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Talking with Tuent’s people

This week has been published in Directions Magazine an interesting interview with Ernesto Ballesteros from Tuent company, which in just 6 questions bring valuable content to the geospatial community. Tuent is an innovative service that among other things, offers the possibility of territorial dashboard mount. It does not occupy a lot turn for them to place online maps, integrated to ...

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CD Only for Engineering Premium 2010

On the occasion of their fifth birthday, Soloingenieria.net portal has prepared some strategies for growth, sustainability and dissemination which have drawn our attention this morning. The first is the willingness of the CD known as CD Only for Engineering Premium 2010, consisting of a collection of the best works that for 5 years have been provided to the web. This ...

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Draw on line on Google Maps

Let’s imagine that we need to send a client a sketch map so he can view it online or in his GPS Navigator. For example, if we have a parcel for sale with the path to get there and its road’s indications. Another example could be an area of the MODIS satellite view from that day that we hope to ...

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A Look at ArcGIS 10

It has been mentioned that by June of 2010 will be available ArcGIS 10, which as we see will be a significant milestone recognizing ESRI level position in the geospatial field. Already in forums and other places it has been commented a lot, and surely from here to the User Conference in July, we’ll know much more. At common question ...

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Google Maps improves its performance

Google has released a new beta version of its map browser, with quite interesting tools. In this case, to enable it, we must apply click the New! link placed on the right of the symbol of laboratory test, and activate the options. The warning is clear, what they are doing is only evidence, so that when the final version will ...

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120 years of National Geographics

A few years ago, a friend who was moving to his country gave me his collection of the National Geographic magazine that, complete and with moths, now takes a good portion of my bookshelf; so when it was announced a digital version for a 160 GB hard disk, I got that mania of not passing it up. After browsing for ...

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Your visitors on Google map

Knowing where visitors come and place them on the map is one of the functions provided by Google Analytics, but there is still no such functionality to display their own maps. The example represents my visitors today, with the drawback that there is no zoom, unless you want to view by country, and those annoying sizes cannot be controlled. However, ...

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Euroatlas: old maps in shp format

It happens to us as maps’ fans that we buy a magazine at the supermarket just for bringing down a large map or atlas to be added to the collection we already have. Encyclopedias have done their best to display interactive maps in Flash or developments that simulate the operation of a geographic information system, but in vector format we ...

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The map of the mobile telephony

Now that the Amazon Kindle has been available to more than 100 countries through the mobile networks EDGE / GPRS or 3G, it becomes interesting to know the coverage these have in the world. To do this, Amazon refers to this map; which I almost swear that’s served with Open Layers. There you have Europe, an enviable, privilege while in ...

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MapinXL, maps from Excel

MapinXL is an application built by ARTICQUE oriented to office people who are not GIS experts but want to impress with colored maps. We spend our lives trying to connect our maps to Excel, conscious that others can not be away from Microsoft solutions, and we’ve done a thousand ways of solving it, importing data, changing formats, creating data connections, ...

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CAD/GIS platforms must go to the GPU

Those of us, who are users of graphical applications, are always expectant that equipments have sufficient working memory. In this, CAD / GIS programs has always been questioned or measured in terms of the time it takes to perform daily activities such as: Spatial Analysis Correction and image registration Deployment of massive data Managing data within a geodatabase Data Service ...

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gvSIG 1.9 stable has arrived. Hooray!

This week has been released the stable version of gvSIG 1.9, from which we had the RC1 in August and the Alpha version in December 2008. This version will possibly make history, because maturity is enough to promote it for municipal use, without being belittled by smallness made by ArcView 3x and not done by gvSIG 1.3. They have faithfully ...

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Caceres’ GIS

This is one of the projects that became a finalist for the award of the Be Inspired 2009 in the category of Cadastre and Land Development. They also made a presentation which was in charge of Luis Antonio Alvarez and Faustino Cordero, with a very good PPS presentation, videos and also a printed map. The day of the award I ...

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Be Inspired 2009 winners

This is the first release in the Be Inspired format, of what once were the Bentley Empowered (BE Awards). From thematic axes they have become to best practices, focusing more on the relevance of the process itself. Bentley has already issued the formal list of winners; I will put my efforts in nothing more than the chronicle. The ceremony was ...

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TeamViewer: the best to provide remote support

Every day is easier to give technical support if you leverage the benefits of Internet connection and remote access programs. The problem: A technical cadastre, in a municipality with poor access roads placed 48 miles away, called us. He said that opposite to him were the Corporation of trustees in order to view a demonstration and nothing seemed to work. ...

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Finalists for the 2009 Be Inspired

I’ve been invited to cover the Charlotte event, which awards prizes to the most significant innovation projects for the 2009, formerly known as Be Awards, now Be Inspired. This will take place from October 12th to 14th. From the 17 Categories, it interests me the Cadastre and Territorial Development, for which already have been appointed as finalists: 1.Caceres’ GIS in ...

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Maximum PC, a great magazine

The August issue of Maximum PC has been great, is somewhat more expensive than others of their level ($ 9 in the U.S. and $ 12 elsewhere), but subscription hardly costs $ 25 per year, with 12 editions. After PC Magazine eliminate its English print edition, I began to consume this magazine, usually without buying it, for the cost of a good ...

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