By way of tidying up a thread that was left dangling when I took my little blog sabbatical last year, this is the concluding installment of my development of a map of Alaska in QGIS. By the end of my last post on this topic, I’d added roads, railways and settlements to my map. To …

Last time, I finished working on my Alaska map with political boundaries and shading in place, and the major rivers and lakes depicted. This time, I’m going to use some more Natural Earth data to add more information to the map. The first thing I want is some towns and villages, so I download the …

Last time, I described how I used free Natural Earth data and the software package QGIS to produce a basic map of Alaska and its surroundings, shown above. This time, I’m going to lay some more vector datasets on top of this map to make it a little more useful. First, I want to add …

A while ago, I wrote about my experience using Ordnance Survey data to generate maps of the UK using the free and open-source Geographical Information System package QGIS 3. At that time I was using the then-current Long-Term Release, QGIS 3.4. Things have moved on, though, and this report uses the current QGIS LTR, version …

There are some things I hate about "in-flight" models of piston-engine aircraft. One is when the aircraft appear to be flying without a pilot; the other is a stationary propeller. Modellers have a couple of ways of dealing with this second problem. One is to simply remove the propeller blades, leaving only the filled and smoothed spinner visible—it's a well-recognized technique ...