Start a project Start a new project via menu or via the welcome screen. Under Project Properties you can select the correct projection and base coordinate system (see above).
Project Structure In order to maintain some clear structure, it is usefull to first start with some planning what you want to map. In the layer window, create some layer groups where you group your different topics. For my project I created the following groups:
QGIS QGIS is an open source geo-information system, which is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. It is an extremely powerful tool, but for the amount of functions it is relatively easy to learn. There are lots of tutorials available on YouTube, a german one which is quite good is from the University in Weihenstephan, https://www.youtube.com/@diabektriesdorf6769
There are also various communities around QGIS, and some conferences which have video material online as well as in person events.
This write-up series is just a collection of random information on geodata in the context of operating a heritage railway line. The author is not a professional in any relevant area, therefore any information should be taken with a grain of salt. If you need have dependable and legally compliant geographical information, please talk to a professional.
In the context of heritage railways there are a lot of use cases for geodata, data which is related to geographical context.
Cory Doctorow created the term Enshittification for the current trend to make things worse on the web. Unfortunately, it’s not limited to the internet, it has entered the brains of everybody and everything is getting shit. Worse even, everybody notices it, everybody participates in it and everybody gets unhappy. It’s a downward spiral, dumbing the world down.
Two stories from the last weeks:
Parking I took somebody to the airport in Nuremberg.
This is a test post if the RSS feed and the RSS Parrot for Mastodon work… If it works, you can follow this blog on Mastodon via @nils.mipi.de@rss-parrot.net
I have been off work with burnout symptoms. Getting some distance from the daily madness made me think a lot of what I want to achieve in live, what I want from work, and what could I change to not run into a burnout again. I haven’t found a conclusion yet… One thing I want to try is to write regularly. So this page might get a bit more active.
It’s becoming something like a tradition to visit the “Erlebnis Modellbahn” model railway fair in Dresden at the beginning of February. The show is one of the biggest ones organized by a local model railway club.