Nobody has time to learn one more piece of software: AI and open source
Last month I needed a photogrammetric flight grid over an area that was already open in QGIS, with the property...
Read ArticleLogis: waste collection routing in QGIS
Logis, my new QGIS plugin, has been approved in the official plugin repository as version 0.1.8, flagged experimental. It groups...
Read ArticleHow to Compute the Federal Network's Ideb When INEP Does Not Publish That Series
Between 2019 and 2025 the average secondary-education Ideb rose in the state-run schools and fell in the federal schools I...
Read ArticleSIG-Bus: editing a route's GTFS timetable without opening the .zip
The BHTrans feed is loaded in QGIS, route 3350 is selected, and a few morning trips need to leave ten...
Read ArticleTwo Years on Linux with AI: Emancipation or a Swapped Dependency?
Last week the laptop stopped waking from suspend. Black screen, fan spinning, and only Ctrl+Alt+F3 would hand me back a...
Read ArticleGisBR 0.4.3: SSL Certificates for Fresh Windows/OSGeo4W Installs
Someone installs QGIS from scratch through OSGeo4W, opens GisBR and tries to download any official layer. The answer is unable...
Read ArticleDesire Lines 0.3.2: Portuguese interface and QGIS 4.x (Qt6) compatibility
The Desire Lines plugin picked up two updates that change who can use it and where. The interface is now...
Read ArticleGisBR 0.3.2: OSM Road Networks and the End of the Experimental Label
About two years ago I talked with professor Xuesong (Simon) Zhou, from Arizona State University, one of the authors of...
Read ArticleGisBR: Brazil's Official Spatial Datasets Straight into QGIS
GisBR, my new QGIS plugin, has been approved in the official plugin repository as an experimental release. It brings the...
Read ArticleSIG-Bus: from the interface to the PDF report
SIG-Bus’s interface is deliberately compact: each button maps to a step in the analysis workflow, and no field asks for...
Read ArticleHow a Master Plan Is Built: the Five Stages in Practice
A Master Plan has to be revised at least every ten years. Yet before a single line of the bill...
Read ArticleReading the Territory: Diagnosing the Real City with Open Data
Reading the Territory is the stage where a Master Plan swaps the idealized city on paper for the city that...
Read ArticleSIG-Bus: GTFS Reader and Passenger Demand Integration for QGIS
SIG-Bus has a well-defined purpose: read GTFS feeds inside QGIS, cross-reference them with per-stop boarding records, and deliver synthetic reports...
Read ArticleDesire Lines 0.2.0: AoN allocation on Delaunay networks and QGIS usability updates
The new update of the Desire Lines plugin (version 0.2.0) introduces advanced flow allocation tools and significant usability enhancements. The...
Read ArticleThe Master Plan: Why It Relies on Surveying and Mapping
The Master Plan (in Brazil, Plano Diretor) is the basic law governing a municipality’s urban development and expansion policy, as...
Read ArticleDesire Lines plugin available in the official QGIS repository
The Desire Lines plugin is now integrated into the official QGIS plugin repository. This approval makes installation straightforward via the...
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