Another overlooked skill in the digital age. Thank you, S2.

@setoste

9 ай бұрын

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.

As a geography and GIS student, I appreciate this. Hopefully it inspires more people to become geographers!

@chuckfinley3152

2 жыл бұрын

As a graduate with gis and geography degrees, I say be an engineer lol /s

@tovaris9492

2 жыл бұрын

@@chuckfinley3152 What brings you to say that?

@MC-zr7hl

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@tonyyy117

2 жыл бұрын

@@MC-zr7hl do you free lance?

@serialcarpens290

2 жыл бұрын

@@chuckfinley3152 Money and opportunities

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.

Brilliant..never knew this existed. Going to use this to teach ~50 Boy Scouts orienteering skills (and now map-making skills)

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.

@fredwupkensoppel8949

2 жыл бұрын

3:46 Still not Google.

@rustym.shackelford5546

2 жыл бұрын

@@fredwupkensoppel8949 I knew he was making a mistake by saying you guys are Google. But I'm like "whatever".

@fredwupkensoppel8949

2 жыл бұрын

@@rustym.shackelford5546 Aparrently you're not "whatever" enough to not comment about your whatever-ness.

@rustym.shackelford5546

2 жыл бұрын

@@fredwupkensoppel8949 Lol. I can't help but to comment. Leads to interesting convos. But yeah - I am sure S2 will correct this mistake.

@tumblingdown8612

2 жыл бұрын

@@fredwupkensoppel8949 lol

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.

@erwin643

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@jerseyshoredroneservices225

2 жыл бұрын

@@erwin643 I've noticed the same thing on many channels. Comments with links disappear.

@Diamonddavej

2 жыл бұрын

"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.

@Mr0rris0

10 ай бұрын

Good tips folks Definitely the links The more off platform the worster Maybe sometimes or in someplaces you can link to KZread 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

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.

@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.

@iaintshootinmister8754

2 жыл бұрын

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.

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

Nice to know about this software and the quick "how to" THANK YOU for all the good stuff!

Absolutely love this kind of instructional video for useful things. Keep em coming.

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.

@TheBoatPirate

Жыл бұрын

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?

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.

@highdesertdrew1844

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@mattfleming86

2 жыл бұрын

@@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!

I actually found qgis a year ago for a documentary project I've been doing. Very useful for getting all kinds of KMZ and KML data edited.

I've been searching this for a while thanks! I hope you'll make one with more detailed map example

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

It's very likely you can rotate the latitude labels 90 degrees to make it take up less space

Thank you for this tutorial. I see so many applications for this. Hunting pheasant will be mine. Looking forward to the next vid.

Thanks I have been struggling to fined descant mapping for my area. so spent a productive afternoon making some thanks to your video

Now... this is exactly what I needed! Thank You so much man.

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.

@waylonk2453

2 жыл бұрын

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.

Fantastic topic! Highly undervalued, but extremely necessary. Great job!

@user-zt2vf6vx7p

2 жыл бұрын

Damn bro I see you everywhere lol I used to think you were Shipley's channel after seeing you on GBRS

@DJTheMetalheadMercenary

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

Sick, I'm basically an 18f now

Great info. Thank you for the walkthrough.

Great Info

You should make a basic land nav course that would be awesome

Thank you, this program is beyond cool.

Fantastic! Thanks for posting this.

Outstanding tutorial!

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/

LOVE this application! Also enjoy hearing that heavy duty keyboard, is it milspec?

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.)

Very good tutorial! thank you

Awesome video! I used to use Delorme and Garmin software, but this is an awesome alternative.

Thank you for the information.

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!

We looked at GIS a bit for my real estate college courses but it was all very high level.

Free and open source, nice.

as a land surveyor's son, this pleases me greatly.

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.

Totally gonna use this for my Pen and Paper Campaign. :D

Can you make a short video of your preset for landnav maps in the wilderness?

very nice, impressive. Please make a geological map in QGIS

Thank you, excellent vid, made one already, can't seem to find MGRS grid though in version Zurich, how can this be added?

Awesome resource thank you! MGRS all the way.

Ok this is useful. Thank you.

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?

@gutsnav8641

2 ай бұрын

Look at Klas Karlsson's most recent videos on the subject

Thank you 😊

Lovin maps!

Do you know if it's possible to add a military grid reference system?

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.

Awesome video! Hopefully there is a way to bring in waypoints like KML data etc.

@KlasKarlsson

2 жыл бұрын

If you have a KML of KMZ file you can simply drag and drop it onto the map.

Guess i can stop making my maps in excel or paint. AWESOME!

Amy way to use this in ATAK, and able to do a whole state ?

Okay, this is actually pretty useful. Now I don't need to print screen google maps for my TTRPG assets.

Can you add grid lines. As in MGRS

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.

How would you set the grid up for MGRS?

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.

@isaacsierhuis4927

2 жыл бұрын

yes, we still do, there's some new stuff (digital gear in vehicles) but yes we still use paper maps

@sugma3475

Жыл бұрын

We all still learn paper maps before touching any of the new stuff

@schlirf

Жыл бұрын

@@sugma3475 Most Excellent!

how can i make the letters and words on the map itself print clearer? does increasing the export dpi help?

Could you maybe make a video on different ways to make maps for civTAK, so that it can be used without Internet connection?

Comment for the algorithm

@SuperCulverin

2 жыл бұрын

Hello, frens! Don't forget to like and subscribe too!

Would GPS notes be used, for Arty plotting fire mussions?

Is is possible to do maps with MGRS vice lat/long/degrees? I haven't downloaded the program yet so I don't know.

Any tips for making the declination plugin window bigger? It's 100% unusable when it pops up on my computer. TIA

This is great. Out of curiosity is it possible to port this over to ATAK?

@highdesertdrew1844

2 жыл бұрын

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.

When I saw the blacksquare I was like oh his computer has artifacts... then I realized there is a reason that was placed there

Please do more ATAK videos now, got a computer to use!!!

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....

@EvanDerickson

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@elconquistador932

2 жыл бұрын

@@EvanDerickson Thanks, might have to check that out.👍

Dude, you're like the Bob Ross of cartography.

does qgis have COGO functions like ESRI's arcview/arcmap?

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.

@KitOkunari

Жыл бұрын

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.

Is it possible to use UTM coordinates?

I can only assume that I can change it from decimal coordinate system to mgrs

How do you do MGRS grids?

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 you do a conformal (?) transformation to make the compass and map align?

@KlasKarlsson

2 жыл бұрын

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...

@canibezeroun1988

2 жыл бұрын

@@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

Any way to lay an MGRS grid over this?

Can the maps made this way be used by ATAK CIV? Thank you for any feedback.

@jonny_wright

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, export them to any format supported by ATAK (Geotiff, MBTiles, KMZ...).

@cmdrcorvuscoraxnevermore3354

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

Can these maps be created and then used with ATAK?

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

@markcarpenter3600

2 жыл бұрын

I use QGIS to make maps, but I believe QGIS does have CAD functions.

As a land surveyor, I can tell you for a fact that GIS stands for Get... It... Surveyed... lol

Have you found any particularly good paper on which to print maps?

I'm sure that qgis can process DTED, but is DTED something you even want to bother importing into your maps?

Memory aid for magnetic declination adjustment: "east is least"

Anyone know a decent program for making KML/KMZ from spreadsheet data?

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.

CalTOPO is worth the cost for the best version, group funding goes a long way.

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.

@X4Alpha4X

2 жыл бұрын

lord forbid batteries from ever dying right?

I noticed in your description of this video that you left a disclaimer saying not to violate any laws while doing this. Is there laws restricting the making of maps?

@KitOkunari

Жыл бұрын

China has laws restricting creation of map data or surveying, you are can even get arrested and be sued. They do this because they consider it a security treat to their nation if an adversary has access to the layout of their cities and roads. So you need to acquire a license, use their datum projection that calculates coordinates randomly misaligned up to 1km away from real satellite coordinates.

@thelistener1268

Жыл бұрын

Like any tool they're ambivalent with their powers and can be used for good and evil. Maybe you're making maps of your local forest to teach your boy scout troop. Or planning a raid.

everything work but the selection tool in print layout. Nothing happens and i have to re-scale my map in the properties tab

@pb6839

Жыл бұрын

also ive noticed that the google roads text stays tiny no matter what scale you make the map, is there a solution?

can you use this off line?

Open Street Map is not from Google. It is a 100% free and independent crowd sourced project

Does this program harvest data like many other "free" programs?

@christinecortese9973

2 жыл бұрын

Don’t know but I bet it does.

@chingyeungwong1507

2 жыл бұрын

QGIS is a open source tool, not sure if it will acquire your data

@fredwupkensoppel8949

2 жыл бұрын

@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.

@KlasKarlsson

2 жыл бұрын

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.

Does it work with mgrs