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Cleaning and reducing GPS tracks in QGIS

I’ve been going through our database of GPS tracks in a sort of spring-cleaning mode, partly prompted by thoughts of tracing our paths onto clay in an attempt to produce what has stumped us so far: a 3D map of … Continue reading

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Adventures with the My Book World Edition (Whitelight) NAS harddrive

Recently, I’ve been obsessing about the network here at home, now we have our own connection to the Internet and router (in the last flat, we shared this via an Ethernet cable that came from our neighbour’s flat). I wasn’t … Continue reading

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Layout with Scribus – no more InDesign

In my constant and daily attempt not to have to boot into Windoze to perform the tasks I need to complete I found myself having to update (remake) my portfolio for an application today. I made the application itself in … Continue reading

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HP DraftPro EXL (7576A) Pen Plotter working

It’s been a long time waiting for me down the studio, but the other day, I managed to crack getting the plotter we bought on eBay for 40 Euros working. At the moment, it’s under WindowsXP and through AutoCAD, which … Continue reading

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How to Georeference K5 Raster Maps from the Berlin Senat in QGis

I was lucky enough to get a present from the wonderfully generous Teri Rueb when she was in Berlin making an mscape project (those were the days) at the Akademie der Künste. Even though it’s out-of-date, I still like the … Continue reading

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