Points North GIS & UAV Blog

Weclome to the Points North GIS & UAV blog about GIS, UAVs (Drones) and other experiences I have had with related software and working in the industry. If you would like to checkout my portfolio take a look at the Points North GIS website.

My goal with this blog is to explore various software and programming libraries that I have found useful throughout my career. I hope to help readers discover new ways to approach their projects, expose them to some open source solutions that can help to cut costs or possibly add to developer communities. I will also share some tips and tricks I have found using some of the more popular software such as ArcGIS, QGIS, Pix4D, Leaflet, MapServer plus many others.

I encourage readers to send me feedback or questions through my online form on the main website. If there is an area of interest that you would like me to write about or if you have contributions for let me know as well! I soon be adding a comments section to each article to make it easier to contribute feedback, but for know please use the form.

Copy Features between Layers - ArcGIS Pro
Published: Aug. 25, 2021
Author: Zackary King

Tags: Tutorial, ESRI, ArcGIS, ArcGIS Pro

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Best Mouse for GIS and Productivity - 2020
Published: Oct. 24, 2020
Author: Zackary King

Tags: Review, Productivity

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How To Calculate Surface/Cut Volume QGIS - Basic
Published: Nov. 23, 2019
Author: Zackary King

Tags: Digital Elevation Model, Tutorial, QGIS, Open Source, DEM, DSM, LiDAR

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Geodjango-GDAL Setup Windows 10
Published: June 20, 2020
Author: Zackary King

Tags: Django, GeoDjango, Tutorial, Open Source, Python, GDAL, OSGEO

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DEM from LiDAR Using Open Source Software - Tutorial
Published: Jan. 19, 2019
Author: Zackary King

Tags: Digital Elevation Model, Tutorial, QGIS, Open Source, DEM, DSM, LiDAR, Point Cloud

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Viewing Point Clouds - QGIS
Published: March 11, 2021
Author: Zackary King

Tags: Tutorial, QGIS, Open Source, LiDAR, Point Cloud

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How To Calculate Surface/Cut Volume QGIS - Advanced
Published: Oct. 14, 2019
Author: Zackary King

Tags: Digital Elevation Model, Tutorial, QGIS, Open Source, DSM, LiDAR, PDAL, Point Cloud

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Digital Elevation Model using ArcGIS Pro - Tutorial
Published: Feb. 26, 2019
Author: Zackary King

Tags: Digital Elevation Model, Tutorial, DEM, DSM, LiDAR, Point Cloud, ESRI, ArcGIS, ArcGIS Pro

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10 Best Features of QGIS 3
Published: Jan. 29, 2019
Author: Zackary King

Tags: Review

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