Emboldened, he added the plugin to show population density along the floodplain. He used the Print Layout designer—a feature he’d once despised but now respected like a trusted compass. He added a north arrow, a scale bar, and a legend. He set the map grid to 500-meter intervals. The council loved grids.

At 4:15 PM, he exported the map as a PDF and a GeoPackage, just in case. He hit and gave it a final name: "Final_Flood_Risk_2026.qgz."

First, he dragged in the base layers: a messy shapefile of the river basin and a satellite image from the QuickMapServices plugin. The satellite view was crisp, a patchwork of green fields and serpentine streams. He set the project CRS to EPSG:3857, the standard for web mapping, then quickly corrected it to a local projected system—EPSG:27700 for the UK’s Ordnance Survey. Accuracy was everything.

Prev. project Secret Invasion
Next project The Creator

Get in touch

If you're planning a project, get in touch - we'd love to hear from you.

Contact Us