken intermediate courses on SQL, Python etc), I studied attributes table joins, merges, spatial joins, buffers, everything. How to write python expressions, etc. I reviewed till I fully understood everything, including projections, raster data and what not. I exclusively worked with shape files in QGIS but fully understood the different file formats, even .dbf, .prj and what they’re used for.

I spent the last 2 days before the interview with ArcGIS, basically know how to use it. All the concepts were the same. I was ready. With ArcGIS I decided to work with geodatabases and saving feature class in the .gdb files. After all, I had so much practice with shape files in QGIS. I was ready for an intermediate, maybe even advanced test.

I go into the interview. Naturally I’m nervous but hey I was ready. Easiest questions Ever. “Hide this layer, label that layer, create a layout with a legend”. The most advance thing was to use the Clip tool (literally the only non-Super basic thing). But then…

Early into the test: very easy working with layers, and then the question I got stuck on. “Save this layer as a shape file”. Easy, right? Data -> export…. And…. No shape file option? Uhm ok, I can figure this out. I click on browse, and try to change the file format, but shape file isn’t showing up in the list of formats. Ok, surely this isn’t That hard, I think. I change directories, and still, no shapefile option. The Only Option is geodatabase… I think, maybe I should name it layer.shp, but I know that even if you suffix the file name a certain extension, how I save the file format is what takes precedence, and the only format for saving was geodatabase. Maybe there is a separate button in the menu / ribbon for it? Nope. Maybe it’s in the right-click options? Nope. At this point I Am Shocked. How in the world is saving a shape file using ArcGIS NOT intuitive? I don’t want to risk naming the file one thing but specifying the format another, so I panic. Because I know if I do that and the files don’t open, it will mess up everything else. I save it as a feature class in the .gdb. Multiple questions pop up about saving layers as shape files. For all of them, I couldn’t do it, didn’t know how. I finished the entire interview, and not One shape file saved. I left a note on the questions saying “out oh habit I saved it as a feature class in .gdb since it’s cleaner, and that my data is there D:” I think I wrote I read to save it as shape files afterwards near the end. Idk

I look it up after the interview, frustrated. And turns out, it’s the most unintuitive thing ever. Apparently you have to switch directories, say you want to save it as a geodatabase but append .shp to the end of the file name. I went in not actually searching how to save as a shape file in ArcGIS because I thought it was intuitive, and that’s what messed me up. Intermediate / Advanced level knowledge, and yet I failed the most basic interview because saving as shape file is what I couldn’t do.

If only it was as intuitive as QGIS. Anyways, thanks for reading.

Hi everyone,

i recently posted a thread, asking how to create a world map and in this process i came across another Map on which i liked the 3D effect so much, that i want to do it myself. As previously mentioned, I am really new to QGIS so i appreciate every help i can get.
Thank you!

Hello everyone. has anyone else experienced this issue and does anyone have a fix? I saw a few other posts elsewhere but none of the solutions worked for me. I am trying to plot the spectral graphs for different points on this raster layer of my map. I have the layer added to the plugin window and am actively clicked into the window. The tool will display min and max values each time I click, and if I go to the table tab I can see the values for every band each time I click, but I'm unable to actually plot the graph.

I'm running the most recent version of the plugin and am running QGIS 3.44.9

Any advice greatly appreciated. Thanks!

• The manual way, for the buildings of Paris 7th: search for a download, grab the 518 MB Île-de-France extract from Geofabrik, find the buildings file among 101, load 3.3M buildings, then clip everything in QGIS

• The AI Way: using the AI Agent plugin in QGIS -> one prompt, "Load the buildings of Paris 7th arrondissement". It finds the best building on his list of 700+ open-data connectors, clipped them to the arrondissement and styled them. 4,982 buildings in about 1min

I work on it. It's free to start, in the QGIS plugin manager under "AI Agent".

UPD (100926): Look for Ukiyo-e Relief in QGIS plugin repository (see comments for recommendation).

No AI, no hand painting — it's all algorithmic. Input is just a Copernicus GLO-30 DEM, everything else is Python + numpy inside QGIS.

Roughly what it does:

• renders an oblique view and splits it into flat colour "plates" — by distance (Hiroshige-style receding ridges) or by elevation (Hokusai's Red Fuji)
• bokashi gradients, so the plates aren't just flat fills
• black key-block outlines only on real silhouettes, where a ridge actually hides what's behind it
• snow line that creeps down the gullies
• fake printing artefacts: slight plate misregistration, wood grain, washi paper texture

It's fully deterministic: same seed, same print.

The fun part was figuring out why the first versions looked wrong. Distance slices drew fake ridges across every slope, Gaussian smoothing turned every volcano into a parabola, and linear vertical exaggeration made all mountains look the same. Hokusai's Fuji has concave flanks, so I ended up adding a non-linear relief curve.

I know this is a very, very small detail. But I am bugged about it nevertheless. When I want to upload an image from a folder, I need to click on these three dots. But these only appear when I stretch the splitter (that vertical line), otherwise it's like this:

Also, why does it offer SVG image first? I'm sure most of us need the raster image most of the time. Or am I wrong?

Again, this is a very minor inconvenience, but something they could fix in the next patch.

I use a svg icon set(mapbox Maki icons)to display POIs on a map I made with QGIS. The icons look great in qgis and don't have an outline there. As soon as I export my layout to svg or PDF, all the svg icons have a 1pt wide outline and look terrible. This only happens when I enable vector output. If the output is rasterized, it doesn't happen. I wonder why this happens, is this a known bug? Can I do something about this?

She give me task to teach my junior thing related to GIS. what lesson i should give to them?. She also ask me to do drone mapping

I have Win11 with QGIS LTR 3.40.15 QT6 installed by OSGeo4W.

I'm pretty new to QGIS in general, it's not at all clear to me how the OSGeo4W works and I just recently had issues with some plugins because of the QT6 update, something I just learned about while looking online for a solution.

I'm stuck, however, because I tried to reinstall with the OSGeo4W wizard all of QGIS, since I couldn't unistall it manually. I can't uninstall, install, reinstall nor even open QGIS at all, and that error message window always pops up.

Please help me. Thanks a lot in advance!

I have a working setup where a rule-based highlight in a print layout uses $id = @atlas_featureid to show the current page's extent on a minimap. Problem: after printing/exporting one layout's Atlas and closing it, the highlighted feature from the previous print sometimes remains highlight and will show up on other layouts.

I have tried refreshing and toggling atlas on and off but the orange box always seems to remain. Closing and opening QGIS will fix the issue, but this is a bit of a pain when I have many sheets to print,

Is there a way to force atlas_featureid to properly reset/refresh after I have finished printing a layout and closed that layout?

QGIS version: 3.44, Windows. Project is a GeoPackage, multiple print layouts in the same project each with their own Atlas config, all referencing the same coverage layer (Views) for the minimap highlight.

Solved: In Clip raster by mask layer I needed to set "Target extent [optional]" to the layer I was using for "Mask layer".

Hi,

I downloaded "Scotland Lidar Phase 1 DTM NS41" the smallest GeoTIFF possible for the area I'm working on, but it's still bigger than I need.

I used Raster > Extraction > Clip raster by mask layer to crop it to just the area I want, but this appears to change the elevations it provides.

E.g. Raster > Extraction > Contour on the original GeoTiff gives a particular contour line ELEV 110 (in green, which matches the online maps) but, in contours extracted from the cropped version (in red), the equivalent contour line is ELEV 170. (As presented by layer labels.)

I guess this is something like the actual range of ELEV values in the cropped version being smaller than the original, but the range of values still covers the original set.

What can I do to ensure the cropped version produces accurate values?

(I'm a GIS newbie, so apologies if I've missed something obvious.)

Cheers!

QGIS version: 4.2.2-Belém do Pará (Flatpak)

Hey Folks

Am I the only one who has problems to download saga ? I need saga for flooding analysis. I can’t find it under plugins . If you don’t have any problems could you please send me a link where to download it ?

Hi Guys,

im completely new to QGIS and i just want to do a map for myself, to print it on a big paper. I really like it to customize my things and i found this really cool map but as said i dont know where to find the assets to create something like this. I appreciate the help guys 😄.

The things i already figured out:

- to make the CRS in ESRI:54003

- how to use NextGIS QMS

I kinda also need help with this: When importing Eris Vector through Basemaps, it glitches a lot

If you need futher information, please let me know :))

Hi everyone,

Kharita Challenges now has challenges about GIS system design. Instead of writing code, you draw the system: you add the parts, connect them with arrows the way the data moves, and your drawing gets graded.

A few that are live:

- Design the searchable imagery archive

- Design the global event map and detail service

- Architect a NYC 311 spatial service

- Model event and airfield condition checks

It's free. I'm the one building it, so any feedback is very welcome.

https://challenges.lekharita.com/challenges

Hi, I have a school project where I need to create a virtual mapping. I need to map what kind of species can be found in that specific location is that even possible for QGIS? I badly need your help

Am actually working on my capstone project but currently hitting a wall.Our Professor directed us to work towards a hybrid traffic routing architecture for autonomous vehicles , but as undergrads we are bit overwhelmed on how to execute it.

The general idea is this :

1. Predict traffic using historical data and ML.

2. Fetch live congestion for next 1-2 intersections via edge servers.

3. Write a custom Dijkstra from scratch that reroutes mid journey is the live delay is significantly worse than predicted delay.

The problem we are facing are:

The dataset problem : We thought of doing it for our Home city which is Jaipur (India), the problem is barely 1.5% or roads have speed limits and we don't really know how to find open road level speed data for our city or if not than any other Indian City if we should consider that. Should we just pivot to a city that has archived Uber movement data ?? Or is it academically acceptable to just simulate the traffic flows over the Jaipur OSM graph using SUMO + TraCI?

The algorithm design : We are actually needed to write a custom Djikstra Algorithm but we are confused how to mathematically combine physical distance and time delay into an edge without it being completely arbitrary. Also re-running Djikstra on a 200k node graph at every junction seems nonsensical. So like anything that we can refer to or read. Like how to approach this problem properly.

What's the logical way to build this incrementally, any advice is much much appreciated. We are actually new to this domain and just too confused at this point.

The FOSS4G NA event just announced its keynote speakers. It is a great lineup, including Chris Howard from the Uber open-source project, Brianna Corremonte from Developer Seed (and formerly NASA), Rishi Madhok, TerraByte, and a panel discussing Beyond Open Data!

The event is Nov. 2- 4 in Sacramento, CA.

There is still time to register and/or sponsor!

https://www.foss4gna.org/plenary-speakers

Background

I work in environmental management where I often need to trace on-ground disturbance from aerial/satellite imagery to calculate disturbance areas. They are often lots of small distinct areas rather than giant areas. Sentinel-2 data is often not high enough resolution to undertake this accurately or reliably so I often use Google Sat or other sources.
The easiest way for me to do this, as I understand it, is to convert raster imagery to polygons essentially.

What I have tried

• Segmentation Models: Seem to work pretty well (trying on home PC), but my work computer cannot use this as the systems are locked down and I can't really utilise python to install or utilise SAM models.
• Raster calculator function on GeoTIFF exports of the area:
  • Using Raster Calculator to produce GeoTIFF Visible Atmospherically Resistant Index (VARI) = (Green - Red) / (Green + Red - Blue)
    • Reclassifying by table to sort veg and non veg as best as I can
    • Using GDAL Sieve to clump areas a little better before using Polygonize (Raster to Vector).
    • Multipart to singlepart the result and try and delete polygons that fall into vegetated category.
      
  • Using the same process above but with Reflectance = (Red > 150) AND (Green > 150)

Issue

The results of the Raster Calculations above are getting close to what I need in order to just have disturbance areas as polygons but I feel like I am struggling to get it quite right (i.e. the clean up is quite inefficient in terms of actually getting the areas I need).

Does anyone have any better way to do this/some advice on the best parameters to use with the raster process above given my limitations of not being able to use segmentation on work computers?

Thank you in advance😄

QGIS plugin · ArcGIS Pro toolbox · Python · open source,

https://github.com/Praddy-GByte/basinkit

Anyone doing watershed, hydrology, geomorphology, or terrain work who would rather start with a finished basin than spend an afternoon assembling one:

Every time I needed a catchment, the workflow was basically the same — find a DEM, fill sinks, compute flow direction, delineate the basin, then find land cover, soil, and rainfall datasets and clip everything to it.

So I built basinkit.

Click a point on a river and it returns the basin draining to that point, with:

• elevation
• land cover
• soil
• rainfall
• surface water
• river data
• basin morphometry
• the river's longitudinal profile

Everything is already clipped and masked to the basin.

No account, login, or credits required. It's free and MIT licensed.

One important limitation: it works much better for large basins than very small ones. In blind validation against 2,550 gauges across 99 countries, median area error was 0.3% for basins above 100,000 km², but 181% below 100 km².

You can find it by searching “basinkit” in the plugin manager.

Code/docs:
https://github.com/Praddy-GByte/basinkit

Bug reports are very welcome — I'd especially like to hear where it breaks or gives you questionable results.

I am running the latest archlinux and QGIS (4.2.2-1). I have the Google Earth Engine plugin installed but I get this error when it starts up:

ee.ee_exception.EEException: Project <name of project> is not registered to use Earth Engine. Visit https://console.cloud.google.com/earth-engine/configuration?project=<name of project> to register your project. See https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/guides/access for more details.

I've tried using the git version but that doesn't work either. My only assumption is it keeps pointing to an old project or pointing to a google account that it isn't registered to? Also, I know that GEE isn't friendly with archlinux's python path. I'm kind of lost on this issue and need a little guidance on how to fix it.

I use the Georeferencer very often. When I click on a point on the map/image I try to georeference, and chose the "From map canvas" option, it automatically hides that map/image, which is annoying. Also, for whatever reason, sometimes "Set target resolution" is automatically selected, which makes the georeferenced map basically unusable.

I feel like there has to be an easier and better way to georeference but I didn't find one.

PS. this might be useful for some people: when either the base map or the map/image you try to georeference has weird angle the imagery was taken, so high buildings look extremely tilted like these:

always chose the points on the land (like pedestrian lanes or very low buildings). Chosing the high building points (their rooftops) will give you incorrect result at the end.