tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31470068912122589082024-03-18T11:03:49.974+08:00MY QGIS MALAYSIAAbbas AWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16258480446911971324noreply@blogger.comBlogger225125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147006891212258908.post-22001211136940857402019-11-13T18:10:00.010+08:002022-01-30T10:56:54.087+08:00THE END<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on">
Since I pensioned in 2015, I hardly ventured into QGIS because of my personal obligations and commitments, furthermore, I noticed my services in this specialized field were not required anymore both from the public and private sector.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on">I still do update myself on QGIS once-in-a-while like I am now aware Quantum GIS is now officially called "QGIS". They also changed their logo to a more attractive modern design, the number of QGIS plugins has much increased and they have made newer release more user-friendly than before.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on">I also note Open Source Software has developed rapidly over the recent years as it is being more exposed and is becoming more popular as potential users become more open and welcoming. Even I migrated from my favourite Ubuntu to Linux Mint as my main desktop operating system whilst I use a dual boot OS system. (Wifey still requires Windows for her work).</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on"><b>UPDATE:</b></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi_dtGCwz_zOmxp70lZjFgmvRCB4Wi7-uMciFa8Vin9OGBtxAlYGT8wSBiQojkIz1fLCsT4kAmMCn0DCE2CciHECSaTiGBHvl-NmwPkOghGMlmwGiZNrFdf1qvcQZzpF-wkq5nS4zmI_1ubxZ8MxWJbX7sh4pohN5zpJ7zoCA6fHfjEK6ibYwdcg6FV=s1800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1440" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi_dtGCwz_zOmxp70lZjFgmvRCB4Wi7-uMciFa8Vin9OGBtxAlYGT8wSBiQojkIz1fLCsT4kAmMCn0DCE2CciHECSaTiGBHvl-NmwPkOghGMlmwGiZNrFdf1qvcQZzpF-wkq5nS4zmI_1ubxZ8MxWJbX7sh4pohN5zpJ7zoCA6fHfjEK6ibYwdcg6FV=s320" width="256" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhmXjhYGZ7z-2MFsvrSRNt1_aBDvlfvqZB4_CsJEhenGV-TraHmUeHYQhTBwxkmoXM1c_v6CFlY0194Bbnk2FCeE86-2qvcA5coKYMpDRU0hc7wU4gCZiqciPETDbB8PdSyKM3eMHGvh9CrvbIk2UDZ3FZyx9NbYDvZkFJB0WaONSoEF3S_XQvlKL2G=s1800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1440" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhmXjhYGZ7z-2MFsvrSRNt1_aBDvlfvqZB4_CsJEhenGV-TraHmUeHYQhTBwxkmoXM1c_v6CFlY0194Bbnk2FCeE86-2qvcA5coKYMpDRU0hc7wU4gCZiqciPETDbB8PdSyKM3eMHGvh9CrvbIk2UDZ3FZyx9NbYDvZkFJB0WaONSoEF3S_XQvlKL2G=s320" width="256" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">7 years after I pensioned, in January 2022, I received the above half-an-inch A4 document from my old department which it too had rebranded itself as "PLANMalaysia". In commemoration of its 100th year existence in November 2021, that document which highlights the department's figureheads over the past 100 years was initiated. It contains 2 sections: firstly, the 13 Director-Generals who had and still serve the department until today, secondly, 9 selected figureheads which had shaped development of town planning in their respective interest, of which I was surprised but greatly honored to be one of them where I was officially endorsed by the department as the "Pioneer in the use of Open Source Software". Sometimes, one only gets to see what destiny holds after one has retired from government service. Ah well, another feather to my cap.</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on"><br /></div>
Abbas AWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16258480446911971324noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147006891212258908.post-31993582791461197832017-01-02T00:00:00.000+08:002017-02-14T06:52:21.777+08:00Que Sera Sera...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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For the record, I retired in March 2015 and am taking it easy. As days go by, it appears my services are not required so I concentrate on my family and health as health is wealth. Along the way, while spring cleaning my Google Drive, I accidentally deleted many images which were linked to my blogspots. I've been too lazy to update them, furthermore some were originals and I do not have backups. Just be thankful the rest is there. Best of luck.</div>
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Monde Geospatial at their <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MondeGeospatial/">FB site</a> just announced that is it "QGIS". As this is from an independent party and not from me, I am so thrilled to read this news. Alhamduillah, Allah has guided me in selecting QGIS to promote to the Malaysian public sector. I am at peace with myself that what I championed for all this while was right all along.</div>
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Abbas AWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16258480446911971324noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147006891212258908.post-26170640154802685412015-08-26T00:00:00.000+08:002015-08-26T10:58:34.238+08:00Raster Clipper and Raster Contour<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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For one who hardly ventures into raster GIS, I gave QGIS raster tools a try. I downloaded a natural earth file then panned over to Malaysia and zoomed-in farther. Raster data is heavy so it is wise to clip unnecessary area away and using the the Clipper, it worked fined then for the heck of it, I tried the Contour and even that worked out fine. I must say, QGIS is very user-friendly here but I must admit one has to use some common sense to choose the appropriate places to click and get results. I also found it easiest to increase the number of contour lines simply by reducing the number of intervals say shown below from 10m to 5m to 1m though it can get to be a bit jagged when the contour points are too far apart as shown by the 1m intervals.</div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">This represents the last QGIS training whilst I was in government service before I pension early this year. I must say the staff of MBSA were very enthusiatic about learning how to use QGIS and like many, were impressed that is not such a difficult software to use ...after some formal training to guide them across. And like always I told them, practice makes perfect and I do not expect them to be good at it until they use it daily for a month as most of them are even still new to the world of GIS. </span></div>
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<u>Asmaniza Adzi</u><br />
QGIS mesra pengguna, menarik, senang dan mudah digunakan<br />
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<u>Azliyana Abd Halaim</u><br />
<u>Mudah dugunakan apabila mendapat latihan yang chukup</u><br />
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<u>Nurul Qalby Abdullah Sani</u><br />
User-friendly, sangat mudah difahami dan mudah digunakan. Ianya satu perisian yang bagus dan menarik<br />
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<u>Zuhaili Badianahan</u><br />
QGIS merupakan perisian yang boleh baca semua persiaan seperti ArcGIS , MapInfo dan sangat berguna untuk perancang bandar<br />
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<u>Shazana Mohd Noor</u><br />
QGIS sesuai digunakan dan mudah. Perlukan lagi kkursusQGIS ini untuk menamahkan ilmu untuk penggunaan perisian ini.<br />
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<u>Muhammad Nizam Md Yusof</u><br />
Mudah dan cepat<br />
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<u>Siti Azliza Ahmad</u><br />
Mula-mula tak faham, se;epasa dah buat latihan dan diberi penegerangan QGIS ini mudah dan cepat dan sesuai digunakan dalam bidang perancnagan.<br />
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<u>Syamrul Nizam</u><br />
Sesuai digunakan , mudah difahami dan cepa<br />
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<u>Abdul Aziz</u><br />
Sangat mudah difahamai dan yang paling penting adalah ianya percuma.<br />
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<u>Ahmad Nazmi</u><br />
Perisian yang mudah digunakan dan difahamaioleh pengguna. Akan tetapu memerlukan kursus/latihan lanjutan untuk lebih mahir<br />
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<u>Mahazir Jais</u><br />
Software yang memdudahkan kerja GIS<br />
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<u>Shahril Bashar</u><br />
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Abbas AWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16258480446911971324noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147006891212258908.post-45126878888180862252015-03-26T10:45:00.000+08:002015-03-27T07:24:25.072+08:00I-PLAN and QGIS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In a nutshell, the Federal Department of Town and Country Planning (JPBD), Peninsular Malaysia's Integrated National Landuse Information System (I-Plan) began development in October 2013 and is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2015. This landuse information system utilizes an enterprise relational database management system (RDBMS) linked to a web geospatial aplication for easy and convenient access to all interested parties including public. It is built wholly using Open Source Software (OSS) including Quantum GIS (QGIS) at workstations (initially distributed to every State Planning Department and eventually proposed to be distributed to every local planning authority), Enterprise PostgreSQL-PostGIS for the RDBMS, OpenGeo Suite for the GIS application and Tomcat Apache for the web application whereby the operating system for both server and desktop computer is my favourite Ubuntu (Isn't that a coincidence?). Incidentally, the preference for OSS as against the use of proprietary software saved the total project cost by about RM6 million. The centralized system consists of 7 physical servers and 3 virtual servers incorporating Development, Production, Database, GIS and failover functions. The initial stage involves vertical linkages from all local planning authorities within Peninsular Malaysia to all State Planning Departments and eventually to the centralized I-Plan system at Kuala Lumpur. In years to come, the system will be extended to horizontal linkages between the I-PLAN system and geo-spatial systems at key government agencies that want to share JPBD's landuse data via map services. The I-Plan project is a massive exercise to coordinate, standardize, collect, rectify topology errors, update landuse data and transform previous landuse maps from the Survey Department's state Cassini Soldner map projections to their Geocentric Datum of Malaysia (GDM2000) map projections. The I-Plan system covers 3 landuse category namely zoning, committed and existing landuse. Map update will be carried out bi-annually beginning 2015 on a district-sharing basis between JPBD departments at the federal and state level to help overcome technical manpower shortage at many local planning authorities mainly District Councils and ensure landuse data will not be obsolete but always up-to-date on a scheduled basis and accurately recorded. Myself, being as I-Plan Project Manager will not see it complete as I have to call it a day and pension by the end of this month where at this point in time, who will replace me is a million dollar question.</div>
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In the meantime, using the Linux Ubuntu QGIS Ver 2.8 at my office desktop computer, I activated one of the existing landuse maps for a particular local planning authority. That GIS map had already been transformed to GDM2000 map projection. Next, I added the JPBD town planning .qml colour template (which we customized based on the second version of JPBD's GIS manual for development plans) to that map and everything worked out fine. This was followed by activating Google Hybrid. I was expecting QGIS to crash as in previous version because Google Hybrid had to be activated first but no, not this version. It worked out fined again though of course, I had to move the raster Google Hybrid below the vector landuse map. Finally, I activated the go2streetview plugin. At first, I was not expecting it to work as I had the Google Hybrid underneath the landuse map and expected it only to work in synergy being directly on top of Google Hybrid but no, it worked out fine again and on top of the landuse map. As I rotated the view angle, I could see what was around the spot I had chosen to view. OMG, this will surely be a great help to local planning authorities that can now do virtual site visits and save themselves, time, money while enjoying the comfort of their office/home. It makes cross inspection between what is on a GIS map and the site so easy. As a government servant, I wanted so much to make QGIS the principal GIS for the public sector and I believe I have succeeded here, well, give it one or two more years because I-PLAN is making it popular nationwide among local planning authorities, me, having shrewdly defacto-ed it at I-Plan workstations. I look back at when I got to first know QGIS in 2009 and now see the tremendous improvements that have come about especially over the past few years, I must take my hat off to the dedicated developers who made it possible as I am but a humble user.</div>
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Abbas AWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16258480446911971324noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147006891212258908.post-2741495544549217682015-02-26T00:00:00.001+08:002015-02-26T10:03:20.463+08:00How to get help on QGIS fast when there's no one around to help?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I believe like so many of us, this is a common problem among first time QGIS users, that is, getting help on QGIS yet having no one reliable around who can help give advise and direction. Well, then do what I did when I first started to get to know QGIS... help is in actually in front of you if you are sitting in front of an internet computer. (Nowadays, this situation also covers smartphone users). I found that Google's search engine is the most reliable "friend" to guide me in this quest for knowledge. I also I found out from my many training class on QGIS that many people do not actually know how to use an internet search engine intelligently. The trick is actually to enter key words related to one's query but even if you don't even know what that is, type in the Google search engine box a proper question like "What is so and so?" Even the query type: What, When, Where, Who or How helps to further filter the query specifically and that helps to get better results. You can see in the first image, even I was too lazy to type a proper question but because it had key words, that helped a lot. In the second image, someone actually made my life easy and even asked my query as a proper question. Because 2 options were given, I went on further to click on other sites to get more information. Now, it's time for me to read on and see if I can get what I wanted. Wish me luck.</div>
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Once in a while, I become a busybody and have a peep to see what's new under the Plugins section. WALLA! I noticed a Google's Map street view plugin is available. I don't know how long it existed but I decided to give it a try. As usual, that Go2 streetview plugin needs to be installed. Then, I activated Google Hybrid next decided to activate the existing landuse map, as in this case, for Kubang Pasu district in Kedah. After activating Go2streetview under the Menu bar, I clicked on an existing road because that's the way Google Streetview works where hopefully that road has been surveyed by Google's street view team (I went over to Mauritius and although that country is developed, sadly, the streets have not been surveyed by Google's Streetview team) and a License agreement box popped out. I tried just clicking the first box but the module didn't work so I guess they wanted me to click the second box too. OK!OK! Let's not be too fussy and so I did then immediately a panaromic view angle appeared, by default pointing northwards and the street view could be seen in the box on the left. To see the other views, I rotated the cardinal point knob. All this while, I was surprised that the view angle point could connect with the Google Hybrid map underneath the existing landuse map, I didn't expect that. Cool! Some extras include viewing under Bing browser, taking a snapshot and putting up some comments, if needed. I think this is an excellent tool for comparing and monitoring between Google's maps and a preferred map be it a zoning map or in my case, an existing landuse map. I checked the visibility of the Streetview module and it is so sharp, I am so embarassed to show where my house is because you can even see the cracked tarmac road in front of my gate. I can imagine it is a a great help should the weather rains or in some countries, snows or it's too cold to go outside and one wants to check an unfamiliar site. This tool will surely help cut down petrol bills which is also good for the environment too. Because of that, I got to hand it and take my hat off to the QGIS team that took time and effort to develop this plugin. Simple things mean a lot. It gets my 5***** rating.</div>
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Today, just came back from Sunday's grocery, I noticed there was a QGIS update. This rarely happens so it caught my eye so upon download and installation, Walla! I get a Ubuntu QGIS Ver. 2.8. First thing I did was test it and it successfully opened a recent I-PLAN landuse map with an update .qml file that compliments I-PLAN's revised landuse colour code...and it works . Yeaaaah.</div>
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Efforts to hold a QGIS training surfaced in April after my department held an exhibition at Kota Kinabalu. The Sabah Town Planning Department followed through and was desirous to sponsor it but was hampered by financial constraint. Still we never gave up, on our part tried and eventually secured the financial resources to hold it which eventually took place at TH Hotel, Kota Kinabalu, 1-3/12/2014. Not including particiants from Sabah Town Planning Department, all local authorities were invited and we saw a mix of participants some were engineers, town planners and of IT background, many of whom were still new to GIS. However, some could not make it because it rained so heavy the first day that our flight was diverted to Labuan airport for 4 hours until the rain lessen which saw some parts of Sabah flood. However, I must say, the course was a success because they were so enthusiastic and kept asking, asking and asking questions and clever me made them make mistakes because I knew only too well that's the way that they'll learn fast. It continued in the night and their attendance was impressive to say the least even to the last day, trying hard to squeeze every bit of knowledge they could extract from me. I know the course which as basic-intermediate was rather heavy for first timers to GIS but I believe I had managed to pass on the fundamentals well. I hope QGIS will spread fast throughout Sabah from now onwards. Hello Sarawakians, what about you guys? Interested?</div>
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Thanks to En. Abbas Abdul Wahab and the team from JPBD for a job well done. QGIS is very usefull and quite friendly to use. It's just as good if not better as some of the commercial software out there.</div>
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QGIS sangat baik dalam kerja-kerja dokumentasi secara lebih teratur dan sistematik cuma minta lebih masa untuk kursus latihan dan praktikal masa akan datang.</div>
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QGIS lebih mudah digunakan dan di fahami serta sentiasa berkembang dari segi teknologinya. Apa yang lebih penting penggunaan QGIS dalam sektor kerajaan lebih menjimatkan dan memberi perluang kepada penyediaan <i>hardware</i> dengan lebih baik lagi.</div>
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Kursus QGIS ini sangat berguna dan dapat memberikan lebih pemahaman dalam menggunakan QGIS dengan cara yang betul. Namun masa kursus yang agak singkat dirasakan belum cukup untuk mempelajari dan memahami QGIS sepenhunya.<u> </u></div>
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<u>Zuldahri Tujoh</u><br />
Mudah difahamai dan <i>user-friendly</i><br />
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Mudah digunakan, sangat menarik dan berguna untuk membantu saya dalam kerja di pejabat dan yang penting FREE!!</div>
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Kursus yang sangat menarik. <i>First time </i>pelajari ilmu baru, menarik, mudah FREE. InsyaAllah diusahakan untuk mengimplitasik kemahiran baru ini dalam kerja-kerja harian dipejabat.</div>
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Kurus yang sangat menarik dan mudah untuk digunakan dan ianya percuma. Saya akan memberitahu kepada rakan-rakan mengenai QGIS</div>
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Kursus yang sangat berguna. Pertama kali menggunakan QGIS menampakkan berguna berkaitan kerja saya akan tetapi bukan skop kerja saya. Saya akan mempermosikan kepada kawan-kawan kursus ini perlu lanjutan.</div>
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Abbas AWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16258480446911971324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147006891212258908.post-8513161722173744802014-11-22T00:00:00.000+08:002014-11-22T05:21:15.297+08:00Raster Terrain Analysis<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I was invited to give a talk at the above workshop organized by the Royal University of Agriculture, Cambodia in cooperation with Deutsehe Geshellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. It centered on FOSS for land management and land administration with the objective to encourage the exchange of experiences and good practices, get rid of common misconceptions about FOSS and build trust in the reliability and the approach of open source software. There was a talk on the Laos Land registration System based on QGIS and PostgreSQL by Ms. Chansamai Kommanyvanh (Laos Ministry of Nat. Resources and Environment), Mr. Souksavanth Chanhtangeun and Mr. Christain Metzger (GIS Laos) After coffee break, I gave my talk on QGIS and landuse planning in Malaysia. This was followed by a talk on Geoserver implementation and integration into a website: the case study of the Open Development Cambodia website by Mr. Seila NHIEP (ODC). As we walked off for lunch, I was greeted by senior and junior participants who said they really enjoyed my presentation and found it most interesting. That pleased me a lot. After lunch, Mr. Christian Metzger talked during the workshop session on how to use the Toplogy Checker as well as plugins like MMGIS. If there was anything unfortunate, the power supply tripped 5 times during the afternoon but came back after 5 mins. I was told power failure trips are quite common in Cambodia however that day was an exception. Still, all-in-all, the Secretariat was most happy and agreed the workshop was a success where about 60 participants came and others had to be turned down because the venue could only handle a limited number of audience. I believed that with sceptics, one has to be honest about things, draw the line what QGIS can and cannot do, even clarify what desktop GIS do and cannot do then explain what alternatives are there, and lastly, the problems and challenges I faced to make the use of QGIS a success. Before this, I have been to Spain but never to Cambodia so for me, on the whole, it was most a most enjoyable trip.</div>
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My department relies on the Survey department's (JUPEM) cadaster map in the preparation of our value-added landuse maps where we traditionally use their Solder Cassini projected cadaster maps. Since 2010, JUPEM embarked on the preparation of geodetic NDCDB cadaster maps which we welcome it because it integrates all state cadaster maps under one reference point i.e. the centre of the earth just like their topography map with its reference point at Kertau,Pahang for Peninsular Malaysia. Using my trusty QGIS, now ver 2.6, I activated Google Hybrid then all 11 state cadaster maps and was most happy to see they fit well like a jigsaw puzzle as seen in the upper image. Next, I zoom down to the point where the cadaster maps of Pahang, Negeri Sembilan and Johor meet and as shown in the lower pix, again am very pleased that JUPEM has done an excellent job. There is an issue which we found that when the PDUK 2011 was transformed to GDM2000 projection using JUPEM's parameters, it still was not a mirror reflection of NDCDB cadaster map, even found that were more lots in the PDUK 2011 than the NDCDB 2013. We have still trying to resolve this or at least compromise but one thing is for sure, the way forward is the use of the NDCDB cadaster because every new annual cadaster map produced by JUPEM is based on the geodetic map projection which to me is a sound and practical move.</div>
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Of lately, I do not have the time to tinker with QGIS but just gave it a try and am very happy to note that QGIS 2.4 is compatible with Ubuntu 14.10 where my reference test is for QGIS to be able to activate Google Hybrid and it does so smoothly. For those of you who know me know that I'm a Ubuntu geek and can understand why the Ubuntu QGIS is more important to me than the Windows version. Got to go!</div>
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Surfing the internet, something caught my eye. It was an article about <a href="http://www.spatialvision.com.au/index.php/component/content/article/46-strategic-advice-projects/521-selecting-an-enterprise-gis-solution.html">Selecting an Enterprise GIS Solution</a> but to me it was simply <b><span style="color: blue;">gvSIG vs. QGIS</span></b>. I always then needed this sort of comparative analysis from big time GIS people who were also well verse with ESRI products and could serve as a valuable second opinion after all, this chap Abbas doesn't really know what's he's talking does he, when he talks about QGIS, after all, his first degree is not from Geomatics. This is the reality I have to put up with but I knew after toying around with it in its early days, QGIS is the way to go and I know I am right. Well, I'll let this article do the talking.</div>
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Every morning, I would as usual select Ubuntu's Software Updater and give it a run for its "money" then I noticed during the downloading process, most of the files were related to QGIS. The system auto-installed after which I noticed my QGIS icon disappeared. I went to create a new one and Hey Presto I see we have got a new version of QGIS called Chugiak which is a place up in Alaska. That rings a bell because if I am not mistaken, Gary Sherman resides in Alaska, the details of which I do not know. This is the weekend and I have so many domestic chores to do so for the time being, this is the latest news direct from my oven. I did however immediately checked and successfully updated the OpenLayers and Table Manager plugins. Unfortunately when I activated Google Hybrid, it appeared in the layer menu but refused to appear on the screen. The good news is that on my 64 bit i5 CPU home computer, Google Satellite activated with no hiccups and boy, this time, rendering is very fast! Someone(s) must obviously have been doing their homework right. I take my hat off to you, QGIS developers. The QGIS icon also disappears when I closed QGIS and recreate itself again upon manual recreation of icon but I expect this to be temporary issue. The bad news news is that my 32 bit office Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz × 2 computer cannot seem to handle QGIS 2.4.0 when it concerns activating Google Maps be it Google Hybrid or even Google Satellite and will always crash. Rats! Since QGIS 2.4 is recognized as the development version and QGIS 2.2 is the stable Release version, I guess we'll have to wait for it to be fine-tuned.</div>
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The need to acquire free GIS data preferably in .shp format is probably in the mind of many GIS users because the majority of GIS users worldwide use .shp format. I did some web surfing and found DIVA-GIS to be a fruitful site and as you can see from above, I managed to download the administrative map of Malaysia...and there are other types too there. </div>
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OK, it's the weekend and I'm too lazy to do my home chores so I'm tinkering with QGIS :-D , reviving the steps I previously did a long time ago to download OpenStreetMap maps into QGIS as independent GIS feature layers (point, polylines and polygons), a cheapskate way (knowing me) to get GIS data. There is only 1 condition which I have yet to explore that is the OpenStreetMap had to be set to on-the-fly or else downloading of data could not be done. What does that imply? I leave that to you. As for me, I activated OpenStreetMap then went over to Kota Kinabalu just as a random pilot project site. Using OpenStreetMap plugin, I successfully ran the first module: Download data. Next, I successfully ran the second module: Import topology from XML. Thirdly, I successfully ran the third module: Export topology to SpatiaLite. Yes, it works! The only thing I could not pinch was the basemap Mmmmm :-(</div>
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Abbas AWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16258480446911971324noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147006891212258908.post-71028237007543627272014-05-08T00:00:00.000+08:002014-05-08T12:47:01.350+08:00How to install QCAD in Ubuntu?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Today, I upgraded my Ubuntu to 14.04 LTS then deleted my previous QGIS 2.2. I went back to the Ubuntu Software Centre to see what Ubuntu will recommend as the most compatible version for the latest Ubuntu OS, a step which one should approach if desirous for the most compatible version for the Ubuntu version that is currently installed. When QGIS was installed, I activated it and it seems the version most compatible is Ver 2.0.1-Dufour. By "compatible", I found that Google Maps could be imported as against QGIS 2.2 which is my basic criteria for critical plugins. I give it my thumbs up and 5*****</div>
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This manual is available <a href="http://manual.linfiniti.com/">here</a> courtesy of Linfiniti. It is in HTML mode and pdf and comes in in both English and Bahasa Indonesia which incidentally Malaysians can understand Bahasa Indonesia too because the Malay and Indonesian language are similar albeit slight regional preference/difference.</div>
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Abbas AWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16258480446911971324noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147006891212258908.post-83377994768006160072014-02-28T00:00:00.000+08:002014-03-02T20:03:57.673+08:00Synaptic Package Manager saves the day<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A few days ago, Ubuntu's Update Manager showed there were a number of QGIS files to be downloaded but I could not do it because they came from an unauthenticated source. Rats! So I tried to update Ubuntu's patch files via the terminal but there was still no changes insofar as QGIS patch files were concerned. Lastly, I decided to go back to my previous lover, the Synaptic Package Manager which I left behind some time ago when the sexy Update Manager came along into the scene. She responded as reliable as always cutting away the red tapes, downloading and installing all those patch files the Update Manager would not. My dearest, Synapatic Package Manager...I have been a bad boy, where in the world would I be without you?</div>
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Hari ni minggu, maka boleh lah godek-godek sikit QGIS. Kini, QCAD diekploitasi untuk convert fail .dwg kepada fail .dxf lalu digunakan QGIS untuk convert fail .dxf kepada fail .shp. Kemudian fitur polyline diconvert kepada polygon. Tak sampai 5 minit semuanya siap! Kemudian, saya berjaya memindah dan mengabungkan polygon tersebut dengan lapisan gunatanah dan sedia maklum pihak berkuasa perancang tempatan juga ingin melakukannya cuma disini semuanya saya tercapai tanpa membeli persirian CAD dan GIS.</div>
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Today is Sunday so I have time to fool around with QGIS. Here QCAD was exploited to convert a .dwg file into a .dxf file then QGIS was used to convert that .dxf file into a .shp file. Later, polyline features were converted into a polygon. All this took less than 5 mins.! Eventually, I managed to migrate that polygon, merge and successfully updated the landuse layer which I know is what local planning authorities want to do except that here I do it without having to pay for a proprietary CAD and GIS software.</div>
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