Managing and Exposing Structured and Unstructured Metadata/Content Using Open Standards Join us on January 23rd, 2014 Just the facts In today’s environment, it is more important that organizations make their information discoverable and accessible. Managing unstructured and structured content can pose a major challenge. Compusult will provide an overview and demonstration of the latest version of its Meta Manager software. ...
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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 »Ipad, my 27 favorite applications
Playing, playing with this tablet I proposed to stop using the laptop at the beginning of next year. My uncertainty whether it will really be possible led me to search the basic tools that will replace what I do – and don’t do – in my routine. It is just interesting Apple’s operating model with these tablets, because the applications ...
Read More »How Mapserver works
TRANSLATION NOTES: Please read some comments at the end of this post. Last time we talk about some criteria of why MapServer and its basic installation. Now let’s look at some of its performance in a mapping exercise from the Chiapas buddies (*). Where it is mounted Once installed Apache, the default publishing directory for MapServer is the OSGeo4W folder ...
Read More »What Bentley do bring in Be Inspired
Just a few days from a long trip to London and then Amsterdam, let’s take a look at what the Danish might impress us that this time comes together as finalists. The finalists in the Government and Geospatial issue GeoSite a Denmark company will present a smoke using connection via mobile, via web services that interacts on both tracks. From ...
Read More »Deciding for MapServer
TRANSLATION NOTES: Please read some comments at the end of this post. Taking advantage of a recent conversation with a Cadastre institution that sought with what to publish their maps, I summarize here the most important to return the item bailouts to the community. Maybe in time it’ll serve someone who wants to make a decision or ask for egeomate’s ...
Read More »CAD, GIS… or both?
… Selling capabilities of what free software does is more difficult than to convince an official to commit a felony punishable (piracy) for what expensive software doesn’t do. Bentley has recently launched a campaign to promote Bentley Map, using as an argument, it is not necessary to be thinking separately if they can be handled by a single tool. On ...
Read More »Aulasca, many free GIS resources
The virtual classroom of the Cartographic Institute of Andalusia is a platform mounted on Moodle, with which you can take distance learning courses. Apart from the many information services available from the Department of Housing and Ordinance Landing, I have heard of teaching materials in the geospatial theme recently made available. The hosting platform is a bit miserable (though it ...
Read More »What is going to be in the Free GIS Conference of Girona
Three months after the beginning of the IV Conference, to be held in the 10 to 12 March, this is the proposal of what we might see there. IDE / OGC IDE Open Source: The way towards INSPIRE. Spatial data Infrastructure from Venezuela, an IDE made with100% free software. Integration of the WMS-C recommendation on pre-existing standards in the IDE. ...
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 »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 ...
Read More »Nothing spatial ArcGuments
The matter is that the first time I saw you, the impression I took was that the plot of your style was outside my reach; maybe because the first version I saw was very clearly arranged to your style; so, since those days I got thinking that it was geopdf. Then, I mistook with the basic rgb of your labels, ...
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 »A standard model for the cadastre
This name has a paper presented at the Third ISDE Congress held in the Czech Republic in 2003. The authors, all of the ITC and the Geodesy Department of the technology Delft University, of the Netherlands. Although the link I show (in English) has some additional adjustments Christiaan Lemmen Paul Van Der Molen Peter Van Oosterom Hendrik Ploeger Wilko Quak ...
Read More »MapInfo: Yesterday, today and perhaps tomorrow
MapInfo is software that has been popularized on a regular basis as a competitive alternative to the ESRI dominance. Much has been written about this tool, I want to dedicate this post to a review on its trend than on its capacity, which according to 2008 Daratech study appears in seventh place in terms of sales in 2008 and sixth ...
Read More »Geo Web Publisher, it seems easier
Reviewing what now Geoweb Publisher V8i is, it is clear that this product has had too much evolution, but the logic remains, there is a big change from what it was a primitive tool for geo-engineers to publish their data in vector and what now is a proposal for geospatial purposes. I have received V8i version, I think to do ...
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 ...
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