Author Archives: Jan-Willem van Aalst

Het beste uit Top10NL, BAG en OSM combineren in QGIS

For some time now I’ve been using the BAG buildings in QGIS as an alternative to the Top10NL buildings. The BAG buildings are more accurate, after all. This is not to disqualify the Top10NL, on the contrary: each geo data set has its own merits. The Top10NL is unbeatable regarding terrain details. As for the […]

België en Duitsland in RD met QGIS

De Basisregistratie Topografie (BRT/Top10NL) houdt ongeveer een kilometer na de landsgrens al op. Velen, bijvoorbeeld brandweermensen, hebben behoefte aan meer kaartbeeld over de landsgrens. Die kaartdata is er, en nog kosteloos ook. De Open Street Map (OSM) van de Europese landen is als Shapefiles te downloaden, o.a. via de Duitse GeoFabrik, http://download.geofabrik.de/europe.html. Ze wordt aangeboden in […]

BAG gebruiksfuncties op Top10NL in QGIS

The building contours of BAG objects are much more precise than the standard built-up block shapes of the Top10NL topographic data set (aside from the fact that the BAG is more up-to-date than the Top10NL). The “BAG objects & addresses” data set also contains the usage function(s) of buildings. Using the BAG, it’s possible to […]

Meer combi's Top10NL en AHN25 in QGIS 1.8

As of July 2012, Dutch Geo-office Kadaster has published an update of the Top10NL topographic GIS data set. Areas of central-NL + Rotterdam have been updated. Some ‘holes’ in the terrain have now been corrected, and the new industrial port area “Maasvlakte 2” (under construction) is now visible for the first time. The data set […]

Een kleurenschema voor de TOP10NL

When opening a geo-file for the first time in QGIS, random colors are assigned to the points, lines, and polygons. QGIS offers excellent features to design and use color style schemes. This article describes how to do this, with the objective as follows: I was just seven years old when someone gave me the special […]