Let’s take a closer on the distribution / proximity of settlements with respect to forest regions. Download “natural” = “wood”…
In this module we will download human settlements for the Himachal region from Open Street Maps and play around with…
In this module we will play around with visualizations of Himalayan lakes and glaciers downloaded from Open Street Maps. Lakes…
In this chapter we will explore the powerful geometry processing capabilities of QGIS on various Himalayan features. These capabilities will…
We are now able to visualize all mountain peaks (1958), passes (1393) and alpine lakes (1900) located in the Western…
In this module we will query and visualize Alpine lakes from Open Street Maps in QGIS. Lakes are defined in…
In this module we will retrieve all Himalayan passes and peaks from Open Street Maps and visualize them appropriately in…
QGIS is a powerful GIS software. In Chapter 6 we learned how to import and visualize geo-tagged alpine lakes, query…
In this module we will export the Survey map with contours in maptiles format which can be used for offline…
A Digital Elevation Model (DEM) is a representation of the bare ground (bare earth) topographic surface of the Earth excluding trees, buildings,…