Michel Stuyts' blog about GIS, geography and geodata
To autonumber a field to give it a unique number, is something very common in databases like for example PostgreSQL with a Serial field type. But for other kinds of data sources this too can be very handy. Below I give an example of how you can do this in QGIS. It is a way to autonumber in QGIS that can be used for all kinds of vector data sources, so it’s also usable for for example shapefiles.
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Since a couple of years I maintain 4 web pages with lists of WMS, WFS, WMTS and XYZ tile services that contain data for Belgium. When I recently attended the FOSS4G Belgium conference in Brussels, it became clear these web pages are pretty popular with the Dutch speaking GIS folks at the conference. The WMS page was even on one of the slides for the keynote by OGC president Bart De Lathouwer.
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