Ian's random blog

How I created a spare monitor I’m big on reuse, repair and recycling which is one of the reasons I volunteer at Glasgow Repair Cafe – I blame being exposed to “Stig of the Dump” at an impressionable age.

It appears that I haven’t posted anything here for a year!

I recently needed to implement a way of showing the uncertainty of a marker in a web map (the final application isn’t ready yet) and while I found a bunch of tutorials and stackoverflow answers that covered parts of this I couldn’t find a single page on h…

I came across a brilliant thread on Mastodon by Sarah Dal discussing how she worked out what the most remote post box in the UK was.

Adding a Spell Check to QGIS (Or what to do on a rainy bank holiday in Glasgow) This Monday was a local bank holiday in Glasgow (or at least the university) as a remnant of when the whole town took a train to Blackpool in the same two weeks so that the sh…

Is GeoJSON a good spatial data format?

Review of FOSS4G 2023 Introduction FOSS4G 2023 was held in Prizren, Kosovo and there were 800+ attendees from 120+ countries.

Drawing a line on a GeoTools Map As anyone following the dismal news out of the UK recently will know we had some sort of royal extravaganza down south in England this weekend, so with nothing better to do (and an extra day off) I decided to do some playi…

I use open source tools nearly all the time and I’m always on the look out for new and useful tools to help make my life easier, so in this post I’m going to list some of the ones I’ve found recently.

Moving If you’ve been following me on twitter you may have noticed that I’ve gone a bit quiet there, and possibly other places that you expected to see me like stackexchange and the GeoServer lists.