This is a common challenge for many Cadastre or Cartography projects, which in the 2000- 2010 period integrated Microstation Geographics as a spatial data driver, considering reasons like the following: Arch-node management was and continues being highly practical, for cadastral The DGN is an attractive alternative, whereas its version in the same file, which has not changed in 15 years, ...
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what3words for Land Administration + QGIS Plugin
What is what3words what3words is an address solution that makes it easy for non‐technical people to communicate precise location using words instead of coordinates. It is based on a 3×3 metre grid where each square has been allocated a unique address using 3 words from the dictionary, for example index.home.raft . 3 word addresses are easy to say and remember. ...
Read More »Import data from OpenStreetMap to QGIS
The amount of data that exist in OpenStreetMap is really wide, and although it is not completely up to date, in the majority of cases it is more accurate than data traditionally raised by cartographic sheets with scale 1: 50, 000. In QGIS is great to load this layer as a background map such as the Google Earth image, for ...
Read More »OpenGeo Suite: A GIS Software great example, thought upon the OSGeo model’s weaknesses
To this day, at least in the geospatial environment, any professional with neutral thinking recognizes that open source software is as mature as commercial software, and in some ways superior to it. The standards strategy worked very wisely. While it is questionable its balance update against the required energy for technological developments, perhaps was what laid the foundation for the ...
Read More »The free GIS book
It is perhaps one of the most valuable systematization products of Spanish -speaking environment under geospatial thematic. Not having this document at hand is a crime, as well as ignores this project before reading this Geomate’s article. It is likely that not in a publishing house will be found such a product in Hispanic environment, I dare to think beyond ...
Read More »Comparative of booting with CAD/GIS programs
This is an exercise in equal conditions, to measure the time it takes to boot a program since the click on the icon until it is running. For comparison purposes, I used the one that starts in less time, and then a value that acts as an indication (rounded) of the times the quantity is lower with regard to that. ...
Read More »eGeomate: Predictions 2010: GIS Software
TRANSLATION NOTE: Please read the comments at the end of the post to clarify the real meaning of some terms. ——– A couple of days, at the warmth of a stick coffee (Spanish Idiom: “café de palo” a kind of coffee entirely prepared at home without any electrical artifact) made by my mother-in-law, we did some hallucinations on marked trends ...
Read More »Portable GIS, all from a USB
It has been released the 2.0 version of portable GIS, a simply wonderful application that can run the necessary programs for spatial information management using both desktop and web interfaces; through different devices like external drives, USB memory sticks or even digital cameras. What’s its weight? The installer file weighs 467 MB, but it takes at least 2GB USB free ...
Read More »gvSIG: The hazards of this and other trades
The way free tools have matured is interesting, some years ago, talking about free GIS, sounded like UNIX, in a geek voice and with a level of distrust or fear of the unknown. All that has changed much with the diversity of solutions that have full-grown not only in the construction of routines commonly expected but overcrowding innovative strategies, testing ...
Read More »Quantum GIS, first impression
If gvSIG friends fulfilled their promise, next Monday July 27th we will have the 1.9 stable version. So far the test has been great, according to the perceived volume of distribution lists. While waiting on Monday, by which time I hope to have the satisfaction of congratulating the performance of speech, at the cost of surely sleeplessness developers, let’s take ...
Read More »GIS software – described in 1000 words
The recent month of May, it was released version 1.2 of this brief but admirable document that with that name seems to scoff at how complicated it is the software for managing spatial data. It is written by Stefan Steiniger and Robert Weibel of Calgary University in California and Zurich University respectively. At the end give credits to secondary sources. ...
Read More »Model to measure the quality of Free Software
This document was published not long ago by the Department of Processes and Systems at the Simon Bolivar University and the National Telecommunications Commission of Venezuela CONATEL, I heard about this through the network of that country called free geomatics and it really is an interesting inspiration so as to move its cheese to anyone. The purpose of this paper ...
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