Youtube, twitter, and reddit have obviously been in the news a lot recently, but every day business applications also seem to just keep getting worse. Got new PCs at work which means version updates, and pretty much everything we use (autocad, adobe acrobat, and ms office, mainly) all seem to run much slower, despite the computers having substantially higher specs. Love that I can't use any old versions or alternatives because they refuse to grant me admin access.

I love capitalist innovation! Why make things better when you could just make them worse and charge more?

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    i can't really do that without doxxing myself because of the way the course was set up. however, i can list/link the resources we used which have their own documentation. The class was generally self-taught/online, so we relied heavily on existing documentation.

    • QGIS The application for managing, processing, analyzing all geographic data. This is the program to bring all of your data into. That data can then be filtered down to exactly what you need and exported as an image/pdf for web or print.... or you can export just the data set for use in interactive online maps. It's highly versatile so it can be very intimidating at first, but the user community is very helpful. https://qgis.org/
    • Leaflet A JS library for developing mobile friendly interactive maps. Great documentation and the tutorials are strong. https://leafletjs.com/
    • Leaflet-Omnivore plugin For adding the data file generated in QGIS to your leaflet drawn map https://github.com/mapbox/leaflet-omnivore

    data

    • Natural Earth A source of free shapefiles / geographic data sets for administrative boundaries, rivers, lakes, landforms https://www.naturalearthdata.com/
    • OpenStreetMap A map of the world that has tons of data from contributors around the world, which can be downloaded and then used in developing your own maps. https://www.openstreetmap.org/

    there are a lot of tutorials for QGIS, especially for beginners on YouTube. I would recommend starting with something small. Like a map of just your state/province that shows the major rivers and streams, labeled.