Video of QGIS Mapmaking Workshop now available

[Joseph Berkovitz]

The video from my recent workshop on making charts with QGIS is now available here:

 

[Ken]

Not totally applicable to kayaking but I just found this two GIS familities that are fun to play with.  The latter may have some info apropos to kayaking.

http://maps.massgis.state.ma.us/map_ol/oliver.php
http://maps.massgis.state.ma.us/map_ol/moris.php

[Joyce Carpenter]

Joe, can you post a link to your instructions? Also, if I can't find it there, how'd you get the current arrows you had yesterday?

 

[Joseph Berkovitz]

Here is the link to the full documentation:

https://joeberkovitz.github.io/qgis-nautical/
 

the current arrows were generated using a new feature that I have not publicly released yet. 

[Joyce Carpenter]

Thanks for the link.

If you want an exercise to play with, how about the currents in Eastern Bay, off of Great Wass, near high tide? Some of us were paddling to our put-in north of the fish pens, expecting to ride the tide, but encountered some current going the opposite direction.

[Joseph Berkovitz]

There are no NOAA current stations in that whole Jonesport region other than the two at either end of Moosabec Reach. The map features only summarize the same station data that you can already get from the various NOAA web pages. 

that whole area is very complicated. The currents run almost west/east near Jonesport which is a reflection of what is going on further east on the Bold Coast. That could have an effect on the north side of Eastern Bay. 
 

What did you expect, why did you expect it, and what did you find instead?

[EEL]

My very limited experience is that given strong currents in area there are rather strong eddies if not multiple streams in opposing directions so not easy to find helpful currents.

Ed  Lawson