Geobulletin alpha

Amazing styling in QGIS 2.6 

Since QGIS 2.6 was released with a lot of new features and functions I’ve been testing it sporadic and have come to realise that the quality and functionality of symbol styling and labelling is so high that ESRI ArcMap no longer can match it. Honestly I haven’t tested the 10.3 version of ArcMap, so my experience is based on previous versions. Here I’ll use an example to highlight some of the extensive possibilities offered in QGIS. I’ll be using “live” [...]

Loch Ness monster cited by some US schools as evidence that evolution is myth 

Thousands of American school pupils are to be taught that the Loch Ness monster is real – in an attempt by religious teachers to disprove Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.Pupils attending privately-run Christian schools in the southern state of Louisiana will learn from textbooks next year, which claim Scotland’s most famous mythological beast is a living creature.Thousands of children are to receive publicly-funded vouchers enabling them to attend the schools – which follow a [...]

Diet in Oviraptorosaurs VII – Measuring the Mandible: Part 2, Labelling 

Stepping aside from the issue of actual measurement, I continue with the last post in this series with a discussion on what and how to call the elements we are measuring. As may have been indicated before, I am a func-morph kinda guy. That’s functional morphology, and is intimately associated with the argument that expressions