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Simon Polster Feb 19, 2024

Hey look, Adobe: you can change the interface language of an app without having to uninstall and reinstall it! 🤯 #inkscape

Simon Polster Dec 28, 2023

Love this flowy transit chart from the Baden-Württemberg train network #MapsintheWild

Simon Polster Dec 21, 2023

Contours in flat terrain are often very jagged for detailed DEMs.

To have smooth contours in flat terrain while preserving the details in the slopes I create a stronger filtered DEM, clip this with a slope mask and then merge it with the original DEM. #gischat #qgis #mapping

Simon Polster Nov 27, 2023

I just finished the maps for the first 22 trailhead information boards for the new Armenian National Trail 😊 . The ANT logo is very colorful & playful and I tried to reflect that in the map design #qgis #inkscape #armenia #hiking #OpenStreetMap

Simon Polster Sep 25, 2023

A very cool (bad pun alert!) map for a hot Berlin summer day.
it is remarkable how much information is packed into the map while keeping it easy to read:
- wind
- temperature
- shadows
- "summer" amenities (only ice cream parlors and spätis are missing 😉 )
https://erfrischungskarte.odis-berlin.de
#gischat #berlin

Simon Polster Aug 24, 2023

I reproject DEMs for terrain shading just seldom enough to reliably forget to change the resampling method to cubic #gischat #qgis

Simon Polster Aug 15, 2023

My latest trailhead map, will be installed at Debed Canyon, Armenia. Played around with alternating dashes for overlapping trail types. #qgis #gischat

Simon Polster Aug 15, 2023

the biggest bug for me in

#qgis (not being able to export correctly when blend modes & masks are enabled) might be getting some attention: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/50526 🤞🤞

Layer blending mode reset on export for all file types · Issue #50526 · qgis/QGIS

What is the bug or the crash? When exporting files with multiple overlayed rasters, upon export all of the layers are exported as if the blending more was set to 'Normal' Expected (preiview) is on ...

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Simon Polster Aug 10, 2023

Tha map board with my overview map of the transcaucasian trail has been installed at Lake Arpa, Armenia 😊 #gischat #mapsinthewild

Simon Polster Aug 9, 2023

My very first time getting interviewed as a map maker 🫣. Evan Applegate and I talk on his podcast "very expensive maps" about creating maps in #qgis, #OpenStreetMap editing and the Caucasus. #gischat
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0oLdHEpzFpHYuB9YFhAuCm?si=lcgoNOvxRYqd-O8iWjjOOQ

Simon Polster: “I was hitchhiking from Iran to Berlin and spent quite a long time in the Caucasus.”

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