Post Archive – GISforThought

2025 (5)

07/24/2025 All-Ireland Last Win Mapped by County (All, Ireland, Maps)
06/11/2025 The Great Wall of China – Hiking from Jiankou to Mutianyu (All, Travel)
06/09/2025 The Rock Men of Murren, Fanad, Donegal (All, Ireland, Maps, Travel)
05/27/2025 Irish Rural Road Speed Changes (All, Ireland, Leaflet, Maps, OSGEO)
02/07/2025 Storm Éowyn Impact (All, Animations, Featured, Ireland, Maps)

2022 (7)

09/20/2022 My Strava Activities from the Same Place at the Same Time Animated (All, Animations, Maps, OSGEO, PostGIS, QGIS, Tutorials)
08/22/2022 Luas Map Compared to Real Geography (All, Animations, Featured, Ireland)
08/09/2022 Scotland’s Cartographic Outline (All, Animations, Scotland)
08/08/2022 Made With OpenStreetMap (All, Animations, OpenStreetMap)
07/21/2022 Featured Posts (All)
01/19/2022 Commuting in Ireland Mapped (All, Ireland, Maps, OSGEO, QGIS)
01/15/2022 Dublin Neighborhoods Mapped (All, Featured, Ireland, Maps, OSGEO, PostGIS, QGIS)

2021 (1)

11/30/2021 30 Day Map Challenge 2021 (30 Day Map Challenge, All, Featured, Ireland, Maps, OpenStreetMap, OSGEO, QGIS, Scotland)

2020 (2)

02/24/2020 30 Day Map Challenge 2019 (30 Day Map Challenge, All, Featured, Ireland, Maps)
02/17/2020 Ireland 2020 General Election HEX Maps (All, Ireland, Maps)

2019 (5)

04/09/2019 John Snow Pub (All, Travel)
03/05/2019 Every Person in Great Britain Mapped (All, Featured, Ireland, Maps, OSGEO, PostGIS, QGIS, Scotland)
02/19/2019 Struve Geodetic Arc (All, Finland, Travel)
01/29/2019 Mapping Strava Data (All, Maps, OSGEO, QGIS, Tutorials)
01/24/2019 OpenStreetMap Ireland 2018 Visualized (All, Animations, Ireland, Maps, OpenStreetMap, OSGEO)

2018 (11)

12/04/2018 Copying Rasters in PostGIS (All, OSGEO, PostGIS, QGIS)
08/01/2018 Anaconda install with OSGeo4W (All, OSGEO)
07/26/2018 Ireland and Dublin Street Orientations (All, Ireland)
07/18/2018 Stanley Cup Champions Since 1915 (All, Animations, Maps)
06/20/2018 QGIS OpenStreetMap Scales (All, OpenStreetMap, OSGEO, QGIS)
06/13/2018 GAA Winners 1887 to 2017 GIFs (All, Animations, Ireland)
06/06/2018 Creating OpenStreetMap History Visualisations (All, Ireland, OpenStreetMap, OSGEO, PostGIS, QGIS, Tutorials)
05/30/2018 History of OpenStreetMap in Ireland (All, Animations, Ireland, Maps, OpenStreetMap)
03/21/2018 QGIS Select Within Plugin 0.4 (All, OSGEO, QGIS)
02/08/2018 QGIS Multi Ring Buffer Plugin Version 1 (All, OSGEO, QGIS)
01/24/2018 Updating A Plugin From QGIS 2 to QGIS 3 (All, OSGEO, QGIS)

2017 (4)

12/06/2017 Finland 100 with 90 years of Finnish hockey (All, Animations, Finland, Maps)
11/20/2017 UK Postcode Breakdown RegEX (All, OSGEO, QGIS)
10/26/2017 #Ireland 2023 (All, Ireland)
09/06/2017 Storm Harvey QGIS Geometry Generator (All, Animations, Featured, OSGEO, QGIS, Tutorials)

2016 (8)

10/20/2016 Crowdsourced City Extents (All, Scotland)
06/20/2016 Glasgow Regions Mapped – Progress Update 1 (All, Maps, Scotland)
03/07/2016 Mapping an Integer (All, Maps)
02/29/2016 Every Person in Scotland on the Map (All, Maps, OSGEO, QGIS, Scotland)
02/22/2016 Forth Road Bridge Closure Impact on Drive Times (All, Maps, Scotland)
02/15/2016 Highlighting Selections in QGIS (All, OSGEO, QGIS)
02/01/2016 Mapping Google Location Data (All, OSGEO, QGIS, Tutorials)
01/26/2016 Mapping Glasgow Districts (All, Scotland)

2015 (13)

11/23/2015 The Great Polish Map of Scotland Revisited (All, Scotland, Travel)
11/16/2015 Adventures of a Duck (All, Animations, Leaflet, Maps, OSGEO, Travel)
11/09/2015 Self Hosted Leaflet Photo (All, Leaflet, OSGEO)
11/02/2015 GIS to CAD using ogr2ogr – Part 3 – Point Annotation to Text in CAD (All, OSGEO, Tutorials)
10/26/2015 GIS to CAD using ogr2ogr – Part 2 – GML to DXF with OS MasterMap (All, OSGEO, QGIS, Tutorials)
10/19/2015 GIS to CAD using ogr2ogr – Part 1 – Shp to DXF with Contour Data (All, OSGEO, QGIS, Tutorials)
10/02/2015 UK Rail Network by Agency and Parent (All, Leaflet, OSGEO)
08/26/2015 UK Postcode Format Breakdown (All)
08/10/2015 Setting up your GDAL and OGR Environmental Variables (All, Tutorials)
07/22/2015 Multi Ring Buffer – Buffer the Buffer or Incrementally Increasing Distance? (All, OSGEO, PostGIS, QGIS, Scotland)
06/02/2015 Schiehallion – Contour lines and Maskelyne’s observatory (All, Featured, Scotland, Travel)
05/18/2015 UK General Election Results (All)
05/08/2015 3D Printed Scale Model of London (All)

2014 (44)

12/29/2014 FOSS4G Seoul – Direct Flights (All)
12/19/2014 X Percent of the Population of Scotland Lives Within Y Miles of Edinburgh (All, Scotland)
11/30/2014 Mapvember 2014 (All, Mapvember, OSGEO, PostGIS, QGIS, Scotland)
11/29/2014 New Zealand Flights (All, Mapvember)
11/28/2014 Global Flights Connections (All, Mapvember)
11/27/2014 Clipping Datasets to the Dateline in ogr2ogr (All, Mapvember, OSGEO, QGIS)
11/26/2014 Great Circle Flight Lines in PostGIS (All, Mapvember, OSGEO, PostGIS, QGIS)
11/25/2014 Helsinki Airport the Gateway to the East (All, Finland, Mapvember)
11/24/2014 Population of Scotland Mapped (All, Mapvember, OSGEO, PostGIS, Scotland)
11/23/2014 Scotland Azimuth Orthographic Projection (All, Mapvember, OSGEO, QGIS, Scotland)
11/22/2014 Scotland Gender Split (All, Mapvember, Scotland)
11/21/2014 X Percent of the Population of Scotland Lives Within Y Miles of Glasgow (All, Mapvember, Scotland)
11/20/2014 UK Postcode Polygon Accuracy Comparison Part 2 (All, Mapvember, Scotland)
11/19/2014 GIS DAY – Post your Workstation (All, Mapvember)
11/18/2014 UK Postcode Polygon Accuracy Comparison (All, Mapvember, Scotland)
11/17/2014 Centroid Within Selection in QGIS (All, Mapvember, OSGEO, PostGIS, QGIS)
11/16/2014 Open UK Postcode Polygons (All, Mapvember, Scotland)
11/15/2014 Glasgow CAG High Density Areas (All, Mapvember, OSGEO, QGIS, Scotland)
11/14/2014 Polygon Outlines in QGIS (All, Mapvember, OSGEO, QGIS)
11/13/2014 London Bus Route Density (All, Mapvember, OSGEO, QGIS)
11/12/2014 Glasgow 3D Residential Property Density QGIS2threejs (All, Mapvember, OSGEO, QGIS, Scotland)
11/11/2014 Glasgow Residential Property Density (All, Mapvember, Scotland)
11/10/2014 Glasgow Commercial Property Density (All, Mapvember, Scotland)
11/09/2014 Glasgow Corporate Address Gazetteer Property Classifications (All, Mapvember, Scotland)
11/08/2014 New One Pound (All, Mapvember)
11/07/2014 London Bus Route Maps (All, Mapvember, OSGEO, QGIS)
11/06/2014 Glasgow Subcrawl Map (All, Mapvember, OSGEO, QGIS, Scotland)
11/05/2014 QGIS Inverse Shapeburst Fills (All, Mapvember, OSGEO, QGIS)
11/04/2014 Trans Siberian Leaflet (All, Leaflet, Mapvember, OSGEO)
11/03/2014 Trans Siberian GeoJson on GitHub (All, Mapvember)
11/02/2014 Mapping With WMS – SNH – John Muir Way (All, Mapvember, OSGEO, QGIS, Scotland)
11/01/2014 Scottish Independence Referendum 2014 – Cartogram (All, Mapvember, OSGEO, QGIS)
09/23/2014 Scottish Independence Referendum 2014, Election Maps in QGIS (All, OSGEO, QGIS, Scotland)
07/07/2014 Visiting the Great Polish Map of Scotland (All, Scotland, Travel)
04/10/2014 UK Rail Network Visualized by Operator (All)
04/07/2014 Public Transport Connections Between Scotland and the Rest of the UK (All, Scotland)
04/03/2014 Scotland’s Connections to the Wider World (All, OSGEO, PostGIS, Scotland)
03/24/2014 Scotland’s Changing Outline (All, OSGEO, QGIS, Scotland)
03/10/2014 Historic Maps of Scotland from Blaeu to Dorret (1600-1700) (All, Scotland)
03/03/2014 Loading CSV XY Data into PostGIS, with Code-Point Open (All, OSGEO, PostGIS, QGIS)
02/26/2014 Downloading OS OpenData (GIS) in Bulk (All, OSGEO, PostGIS, QGIS)
02/17/2014 Georeferencing vector data using QGIS and ogr2ogr (All, OSGEO, QGIS, Tutorials)
02/11/2014 Loading Natural Earth data to PostGIS PostgreSQL (All, OSGEO, PostGIS, Tutorials)
02/04/2014 Setting up PostgreSQL and PostGIS on Linux Mint (All, OSGEO, PostGIS, Tutorials)