Monthly Archives: April 2012

geocoder.ca’s excellent database

geocoder.ca provides a crowdsourced postal code geocoder under the ODbL. You can download the database as CSV directly. Here’s a bash script to convert that text file into a (very large) point shapefile: Though the script is a bit Unix-centric, … Continue reading

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Georeferencing QGIS output rasters

Some of the design packages I rely on use very crude GIS facilities. In fact, all they can support is a georeferenced raster as a background image, so it’s more of a rough map than GIS. It helps if these … Continue reading

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