I spoke recently about what means in statistics to talk about software, specifically 11 programs which represents 50% of the visitors coming by keyword visits. It is difficult to give recommendations of which software is better, because it depends on the context (and the money) conditions, the more I can aspire is to write and give my impressions; to enable ...
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How much is the software in this blog
More than two years writing about technology issues crazy, usually software and applications. Today I want to take to make an analysis of what it means to speak of software in the hope of forming an opinion, to highlight strengths and how they respond to income and words as Internet traffic generation. Software entries that involve it visits that involve ...
Read More »3 wishes for today
Hi sweet, days without hearing from you. Yes, it’s been several things, good, bad and regular. I was traveling again, as the last 4 years. No, nothing changes here, every day the situation becomes more delicate. But we’ve been making progress. What happens is that the day was born with palate flavored the last 20 seconds of the Arjona’s baby ...
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 »Why we have to thank neogeographers like Google
This is the name of Eric Van Rees interview conducted with the leading men of three outstanding companies in Geoinformatics technologies: Jack Dangermond, ESRI President Richard Zambuni, Director, Bentley Geospatial Line Ton de Vries, CEO of Bentley Cadastre line and land development Halsey Wise, Intergraph President and CEO The document is interesting, and comes at a time when evolution in ...
Read More »Comprehensive migration to free Software
TRANSLATION NOTES: Please read some comments at the end of this post It was published under ‘Creative Commons’ license, in English and Spanish version an experience systematization of the Department of Infrastructure and Transport of Valencia in its migration from commercial software to free software. The project was called gvPONTIS, and more than having the experience’s reconstruction, has a great ...
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 ...
Read More »Spatial Data Infrastructure for Guatemala
It’s interesting the prototype of spatial data infrastructure for Guatemala that is preparing the General Secretary of planning and programming of the SEGEPLAN’s Presidency. We had seen in the video presentation of Moses Poyatos and Walter Giron from SITIMI in the 4th gvSIG’s days; at the end of the presentation mentioned that the IDEs was a topic of fashion in ...
Read More »gvSIG 1.9 and 2.0 stable in July and September
Formally it have been unveiled definite aspects of the scope and established dates for the release of gvSIG stable versions. It’s very valuable the answer for two basic questions: 1. When will it be released gvSIG 1.9? July 27, 2009 2. And when will be gvSIG 2.0 launched? September 15, 2009 We hope that the development effort will be geared ...
Read More »Brief on AdSense advertising
About AdWords and AdSense AdWords is the system used by Google to display ads, companies pay, per printed, per click or per action, while AdSense is the system used by the owners of space for ads to be shown. So, the ads you see above this post have been paid by a company, blog or someone who is willing to ...
Read More »Top 60, the most searched of egeomate 2008
Here is the list of the 60 most popular words in egeomate (geofumadas in Spanish) in this 2008 year: 1. Own brand (1%) This is the keyword for which have reached more visits, usually used by those who already know the blog, who did not attend nor have read rss in their favorites, and not to write the crazy url ...
Read More »Who Moved My Cheese?
I like Geoinformatics so much, cause besides being a magazine with a great layout appeal; the contents are very good in geospatial. Today has been announced the release of April, where I have taken some texts highlighted in red to motivate a luscious reading. In earlier versions I did a summary for them, today I’ve taken as the post theme, ...
Read More »Connect MicroStation V8i with WMS services
A while ago we showed an archaic form of how was it possible to connect to OGC services using MicroStation; I remember Keith told me that the next version would have these capabilities. Connect To access, it’s always made using raster manager that now, additional to adding a raster file and imaging service it is displayed web map service ...
Read More »gvSIG as an alternative for municipalities
This week I’ll have a meeting with project’s technicians which are considering gvSIG as an alternative to be implemented in municipalities where they’re running a territorial ordering project that comprises part of Central America. In Latin America we hear different experiences about gvSIG’s use; in this case I want to mention one of them occurred in Guatemala, possibly the first ...
Read More »Manifold GIS creating layouts for printing
In this post we will see how to create an output map or what we call layout using Manifold GIS. Basics To create a layout, Manifold allows you to keep nested in a dataframe or a map as it is known, although it may be within a folder or associated with a layer or another Manifold object called parent. You ...
Read More »The best of the gvSIG’s 4th Journeys…
Many people agree that the best achieved in this recent days’ journeys was the allusive event’s magazine, which represents a great job, not only for the regarding content but for its fancy graphic design. For those who received the printed format, certainly it represents an invaluable one-piece collection, just the same as those Obelix’s comics saved in an old but ...
Read More »Geoinformatics March, continues the Open GIS
It has already left Geoinformatics’ this month edition, showing in its cover a Digital Globe satellite image of the South of Iran as a threshold for presenting the German company GeoServe’s services. Continuity is mostly given to items previously written and we are pleased that the trend, at least for this year, for displaying open source technologies applied to the ...
Read More »Life after ArcView 3.3 … GvSIG
TRANSLATION NOTES: Please read some comments at the end of this post I had finished teaching the first module of GvSIG, to an institution that apart than implementing a system for municipalities use, expects to also provide training on free GIS. This institution had developed an application on Avenue but when thinking about migrating it to ArcGIS 9 have given ...
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