I’ve used the 15′ quads for Pittsylvania County, VA, imported them into CAD and placed a symbol over each structure and organized them in layers and saved them as shapefiles. Then I’ve pulled them into QGIS and can query those. But what I want to be able to do is to work with Census data, economic data and other info that I’ve accumulated that is or will be tabular and stored in Excel and/or Filemaker Pro for use. What I’d really like is to see how all of that can be mashed and bashed into some form that QGIS can use to pull out subsets of things.
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kevinmdonaghy
June 26, 2012 at 5:30 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Hi Lyle,
I’m not using QGIS, which version are you using? I’ll download and start getting familiar with it – concerning census data are you focused on USA or UK? the excel files go into Arcmap in a template that can be based on block groups, blocks, and tracts, this data can then be distributed in a chloropleth basically taking the vectortopologic data into a raster, then you could do models which wouold be a cool way to examine income, economy, the patterns you’ve mentioned in other post. I’ve never used Filemaker Pro – but i know that some students were using it as the database engine for their GIS and could also establish inter-relational databases that included images, i think they were orienting their research to web-based browsing of their sites, i was much newer to GIS at the time, choking on GRASS, and was not up to speed on the discussion, but let me know which version of QGIS you’re on and i’ll see if i can’t ramp up on it and make a quick model of the vector USA census into a basic raster, can you send me a shapefile of your georectified quad or 7.5″ ??
Best wishes,
kev
PS – my interest is in voxels, so any help is appreciated, since this is new for me
kevinmd
August 2, 2012 at 3:55 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Dear Lyle,
I downloaded shape files for you and will bring with me to the session next week.
Best wishes,
kev
whafford
August 9, 2012 at 12:10 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
GIS and any way to relate spatial data to lists of artifacts and info on them as well as other information such as field photographs, publications of various parts of a site, etc. would be a great thing to discuss. I am creating a huge database of everything from the site of Ur in Iraq and need to link it to maps of the site. Should I also try to put these sites into google earth and work in kml? At any rate, a session on the options on how to do such things would be terrific.
Lyle Browning
August 9, 2012 at 9:24 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Dominic Powelsland of the UK West Heslerton Parish Project did that in the 1980’s with his own created version using a 500k item Anglo-Saxon cemetery and could call up profiles, drawings and whatnot and do it in 3D. Way out of my price range at the time though;) Colonial Williamsburg used it for a while.
Lyle
kevinmdonaghy
August 10, 2012 at 1:04 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
OK, i apologize, i meant to post a session and have been at the airport since 330 having been delayed cancelled by weather, Concerning GIS i am hoping we can develop the photogrammetric discussion – i have worked with Rolli-metric software, sorry for typo’s battery dying, at airport, ok, but also my interest is in not only spatial distributions over the site but distance routes and paths of resource sourcing, trade, and technological development, Lyle, i got the shapefiles for you on your site area so we should have some stuff to play with
Sincerely,
kev
Ethan Gruber
August 10, 2012 at 3:24 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
No problem, proposals can be added during the scheduling block tomorrow morning. Hope the rest of your travel goes well!