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weeknotes: week 11

18 March 2023·3 mins

systems thinking Observable cartography QGIS atlases old books OpenStreetMap StreetComplete

Things I got up to in the last week:

published blog post: systems, processes, and tools
read an essay on systems design: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20201227 (via this tweet)
phone link dump, all the way down to zero tabs open…
got stuck into Observable Getting Started guides and the like and…
started playing with my own dataset on powerplants
did more of the Esri Cartography MOOC (running a bit behind, need to catch up!)
discovered, fixed an issue with, and blogged about QGIS MapSwipe Tool Plugin
published blog post: Spilhaus World Ocean Map
started drafting up a new About page for my website (I’ve just had placeholder text there for a few years now…)
started shopping for proper storage for my atlases and maps collection
signed up for OpenStreetMap!

And some more words about a few of those…

Spilhaus World Ocean Map

17 March 2023·1 min

cartography Spilhaus ArcGIS

As part of the Esri Cartography MOOC I’m doing just now, I made this Spilhaus World Ocean Map in one of the exercises.

QGIS Plugin: MapSwipe Tool

15 March 2023·4 mins

QGIS ArcGIS swipe tool python PyQGIS linux

I’ve been using ArcGIS for the first time in the last couple of weeks and I’ve come across the Swipe tool. My immediate thought was “oh that’s awesome” which was swiftly followed by “I wonder if QGIS has this as well?”

systems, processes, and tools

12 March 2023·2 mins

systems thinking systems processes tools

What are systems, processes, and tools?

weeknotes: week 10

11 March 2023·4 mins

ArcGIS cartography Observable dataviz Hugo CSS flexbox web design Obsidian reMarkable

Things I’ve gotten up to since my last weeknotes:

continued the Esri Cartography MOOC
started the Data Visualization Fundamentals and Best Practices from Observable
tinkered with my website: playing with flex to tweak the layout
tinkered with my website: created a shortcode for images that are drawings
fixed the obsidian-remarkable plugin’s post-processing script

A few more words about each of those…

$ ./osgav.run

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weeknotes: week 11

Spilhaus World Ocean Map

QGIS Plugin: MapSwipe Tool

systems, processes, and tools

weeknotes: week 10

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