Sunday, February 7, 2021

Cool things one can do with QGIS: Animated Tracks

QGIS is one of the fastest developing and widely used open source GIS platform out there. It offers some really cool GIS capabilities. One of the cool things to do is to create animated track of your awesome adventures.  I was able to log my bike ride track using an app on the phone, which I later used to create this amazing animation.  


Animated Bike Ride Track

As you can see we wasted some time at several pit stops waiting for our friends to join in and one major halt for snacks and tea before we zig-zag into the mountains at the end of the trip. This animation itself tells us the story of our ride. how cool is this? 


I learnt this QGIS trick courtesy of  Ujaval Gandhi  who has generously shared his high quality QGIS course material for free. 





  

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