Not really overlooked but rarely discussed outside of circles where it is used. QGIS is highly flexible tool and can do almost anything with the right modifications. My last specialist internship/part-time job at a company specialized in forest fertilizer spreadings really opened my eyes how versatile and powerful this program really is.
I work in the environmental industry. Creating site maps is routine. One that I made overlapped another site with a friendly competitor. I emailed a copy of mine to the GIS expert there, to see if my interpretation was close to hers. I took it as a compliment when she asked about the software that I was using. Microsoft Visio.
Hey same here, I'm in school for a Surveying degree with a focus on GIS. I just got hired as a GIS intern for the city I live in as well. It's such a cool field, I love it so far.
Since my first comment seems to have been deleted: for everyones info arc map and arcpro are better than QGIS but as stated in the vid it’s expensive and you wont get the most out of it if you dont have the GOTS version. Some scales to make your products in if you are used to MGRS is 1:25,000 1:50,000 and 1:100,000. QGIS is used by alot of partner nations and third world militaries due to it being free and readily accessible. If you are using a map for navigation purposes dont forget to add a GM angle to your product so you know how to convert your azimuths back and forth for the area you are operating in. And if you plan to pursue this type of software or work the two main types of data you will be working with is Raster and Vector data. Pick up some GIS books and familiarize yourself with the capabilities of this software.
I've noticed some of my comments being deleted here as well. I actually had links to Amazon for a couple of adapter parts for the Soviet trench periscope, minus the overpriced GoPro crap and... It's gone.
"for everyone's info arc map and arcpro are better than QGIS" Those are fighting words right there. I work in a GIS consulting company, use both ArcMAP. I also teach GIS at university. ArcMap is generally inferior to QGIS. Only thing better about it the help file and support. Cartographic output is much better in QGIS. I get far more done and a shorter space of time in QGIS, whereas menus and most tools are not ergonomically accessible in ArcMap, the interface is late 90s. ArcGIS Pro focused on improving the quality of UI. It is in my opinion about equivalent to QGIS in most areas, though it has some advantages in some tools and capabilities. However, most users complain about the slow speed of ArcGIS Pro compared to QGIS. The problem with ArcGIS Pro is that although it looks gorgeous, its UI is built upon core legacy code. Many of the software developers and programmers who wrote the core of ArcMap, that ended up in Pro, have retired and what's left are UI developers who have little understanding of the back box closed source code. It's ArcMap in a nice suit.
Good tips folks Definitely the links The more off platform the worster Maybe sometimes or in someplaces you can link to TH-cam vids in youtube now? That may be a channel setting like cussing I can cuss in some places Where the streets have no names and I wipe my own ass
@15:32 - You shouldn't have to lose map grid by redrawing to accommodate the coordinates. You change the orientation of the 'Draw Coordinates / Decimal with Suffix' from 'Horizontal' to 'Vertical,' in the appropriate positions this will have them hug the map edge all the way around.
As a now middle aged man who grew up with a grand total of exactly zero males in his entire childhood, I really appreciate men who take it upon themselves to share their man-knowledge. Respect for what you choose to spend your time doing, S2. Sincerely.
Not sure if it's an option in the program, but a black stroke around white text is visible on basically any background. If there's a text outline feature, adding a contrasting stroke around the text with greatly increase readability. Very cool video, and the first time I've seen anything about this program, I might play around with it.
Key note about the ESRI World Topo: On the bottom left tab (Layers), if you right click the ESRI World Topo layer, you can change its Properties. Under Symbology, you can make the Gamma 0.25 instead of 1 so the topographic lines are more clear. Also, at 18:39 you can add the North Arrow at the top left by clicking Add Item -> Add North Arrow
I know this video is a year old by now, but hopefully it reaches someone! If you are using metric units of measure in your scale bar, it is far easier to use scales such as 1:25,000, 1:50,000, or 1:100,000 because 1cm on the map will equal 250, 500 meters, and 1km respectively. If you are using US Standard units of measure use 1:24,000, 1:48,000, 1:72,000 for 1" on the map being 2,000; 4,000; and 6,000 feet respectively. Alternatively, you can use the close approximation of 1:62,500 for 1" = 1 mile. That way you can use a ruler, assuming it has both centimeters and inches to measure distance on the ground
2:39 "The Open Street Map from Google". As a contributor to OSM myself: No, no it isn't. We are an open data project. The OpenStreetMap Foundation hosts OSM. It has nothing to do with Google. That's the entire point of the project.
Great primer video on QGIS! It's amazing how beneficiary it is to create special maps for different activities. I have been using this application on and off for several years. I can attest that after not using it for a few of months it takes some work to remember how to complete GIS functions. It's a great tool to have in the hiking, camping, traveling and land nav tool boxes.
Thank you!! I have made multiple maps of my property and surrounding lands, but because of pulling screenshots from backcounty navigation programs to get good topo my resolution was not great, I had no useful scale, etc. This will be MUCH better.
Check my channel, I have a good tutorial on using shapefiles from county and state to determine property boundaries and you can overlay those with contours and other data you might need.
@@highdesertdrew1844 Thanks! I will check out your stuff, if only to learn. We pulled maps from the county, and sadly because of the lack of surveying data nothing (or any adjacent/nearby properties) match actual boundaries. That being said, I'm SURE I will learn something. Thanks!
@@user-zt2vf6vx7p Hahaha nope i'm a different DJ, funny though we did serve around the same time in the military (him SEALS me Army, both Iraq), love the GBRS Group guys too, definitely make my way around the circuit to all the "in the know" channels ;) don't be a stranger bro!
Can the software "split up" an area and print it across several pages? I grew up in the era of Thomas Guides, and being able to create something like that of a much larger area (but printed across 4, 6, 8 pages, for example) without having to create each map segment separately would be useful.
Wonderful tutorial. Two requests: Make your MOUSE CURSOR BIGGER so it's easier to track. Make your FONTS LARGER so they are easy to read. I'm using 23" monitors and pumped up youtube to 1440 output but still found the display hard to track and follow. Even a 50% increase in font size would do wonders for being able to follow. In any case, THANKS for the video; it was an excellent introduction.
Very true, plus not all of us can read Russian. I wonder if theres a way, I'm sure there has to be, to change font size of text on the map and translate foreign languages?
I bet artillery attacks have already been made on areas where software detected soldiers or movement from training apps tracking joggers and so on. It's particularly interesting to look at heat maps around areas where people _aren't_ supposed to cross, such as border areas, and see how people cross those areas anyway. To me it's just amazing how people can leave such an app _on_ while doing something so stupid / dangerous.
To a similar point, I heard through the grapevine that the russians linked their artillery systems to radio direction finding equipment in order to locate and fire on ukranian militants' radios. That's some scary sh*t right there.
Nice too know I was looking for some topographic maps of my local area, to practice land navigation, I could not find any printed (digital yes, analog no.)
Great idea. Unfortunately something [probably my system] seems to be preventing loading of the plugins...namely Quickmap Services so I may not be able to use this.
Would you consider just dumping a bunch of tools at once for us all to play with? Maybe do another instructional on the most popular? As always, very useful tool, very concise video. Thank you!
Love this as I left SFCAA half my peers from our days in uniform are contractors or esri developers at the nga. The stories I could tell about nome and gait and the other crazy stuff thats /u/
This is excellent, curious why you dont use MGRS? Would love to see how to do that with QGIS and create multiple maps of surrounding area of this one. Example map above and below and left and right of this one?
I use the free version of Caltopo maps to create my own maps for land navigation practice. Much easier process but maybe not as much options from the free version compared to this.
Excellent video! I noticed that each time I create a map it pulls the data from the Internet. Is there a way to store some of these maps for offline usage?
Quick question from (far) distant 80s: Had a discussion on the regimental FB page about iron sites, which of course, due to CAV troopers being involved, developed into rant about old school and new school. This went of course to navigation and IF the new army is still using paper maps.
Get an error using Magnetic Declination when trying to draw the label "TypeError: a member of enum 'LabelPlacement' is expected not 'LabelPredefinedPointPosition' " But can still get the results needed in the window. Just wondering if anyone else is?
@Mialisus I'll take you up on that offer: It's Free Software, meaning that it places all the responsibility in your hands and your hands only. Also, the map used in the video, OpenStreetMap has NOTHING to do with Google. I don't know where he gets that idea from, but it's the entire point of the project to NOT be slave to the big G.
No! The only "ping" back to the project is when you click "download" on the web page. Essentially a download counter. There's an ongoing discussion if they should also record how many online QGIS launches there are every day. QGIS will check if it is running the latest version, if you don't turn it of in the settings. For now this check is not recorded. No personal or in other way identifiable data is sent anywhere from the base software. What individual plugins do that you add yourself is another question.
mobile map software on your phone pretty much makes this obsolete. gaia gps has more than enough layers to satisfy and an entire area can be downloaded for offline use. they can also be printed if needed.
Awesome video, great instructions! Stupid question, I know we need paper maps and it kinda defeats the purpose, but is there a way to dump your custom maps into, lets say a hand held Garmin? Just for fun here....
I need to create a simple map and drop pins in multiple cities to demonstrate a route .. Berlin, Germany to Vilnius, Lithuania to Minsk, Soviet Union ... I downloaded QGIS, but got stuck when I tried "Search QMS". Hoping someone can help me.
How would you generate sections to a large area of osm data so you could work on individual grids in the layout. I would eventually like those layouts to be printed and have them all align after printing them.
@@jonny_wright Thank you Jonathan. I'm learning ATAC CIV and uploading better maps is a high priority for me. I appreciate your feedback. Have a great day.
Is there a forum I can ask questions on? I'm having trouble once I get to the page properties and sizing to the paper. It forces all the print so tiny its illedgible when I try to set the map back to 1:24000 even though I already had it to 1:24000 before bringing map to the formatting screen for printing.
This is a bit off topic, but it would be an interesting video or two. If you were to set up an intel operation let’s, say in occupied territory, how would you go about doing it?
QGIS can use any transformation to reproject the map to any projection including ones suitable to work with a compass. In the bottom right there's a text with "EPSG:...". If you click there you will get a dialogue with all available projections you can use. For anyone not used to work with projections a warning, coordinate reference systems and projections/transformations is kind of complex...
@@KlasKarlsson Yes it is. I have seen all the math that went into it. I had looked into why Mercador was still used and saw all the math that went into projections. Taking me all the way back to Calc 3
Pretty awesome as long as one has electricity and internet. How about basic map making for an electricity challenged world? Let's say all I had was a magnetic compass, a piece of paper, and a pencil. I'll even throw in an inclinometer. How would I proceed to make a map of my surroundings? How would I estimate elevations, and distances? Not ragging on the video, just pointing out some "considerations", as electricity may not always be available... See, I grew up in a pre-electronic age. Calculators didn't exist until I was halfway through high school. I know how to make maps using mechanical means, few do.
A Brunton Compass is a good tool. For me, learning how to estimate 500' within a reasonable range helped. Inverse tangent of 45 degrees is .707, which are both the horizontal and vertical lengths. You can kinda do your vertical distances arithmetically from there off of horizontal distance and the angle. I'm talking estimates.
Much of the electrically challenged 3rd world is using, QGIS to do everything from tracking forest fires, and other environmental concerns to planning roads, sewer systems, electrical grids etc. QGIS easily runs on low power laptop and is cross platform, so you don't even have to buy a copy of Windows. I have it successfully running stable on a surface go with a Pentium processor. When your done making the map print it and use your compass. This video doesn't even scratch the surface of what this program can do once you start using vector data. Trying to map hundreds or thousands of data points over a large area isn't practical on paper. Right now I'm working on a map for a 90 mile bicycle event I known I have 100's of data points on the map just wouldn't be possible for me to do that on paper.
@@markcarpenter3600 Awesome for you, but what happens if the electricity and internet go away and you need to make some detailed maps? That is my point.
@@richavic4520 I'll absolutely NEVER buy another Brunton Compass. I ordered direct from them with the compass being defective on arrival, combined with horrible customer service. All I wanted was a replacement compass. It ultimately took me filing a credit card dispute to get the RMA and refund. Cammenga Lensatic or Suunto are who I recommend now.
Depends on your location. It isn't just latitude that causes it to vary, but longitude as well. The magnetic poles have been moving substantially the last few years (enough that they've had to update far ahead of schedule) - so you need to check for the area you are building the map for.
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Another overlooked skill in the digital age.
Thank you, S2.
Not really overlooked but rarely discussed outside of circles where it is used. QGIS is highly flexible tool and can do almost anything with the right modifications. My last specialist internship/part-time job at a company specialized in forest fertilizer spreadings really opened my eyes how versatile and powerful this program really is.
I work in the environmental industry.
Creating site maps is routine.
One that I made overlapped another site with a friendly competitor. I emailed a copy of mine to the GIS expert there, to see if my interpretation was close to hers.
I took it as a compliment when she asked about the software that I was using.
Microsoft Visio.
As a geography and GIS student, I appreciate this. Hopefully it inspires more people to become geographers!
As a graduate with gis and geography degrees, I say be an engineer lol /s
@@chuckfinley3152 What brings you to say that?
Hey same here, I'm in school for a Surveying degree with a focus on GIS. I just got hired as a GIS intern for the city I live in as well. It's such a cool field, I love it so far.
@@MC-zr7hl do you free lance?
@@chuckfinley3152 Money and opportunities
Brilliant..never knew this existed. Going to use this to teach ~50 Boy Scouts orienteering skills (and now map-making skills)
Since my first comment seems to have been deleted: for everyones info arc map and arcpro are better than QGIS but as stated in the vid it’s expensive and you wont get the most out of it if you dont have the GOTS version. Some scales to make your products in if you are used to MGRS is 1:25,000 1:50,000 and 1:100,000. QGIS is used by alot of partner nations and third world militaries due to it being free and readily accessible. If you are using a map for navigation purposes dont forget to add a GM angle to your product so you know how to convert your azimuths back and forth for the area you are operating in. And if you plan to pursue this type of software or work the two main types of data you will be working with is Raster and Vector data. Pick up some GIS books and familiarize yourself with the capabilities of this software.
I've noticed some of my comments being deleted here as well.
I actually had links to Amazon for a couple of adapter parts for the Soviet trench periscope, minus the overpriced GoPro crap and... It's gone.
@@erwin643
I've noticed the same thing on many channels. Comments with links disappear.
"for everyone's info arc map and arcpro are better than QGIS"
Those are fighting words right there. I work in a GIS consulting company, use both ArcMAP. I also teach GIS at university.
ArcMap is generally inferior to QGIS. Only thing better about it the help file and support. Cartographic output is much better in QGIS. I get far more done and a shorter space of time in QGIS, whereas menus and most tools are not ergonomically accessible in ArcMap, the interface is late 90s.
ArcGIS Pro focused on improving the quality of UI. It is in my opinion about equivalent to QGIS in most areas, though it has some advantages in some tools and capabilities. However, most users complain about the slow speed of ArcGIS Pro compared to QGIS.
The problem with ArcGIS Pro is that although it looks gorgeous, its UI is built upon core legacy code. Many of the software developers and programmers who wrote the core of ArcMap, that ended up in Pro, have retired and what's left are UI developers who have little understanding of the back box closed source code. It's ArcMap in a nice suit.
Good tips folks
Definitely the links
The more off platform the worster
Maybe sometimes or in someplaces you can link to TH-cam vids in youtube now?
That may be a channel setting like cussing
I can cuss in some places
Where the streets have no names and I wipe my own ass
@15:32 - You shouldn't have to lose map grid by redrawing to accommodate the coordinates.
You change the orientation of the 'Draw Coordinates / Decimal with Suffix' from 'Horizontal' to 'Vertical,' in the appropriate positions this will have them hug the map edge all the way around.
This! It was driving me crazy. I could see the horizontal drop down box, it only made sense we'd be able rotate them. Smh. Thank you!
As a now middle aged man who grew up with a grand total of exactly zero males in his entire childhood, I really appreciate men who take it upon themselves to share their man-knowledge. Respect for what you choose to spend your time doing, S2. Sincerely.
Not sure if it's an option in the program, but a black stroke around white text is visible on basically any background. If there's a text outline feature, adding a contrasting stroke around the text with greatly increase readability.
Very cool video, and the first time I've seen anything about this program, I might play around with it.
Key note about the ESRI World Topo: On the bottom left tab (Layers), if you right click the ESRI World Topo layer, you can change its Properties. Under Symbology, you can make the Gamma 0.25 instead of 1 so the topographic lines are more clear.
Also, at 18:39 you can add the North Arrow at the top left by clicking Add Item -> Add North Arrow
I know this video is a year old by now, but hopefully it reaches someone!
If you are using metric units of measure in your scale bar, it is far easier to use scales such as 1:25,000, 1:50,000, or 1:100,000 because 1cm on the map will equal 250, 500 meters, and 1km respectively.
If you are using US Standard units of measure use 1:24,000, 1:48,000, 1:72,000 for 1" on the map being 2,000; 4,000; and 6,000 feet respectively.
Alternatively, you can use the close approximation of 1:62,500 for 1" = 1 mile.
That way you can use a ruler, assuming it has both centimeters and inches to measure distance on the ground
2:39 "The Open Street Map from Google". As a contributor to OSM myself: No, no it isn't. We are an open data project. The OpenStreetMap Foundation hosts OSM. It has nothing to do with Google. That's the entire point of the project.
3:46 Still not Google.
@@fredwupkensoppel8949 I knew he was making a mistake by saying you guys are Google. But I'm like "whatever".
@@rustym.shackelford5546 Aparrently you're not "whatever" enough to not comment about your whatever-ness.
@@fredwupkensoppel8949 Lol. I can't help but to comment. Leads to interesting convos. But yeah - I am sure S2 will correct this mistake.
@@fredwupkensoppel8949 lol
Nice to know about this software and the quick "how to"
THANK YOU for all the good stuff!
Great primer video on QGIS! It's amazing how beneficiary it is to create special maps for different activities.
I have been using this application on and off for several years. I can attest that after not using it for a few of months it takes some work to remember how to complete GIS functions. It's a great tool to have in the hiking, camping, traveling and land nav tool boxes.
Thank you!! I have made multiple maps of my property and surrounding lands, but because of pulling screenshots from backcounty navigation programs to get good topo my resolution was not great, I had no useful scale, etc. This will be MUCH better.
Check my channel, I have a good tutorial on using shapefiles from county and state to determine property boundaries and you can overlay those with contours and other data you might need.
@@highdesertdrew1844 Thanks! I will check out your stuff, if only to learn.
We pulled maps from the county, and sadly because of the lack of surveying data nothing (or any adjacent/nearby properties) match actual boundaries.
That being said, I'm SURE I will learn something. Thanks!
Absolutely love this kind of instructional video for useful things. Keep em coming.
Thanks I have been struggling to fined descant mapping for my area. so spent a productive afternoon making some thanks to your video
Great Info
Fantastic topic! Highly undervalued, but extremely necessary. Great job!
Damn bro I see you everywhere lol I used to think you were Shipley's channel after seeing you on GBRS
@@user-zt2vf6vx7p Hahaha nope i'm a different DJ, funny though we did serve around the same time in the military (him SEALS me Army, both Iraq), love the GBRS Group guys too, definitely make my way around the circuit to all the "in the know" channels ;)
don't be a stranger bro!
Can the software "split up" an area and print it across several pages? I grew up in the era of Thomas Guides, and being able to create something like that of a much larger area (but printed across 4, 6, 8 pages, for example) without having to create each map segment separately would be useful.
I've been searching this for a while thanks! I hope you'll make one with more detailed map example
It's very likely you can rotate the latitude labels 90 degrees to make it take up less space
Now... this is exactly what I needed! Thank You so much man.
Wonderful tutorial. Two requests: Make your MOUSE CURSOR BIGGER so it's easier to track. Make your FONTS LARGER so they are easy to read. I'm using 23" monitors and pumped up youtube to 1440 output but still found the display hard to track and follow. Even a 50% increase in font size would do wonders for being able to follow. In any case, THANKS for the video; it was an excellent introduction.
Very true, plus not all of us can read Russian. I wonder if theres a way, I'm sure there has to be, to change font size of text on the map and translate foreign languages?
Thank you, this program is beyond cool.
You should make a basic land nav course that would be awesome
as a land surveyor's son, this pleases me greatly.
I bet artillery attacks have already been made on areas where software detected soldiers or movement from training apps tracking joggers and so on. It's particularly interesting to look at heat maps around areas where people _aren't_ supposed to cross, such as border areas, and see how people cross those areas anyway. To me it's just amazing how people can leave such an app _on_ while doing something so stupid / dangerous.
To a similar point, I heard through the grapevine that the russians linked their artillery systems to radio direction finding equipment in order to locate and fire on ukranian militants' radios. That's some scary sh*t right there.
Nice too know I was looking for some topographic maps of my local area, to practice land navigation, I could not find any printed (digital yes, analog no.)
Thanks mate, good job. Would be awesome if one could add an UTM grid / MGRS (Nato grid) instead of decimal ...any idea how to achieve this?
We looked at GIS a bit for my real estate college courses but it was all very high level.
Outstanding tutorial!
Great idea. Unfortunately something [probably my system] seems to be preventing loading of the plugins...namely Quickmap Services so I may not be able to use this.
Thank you for this tutorial. I see so many applications for this. Hunting pheasant will be mine. Looking forward to the next vid.
Would you consider just dumping a bunch of tools at once for us all to play with? Maybe do another instructional on the most popular?
As always, very useful tool, very concise video. Thank you!
Love this as I left SFCAA half my peers from our days in uniform are contractors or esri developers at the nga. The stories I could tell about nome and gait and the other crazy stuff thats /u/
Sick, I'm basically an 18f now
This is excellent, curious why you dont use MGRS? Would love to see how to do that with QGIS and create multiple maps of surrounding area of this one. Example map above and below and left and right of this one?
Free and open source, nice.
I use the free version of Caltopo maps to create my own maps for land navigation practice. Much easier process but maybe not as much options from the free version compared to this.
Very good tutorial! thank you
LOVE this application! Also enjoy hearing that heavy duty keyboard, is it milspec?
Do you know if it's possible to add a military grid reference system?
Great info. Thank you for the walkthrough.
Guess i can stop making my maps in excel or paint. AWESOME!
Okay, this is actually pretty useful.
Now I don't need to print screen google maps for my TTRPG assets.
Fantastic! Thanks for posting this.
very nice, impressive. Please make a geological map in QGIS
Amy way to use this in ATAK, and able to do a whole state ?
Ok this is useful. Thank you.
Awesome video! I used to use Delorme and Garmin software, but this is an awesome alternative.
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Excellent video! I noticed that each time I create a map it pulls the data from the Internet. Is there a way to store some of these maps for offline usage?
Awesome resource thank you! MGRS all the way.
When I saw the blacksquare I was like oh his computer has artifacts... then I realized there is a reason that was placed there
Dude, you're like the Bob Ross of cartography.
Thank you, excellent vid, made one already, can't seem to find MGRS grid though in version Zurich, how can this be added?
I’m kinda in the GIS field. I’m an AutoCad operator. It’s pretty easy to make maps with those things. But AutoCad is also pretty expensive
I use QGIS to make maps, but I believe QGIS does have CAD functions.
Can you add grid lines. As in MGRS
Thank you for the information.
Could you maybe make a video on different ways to make maps for civTAK, so that it can be used without Internet connection?
This is great. Out of curiosity is it possible to port this over to ATAK?
You can export files to KML and KMZ, I don't know what formats ATAK take, but GIS shapefiles is not one of them that I'm aware of.
How would you set the grid up for MGRS?
As a land surveyor, I can tell you for a fact that GIS stands for Get... It... Surveyed... lol
Quick question from (far) distant 80s: Had a discussion on the regimental FB page about iron sites, which of course, due to CAV troopers being involved, developed into rant about old school and new school. This went of course to navigation and IF the new army is still using paper maps.
yes, we still do, there's some new stuff (digital gear in vehicles) but yes we still use paper maps
We all still learn paper maps before touching any of the new stuff
@@sugma3475 Most Excellent!
Awesome video! Hopefully there is a way to bring in waypoints like KML data etc.
If you have a KML of KMZ file you can simply drag and drop it onto the map.
how to add MGRS wouldve been nice
Get an error using Magnetic Declination when trying to draw the label
"TypeError: a member of enum 'LabelPlacement' is expected not 'LabelPredefinedPointPosition' "
But can still get the results needed in the window. Just wondering if anyone else is?
I'm sure that qgis can process DTED, but is DTED something you even want to bother importing into your maps?
CalTOPO is worth the cost for the best version, group funding goes a long way.
Memory aid for magnetic declination adjustment: "east is least"
Lovin maps!
Is is possible to do maps with MGRS vice lat/long/degrees? I haven't downloaded the program yet so I don't know.
Would GPS notes be used, for Arty plotting fire mussions?
Please do more ATAK videos now, got a computer to use!!!
Any tips for making the declination plugin window bigger? It's 100% unusable when it pops up on my computer. TIA
Does this program harvest data like many other "free" programs?
Don’t know but I bet it does.
QGIS is a open source tool, not sure if it will acquire your data
@Mialisus I'll take you up on that offer: It's Free Software, meaning that it places all the responsibility in your hands and your hands only. Also, the map used in the video, OpenStreetMap has NOTHING to do with Google. I don't know where he gets that idea from, but it's the entire point of the project to NOT be slave to the big G.
No! The only "ping" back to the project is when you click "download" on the web page. Essentially a download counter.
There's an ongoing discussion if they should also record how many online QGIS launches there are every day. QGIS will check if it is running the latest version, if you don't turn it of in the settings. For now this check is not recorded. No personal or in other way identifiable data is sent anywhere from the base software. What individual plugins do that you add yourself is another question.
mobile map software on your phone pretty much makes this obsolete. gaia gps has more than enough layers to satisfy and an entire area can be downloaded for offline use. they can also be printed if needed.
lord forbid batteries from ever dying right?
does qgis have COGO functions like ESRI's arcview/arcmap?
Open Street Map is not from Google. It is a 100% free and independent crowd sourced project
Thank you 😊
I can only assume that I can change it from decimal coordinate system to mgrs
Awesome video, great instructions! Stupid question, I know we need paper maps and it kinda defeats the purpose, but is there a way to dump your custom maps into, lets say a hand held Garmin? Just for fun here....
There's a plugin for QGIS called GarminCustomMaps that might do what you're asking. I've never used it so I can't vouch for it.
@@EvanDerickson Thanks, might have to check that out.👍
I need to create a simple map and drop pins in multiple cities to demonstrate a route .. Berlin, Germany to Vilnius, Lithuania to Minsk, Soviet Union ... I downloaded QGIS, but got stuck when I tried "Search QMS". Hoping someone can help me.
How would you generate sections to a large area of osm data so you could work on individual grids in the layout. I would eventually like those layouts to be printed and have them all align after printing them.
Can the maps made this way be used by ATAK CIV? Thank you for any feedback.
Yes, export them to any format supported by ATAK (Geotiff, MBTiles, KMZ...).
@@jonny_wright Thank you Jonathan. I'm learning ATAC CIV and uploading better maps is a high priority for me. I appreciate your feedback. Have a great day.
Any way to lay an MGRS grid over this?
Is there a forum I can ask questions on? I'm having trouble once I get to the page properties and sizing to the paper. It forces all the print so tiny its illedgible when I try to set the map back to 1:24000 even though I already had it to 1:24000 before bringing map to the formatting screen for printing.
Right-click on the "layer" where your text is then click on "properties" and go to "labels" there should be an option for font scaling.
everything work but the selection tool in print layout. Nothing happens and i have to re-scale my map in the properties tab
also ive noticed that the google roads text stays tiny no matter what scale you make the map, is there a solution?
how can i make the letters and words on the map itself print clearer? does increasing the export dpi help?
can you use this off line?
Is it possible to use UTM coordinates?
This is a bit off topic, but it would be an interesting video or two. If you were to set up an intel operation let’s, say in occupied territory, how would you go about doing it?
Can these maps be created and then used with ATAK?
Can you do a conformal (?) transformation to make the compass and map align?
QGIS can use any transformation to reproject the map to any projection including ones suitable to work with a compass. In the bottom right there's a text with "EPSG:...". If you click there you will get a dialogue with all available projections you can use.
For anyone not used to work with projections a warning, coordinate reference systems and projections/transformations is kind of complex...
@@KlasKarlsson Yes it is. I have seen all the math that went into it. I had looked into why Mercador was still used and saw all the math that went into projections. Taking me all the way back to Calc 3
Does it work with mgrs
Anyone know a decent program for making KML/KMZ from spreadsheet data?
BTW OSM is not google it is a open source project.
Pretty awesome as long as one has electricity and internet. How about basic map making for an electricity challenged world? Let's say all I had was a magnetic compass, a piece of paper, and a pencil. I'll even throw in an inclinometer. How would I proceed to make a map of my surroundings? How would I estimate elevations, and distances? Not ragging on the video, just pointing out some "considerations", as electricity may not always be available...
See, I grew up in a pre-electronic age. Calculators didn't exist until I was halfway through high school. I know how to make maps using mechanical means, few do.
A Brunton Compass is a good tool.
For me, learning how to estimate 500' within a reasonable range helped.
Inverse tangent of 45 degrees is .707, which are both the horizontal and vertical lengths. You can kinda do your vertical distances arithmetically from there off of horizontal distance and the angle.
I'm talking estimates.
Much of the electrically challenged 3rd world is using, QGIS to do everything from tracking forest fires, and other environmental concerns to planning roads, sewer systems, electrical grids etc. QGIS easily runs on low power laptop and is cross platform, so you don't even have to buy a copy of Windows. I have it successfully running stable on a surface go with a Pentium processor. When your done making the map print it and use your compass. This video doesn't even scratch the surface of what this program can do once you start using vector data. Trying to map hundreds or thousands of data points over a large area isn't practical on paper. Right now I'm working on a map for a 90 mile bicycle event I known I have 100's of data points on the map just wouldn't be possible for me to do that on paper.
@@markcarpenter3600 Awesome for you, but what happens if the electricity and internet go away and you need to make some detailed maps? That is my point.
@@JW-fq1pp Buy a road atlas.
@@richavic4520 I'll absolutely NEVER buy another Brunton Compass. I ordered direct from them with the compass being defective on arrival, combined with horrible customer service. All I wanted was a replacement compass. It ultimately took me filing a credit card dispute to get the RMA and refund. Cammenga Lensatic or Suunto are who I recommend now.
Have you found any particularly good paper on which to print maps?
Magnetic N is 8 degrees east of True N?
Been moving a lot lately. Also varies with Lat.
Depending on latitude.
Depends on your location. It isn't just latitude that causes it to vary, but longitude as well. The magnetic poles have been moving substantially the last few years (enough that they've had to update far ahead of schedule) - so you need to check for the area you are building the map for.
@@CaptainSeamus exactly. It varies by quite a bit.