What question or problem were you trying to address, and why is it important?
Is there any data available in the area?
Where is it coming from, and is there potentially more at the source?
How did you use QGreenland in your work?
When having projects in locations that are unknown to us where we, for example, need data for planning purposes.
What did QGreenland enable you to do that you couldn’t do before?
For example, hydrographic data (water depths) can be difficult to find on its own, but QGreenland has it.
What would you tell someone considering using QGreenland?
Don’t rely too much on the QGIS Project itself. That is, to me, just a representation of data. Instead, try to go one level deeper at use as an entry point for locating data sources.
About the contributor
Frederik Hass is the Head of Geodata and Mapping with the Asiaq - Greenland Survey.
A case study by Frederik Hass
Use type(s): Field planning; In-field awareness; Data exploration; Finding out what data exists in an area | Discipline(s): Surveying and Mapping
Who are you and what do you do?
I am part of a public company that carries out both public mapping and commercial projects. The projects include UAV flight, general maps, satellite data analysis, bathymetry, ground surveys, etc.
How did you use QGreenland?
I consider myself to be an experienced user of different GIS software, and, therefore, the data in the QGreenland package has more interest to me than the actual QGreenland QGIS project. I mostly use the project and data package to see what available data there is in some specific area. And then I use the data in my own project or go directly to the source to get more information.