There is a good tutorial using QGIS to create a heat map here: http://qgis.spatialthoughts.com/2012/07/tutorial-making-heatmaps-using-qgis-and.html
I haven't tried it yet though. regards, Steven On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 12:44 PM, David Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > A friend has come to me with an interesting-sounding request, and I just > wondered how feasible it might be. > He has a database of UK postcodes and some measurement or other (not sure > what yet) and would like to create a heat map. > Neither of us are techies, but I've been contributing to OSM for a year > now and am familiar with JOSM and (to a lesser extent) QGIS. > How difficult a project is likely to be? (bearing in mind I'd be doing it > in my spare time as a favour and for my personal interest) > > I assume you'd first have to convert the postcodes to lat/lon? Then I'd > need a rendering tool for the "heat" colours, and then a simple base map on > which to overlay it (just thinking out loud now). > > It sounds like the sort of thing it'd be useful to have a tutorial for. > If one exists, great! If not, and if I'm successful, I might have a go at > writing one. > > Thanks in advance, > > David. (user Pgd81) > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > -- www.stevenhorner.com <http://www.stevenhorner.com> @stevenhorner <http://twitter.com/stevenhorner> 0191 645 2265 stevenhorner
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