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Some arguments about use of AI just seem backwards thinking, if you use computers, use a car, fly around the world, build a house you are already causing harm for the environment even if you think its minimal. AI is a lot more? Probably but we are not going to use horse again
Sad to see some people being so hard on AI contributions and somehow just shutting this down very hard.
I get it, you think manual coding is better and AI is slop but that is just not going to change the fact that coding will never go back to before AI.
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QGIS is enforcing a no AI code policy, at all, I’m not a fan
Sounds to me like an open invite for someone to make a fork and make what Omarchy is doing with Linux, completely embarrassing LLMs and running with it
It saddens me a bit honestly. At tue same time, I’ve noticed that I don’t use QGIS anymore. I’ve had it docked for years and removed it a few weeks ago, completely uninstalled it, because for most visualisation work I’ve basically made my own tools that help me look at images based on my preferences of working. I would like QGIS and similar software to embrace the world we’re in today and make it easier to build things like that on top of what already exists but that’s a radical change right now
We’re in weird times for software
github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhance…
Tried out web.rustgis.app today, really interesting and a good option. Maybe I will see if we could try to build some aviation plugin just for fun
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This is not correct for sure, but it is amazing how much an LLM can do with some input and this is the one without restrictions & clear rules.
I remember when we tried to do this a decade ago at my old job and it was almost impossible with just ghostscript/imagemagick
So, I think I may have found a use case to learn about agents rather than bounce back and forth with LLM.
In theory, if I set the rules and environments to review instrument approach charts for example. I can let this thing run and provide me feedback.
Might have a go at this
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Map hack: one of the best ways to increase legibility of labels and annotations on busy backgrounds is to create subtle halos made from the background itself.
Select all text layers -> expand selection -> feather -> soft blur -> place beneath text
Completed training using QGIS for aviation today, had a chance to introduce Model Designer and Atlas. Colleagues impressed with it.
Not just learning software. Improving workflows.
The thing is that AI can do reasonably well what someone starting out can't. You need to know exactly what you will use as prompt and guide it.
If you are an expert in your field it won't probably replace you yet, but it is replacing all of those entry level ppl.
Most qgis plugins target the map canvas, we have specific parts of our aviation plugins that are meant to be used with layouts.
A dedicated menu in the layout section has been added to qAeroChart
I have made the visual process, can do this manually. It is just now time to automate by coding it.
What coding has taught me is to have a repeatable process (besides saving time). When I look back at things I have done, I have gotten to the same result doing 10 different ways
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One of the hardest things I did over the past few months was to build a course to teach agentic coding techniques for geospatial problems. After endless hours of testing, refining, and writing, the full course is now launched - free and open to everyone➡️courses.spatialthoughts.com/…
