TRANSLATION NOTES: Please read some comments at the end of this post. Some time ago we have being speaking of what it takes to make the leap from Microstation Geographics to Bentley Map; we talked about how both schemes work and some important benefits of Bentley Map. In a preview post I spoke how it is possible to migrate the ...
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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 »Connect to the data, AutoCAD Map – Bentley Map
In this post I want to make a comparative between the access’ ways to a database with geospatial platforms from Autodesk and Bentley. I’ve used for this: AutoDesk Civil 3D 2008 (which includes AutoCAD Map) Bentley Map V8i AutoCAD Civil 3D 2008 Bentley Map V8i Connect to: File, connect to Data… Connect to: Settings, database, connect AutoCAD concentrates here all ...
Read More »Converting shp to kml… and an all-out smoke
Fdo2Fdo is an interesting application that serves not only to convert shape format files to kml’s as it’s announced in this post in a poorly way. For now, it becomes an alternative after shp2kml’s death which, according to its creator’s rules, has apparently expired Seeing its capabilities it turns in a great surprise considering that it’s a tool for free. ...
Read More »Import shp map to Microstation
TRANSLATION NOTES: Please read some comments at the end of this post Consider the case: I have an ArcView layer containing the villages’ jurisdictions of a zone in shape format, and I wish to import it into Microstation Geographics. Let’s see how to do it: Importing vectors It is necessary for this to open a project in Microstation Geographics, in ...
Read More »Convert kml to dxf files
A while ago there was a practical application from Zonums’s friend that made this role without much hindrance. Unfortunately, the friend was very strategic to create an expiration date for its solution, so that if you open it now says it is expired; it is very likely that he sell the license … blah, blah, blah. Well, what we want ...
Read More »Google Earth portable, for use without an Internet connection
TRANSLATION NOTES: Please read some comments at the end of this post. Recently Google made certain changes to licenses, including mentions: 1. Launch of the portable version This has been promoted for purposes such as natural disasters, involving loss of electrical power or connectivity. In this case there is a version to put on a USB disk or on a ...
Read More »Working shape files with AutoCAD
The shape files, known as .shp files will be quaternary formats in matter of technology but we can not avoid that they have been popularized as much as it was ArcView 3x. This is why they are still widely used, to the extent that most platforms especially geospatial have developed routines to operate them. Even gvSIG can read and edit ...
Read More »GvSIG 2, first impressions
In the course we decided to try the new GvSIG version, which although is not yet declared stable, it can be downloaded different builds to see what happens. I downloaded the 1214, and even I hoped to prove the functionality of point and line symbols as xurxo told me, apparently I have to try the 1218. Here I left you ...
Read More »Released version 8.0.10.0 for Manifold GIS
It has been announced this Manifold’s version; from 8.0 release it has been 117 changes, most have been oriented to improve the speed in data management. We must recognize that they have heard most bugs that have been reported for those of us who in an impertinent way have invested for this application, so I take advantage now to mention ...
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