sudouestAny #geospatial comrades here on Mastodon? Or some #gischat or similar conversation going on? #GIS #geomatics
Andrea Titolo@mapper Hi! Not much it seems, but hopefully there will be more and more people. In the meantime, nice to see another GIS user around here :) I see you mentioned archaeology in your bio too, nice :)
@whysofurious Yep, I've been working in an Archaeology institute (cluster of labs) for the last two years. Loving it so far! So many different fields, time periods, approaches and methodologies! Mostly working with Prehistorians.
The Ghost of Toots Passed@whysofurious
I do enough GIS to know projections can be a hidden pain in the back side. I've been using MapInfo for 20 years but just started using QGIS professionally in the last 4 or 5 and am really starting to get the hang of it.
I don't post much about GIS, but maybe I should? I can say I don't make pretty maps, I tend to just munge data. At any rate nice to meet both of you!
@mapper
@paulgatling @whysofurious Wow Mapinfo! I started with it 15 years ago. Had the chance to have a very good course and to be kind of efficient with it, but man how unintuitive it was! Powerful but unintuitive :)
Around the same years, I was doodling on my spare time with the first versions of #QGIS, trying to convince my supervisor that we could work with it. He laughed at my face back then but he's teaching it now 🤷🏻♂️😁
#opensource for the win!
#gischat
Around the same years, I was doodling on my spare time with the first versions of #QGIS, trying to convince my supervisor that we could work with it. He laughed at my face back then but he's teaching it now 🤷🏻♂️😁
#opensource for the win!
#gischat
@mapper
I think that sums up MapInfo reasonably! What gets me is how some some parts of it just have not changed and others change but it still just doesn't feel right. Well I do only a very little amount of work with it anymore, usually some basic geospatial sums because I've gotten used to it's query builder but I'd like to take the time to figure that out in QGIS. I just like how easy it is to connect qgis to all sorts of data sources! It certainly forced me to learn projections far better than I had to know them with MapInfo, that's for sure!
I agree, open source for the win for sure, I can run qgis on the work laptop with windows 10, or personal machine with Linux or even OpenBSD! It's awesome!
@whysofurious
@paulgatling @mapper I agree with both :) been using #qgis for the last 5 years as well and it’s awesome to work with, the community it’s also amazing and so many stuff are being done for #archaeology specifically.
I don’t post much about #gis either because for now all the maps I need to do for others are boring archeological distribution maps 😂
I don’t post much about #gis either because for now all the maps I need to do for others are boring archeological distribution maps 😂
@whysofurious
Exactly! Yeah my maps are not exciting either, but I think I might post about some of the more technical things I've worked my way through, usually with some pain.
My most recent venture was rasterizing a huge point data set into geotiff that later gets served by geoserver. That took me quite a while to figure out and if I can help others to not suffer I will!
@mapper
@paulgatling @whysofurious
I'd be quite interested to read that story! Lots of fresh point cloud data appear these days, I've been playing around with some IGN datasets (French Ordnance Survey) but still lack method and experience :)
I'd be quite interested to read that story! Lots of fresh point cloud data appear these days, I've been playing around with some IGN datasets (French Ordnance Survey) but still lack method and experience :)