PyQGIS

• my brother’s flat hunt is thoroughly complete now as i helped him move into his new place last week! he was indeed pleased with it, which pleased me, and the rest of the family too. crisis averted, phew!
• i finished the PyQGISChallenge! mostly! i’m about half way through putting together a toy plugin as the mini project for the last couple of days. i’ll post about that specifically once its done.
• and i sorted the last bit of OS upgrade aftermath, which was sorting out my geolab database again. this involved an excursion into the land of containers, which i haven’t visited for a while, to extract my postgres 13 database for loading into my new postgres 15 database. now everything is pretty much as it was a few weeks ago. jolly good!

• the flat hunt is complete! woohoo! next stop, moving day
• so very glad the flat viewings will cease. there were fun days, but also tiring days. i’m really happy with the flat my brother will be moving into, it will suit him down to the ground
• saw Death From Above 1979 in Glasgow last week and it was damn good – the 20 year anniversary of You’re a Woman, I’m a Machine so they just played the album start to finish, and then some new tunes i’m less familiar with afterwards
• had some dinner at Buck’s Bar before the gig and was defeated, in the sense i had to use a knife and fork to consume the burger, i felt shame, very tasty though
• started the PyQGISChallenge from Spatial Thoughts – the same idea as 30DaysOfQGIS in May, but this time going through the PyQGIS course materials

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?”

I am exploring the world of Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

I have been reading the Gentle Introduction to GIS from the QGIS documentation and also working through the QGIS Training Manual. In the last couple of weeks I completed the first assignment.