Creating a QGIS-Style (qml-file) with an R-Script

How to get from a txt-file with short names and labels to a QGIS-Style (qml-file)?
I used the below R-script to create a style for this legend table where I copy-pasted the parts I needed to a txt-file, like for the WRB-FULL (WRB-FULL: Full soil code of the STU from the World Reference Base for Soil Resources). The vector data to which I applied the style is freely available at ESDAC - you just need to submit a form to get access to the data. BTW, thanks to a helping hand on SO.

You can find the QGIS-styler script in theBioBucket-Repository on GitHub.

Rasterize CORINE Landcover 2006 Seamless Vector Data with OGR-rasterize

Following up my latest postings (HERE & HERE) on Corine Landcover I'll share how to rasterize this data at a desired resolution with OGR rasterize:

cd D:/GIS_DataBase/CorineLC/shps_app_and_extr/

# grab extracted and appended / merged file, created previously:
myfile=extr_and_app.dbf

name=${myfile%.dbf}

# rasterize y- and x-resolution = 50 map units: 
gdal_rasterize -a code_06 -tr 50 50 -l $name $myfile D:/GIS_DataBase/CorineLC/shps_app_and_extr/clc_tirol_raster_50.tif

Processing CORINE Land Cover 2006 Seamless Vector Data with OGR/GDAL's ogr2ogr and BASH

Lately I posted about using R to programmatically download all (43 zip-files) seamless 2006 vector data of CORINE Land Cover (see here). In this follow-up I share two bash-scripts with OGR/GDAL's ogr2ogr which I used to extract features by extent (Austria/Tyrol) and to combine all seperate shp-files into one by appending the dbfs. The style I used for the map is also available with german labels HERE.

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# name: extr_by_extent.sh
# Author: Kay Cichini
# Date: 30-04-2013
# Purpose: Extract shp-file features in {infolder} by input extent 
#          and save new shp-files to {outfolder} that is created on the fly
# Extent Tirol in EPSG:3035 - ETRS89 / ETRS-LAEA
# from D:\GIS_DataBase\GIS_Tirol\Tirol_Extent_LEAE-ETRS.shp
# xMin,yMin 4328054.73,2617730.23 : xMax,yMax 4547691.32,2739524.35

infolder=D:/GIS_DataBase/CorineLC/shps
outfolder=D:/GIS_DataBase/CorineLC/shps_extracted

ext='4328054.73 2617730.23 4547691.32 2739524.35'

ogr2ogr -overwrite $outfolder -spat $ext $infolder
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# name: app_shps.sh
# Author: Kay Cichini
# Date: 30-04-2013
# Purpose: Append shp-files to newly created file

# working directory with shp-files to be appended into one file
mydir=D:/GIS_DataBase/CorineLC/shps_extracted
cd $mydir

# directory where final shp-file will be saved
mydir_final=D:/GIS_DataBase/CorineLC/shps_app_and_extr
mkdir $mydir_final

# get dbfs, which are the actual files to which append the data to
declare -a dbfs=(*.dbf)

# loop through dbfs in dir and append each to the dbf of 
# 'extr_and_app.shp' that will be created by ogr2ogr on the fly 
# and saved to {mydir_final}
for dbf in ${dbfs[@]}; do
  echo appending $dbf to $mydir_final/extr_and_app.dbf
  ogr2ogr -append $mydir_final/extr_and_app.dbf $dbf
done
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