Spatial Modelling Solutions
Engineering Services in Cape Town

Spatial Modelling Solutions or S.M.S. was setup in Cape Town in 2008, tourism, town planning, geology, hydrology, agriculture, 3D analysis and 3D modelling.Our clients are from a variety of sectors including the fields of engineering, mapping, and has been serving the GIS needs of a wide range of clients in the private and public sectors since.  The core services offered by S.M.S. include GIS, law and property development.Although providing GIS support is a primary goal S.M.S. aims to empower organizations by helping them implement their own GIS.  We are committed to providing long term GIS solutions.

From providing purely a mapping service to assisting clients develop their own GIS, SMS offers a range of GIS services to suit your organization's spatial modelling requirements. The best way to answer that might require a bit of background and a history lesson. Part of our commitment to providing long term GIS solutions is through GIS training. The training is broken down into 2 modules and is conducted in workshop sessions held at the client premises or at our office. Spatial Modelling Solutions or SMS is a small South African GIS firm based in Cape Town. Since 2008 SMS has been providing GIS services to a wide range of clients in the private and public sectors. Our clients are from a variety of sectors including fields in Engineering, Conservation, the Environment, Agriculture, Hydrology, Geology, Town Planning, Tourism, Law and Property Development. Although providing GIS support is a primary goal, Spatial Modelling Solutions also aim to empower organizations by assisting them in implement their own GIS. We are committed to providing long term GIS solutions through training and support. INTRODUCTION This is a brief tutorial for the QGIS Atlas Tool which is a Core plugin in QGIS. We will also link a csv file with population figures to an existing layer. Mapping has been around for a very long time but the idea to use separate map layers and overlay them was first concieved by Ian McHarg in the 1960's. By overlaying different geographical layers, he used map transparencies, McHarg was able to determine the optimal route for a proposed freeway that would have the lowest impact on areas of social importance such as parks and other social facilities. Now days the geographical layers are in digital format. The system to store, organize and manipulate these layers is known as a Geographical Information System (GIS). Simply put it is a computerized information system, managed and administered in order to be capable of holding and using spatial data to describe and analyze places on the Earth's surface. They say a picture is worth a thousand words please visit the SMS project gallery to view a few examples of GIS applications.