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Geomoments - Emotions and Location in a single app

What is Geomoments? The fourth industrial revolution has filled us with great technological advances and the integration of tools and solutions to achieve a more dynamic and intuitive space for the inhabitant. We know that all mobile devices (cell phones, tablets, or smartwatch) are capable of storing a large amount of information, such as bank details, ...

How to raise 3D buildings in Google Earth

Many of us know the Google Earth tool, and that is why in recent years we have witnessed its interesting evolution, to provide us with increasingly effective solutions in line with technological advances. This tool is commonly used to locate places, locate points, extract coordinates, enter spatial data to perform some type of ...

Testing the accuracy of Google elevation data - Surprise!

Google Earth provides access to your elevation data with a free Google Elevation API key. Civil Site Design, takes advantage of this potential with its new Satellite to Surface functionality. This function allows you to select an area and the distance between the grid points, it returns a surface with contour lines integrated with the ...

See UTM coordinates in Google Maps and Street View

Step 1. Download the data feed template. Although the article focuses on UTM coordinates, the application has templates in latitude and longitude with decimal degrees, as well as in degrees, minutes and seconds. Step 2. Upload the template. When selecting the template with the data, ...

How to download images from Google Earth - Google Maps - Bing - ArcGIS Imagery and other sources

For many of the analysts, who want to build maps where a raster reference from any platform such as Google, Bing or ArcGIS Imagery is displayed, we are sure that we have no problem since almost any platform has access to these services. But if what we want is to download those images in good resolution, then what solutions like ...

Wms2Cad - interacting wms services with CAD programs

Wms2Cad is a unique tool bring WMS AND TMS services to CAD drawing for reference. This includes Google Earth and OpenStreet maps map and image services. It is simple, fast and effective. You only choose the type of map from the predefined list of WMS services or define one of your interest, you can ...

Insert map in Excel - get geographic coordinates - UTM coordinates

Map.XL is an application that allows you to insert a map into Excel and obtain coordinates directly from the map. In addition, you can also show a list of latitudes and longitudes on the map. How to insert the map in Excel Once the Program is installed, it is added as an additional tab called "Map", with the functionalities of ...

Download maps and plan a route using BBBike

BBBike is an application whose main objective is to provide a route planner to travel, by bicycle, through a city and its surroundings. How do we create our route planner? Indeed, if we enter your website, the first thing that appears is a list with the names of various cities, among the ...

My experience using Google Earth for Cadastre

I often see the same questions in the keywords that users come to Geofumadas from the Google search engine. Can I do a cadastre using Google Earth? How accurate are Google Earth images? Why is my survey offset from Google Earth? Before they penalize me for what ...

View Google Earth coordinates in Excel - and convert them to UTM

I have data in Google Earth, and I want to visualize the coordinates in Excel. As you can see, it is a land with 7 vertices and a house with four vertices. Save the Google Earth data. To download this data, right click on "My places", and select "Save place as ..." Because it is a file ...

How to create a Custom Map and Do not Die in the Intent?

The Allware ltd company has recently launched a Web Framework called eZhing (www.ezhing.com), with which you can in 4 steps have your own private map with indicators and IoT (Sensors, IBeacons, Alamas, etc) all in real time. 1.- Create your Layout (Zones, Objects, Figures) layout -> Save, 2.- Name the proprietary objects -> Save, 3.- Exposes ...

Download utm zones for Google Earth

This file contains the UTM zones in kmz format. Once downloaded you must unzip it. Download the file here Download the file here Just as a reference ... the geographic coordinates come from splitting the globe into segments as we would an apple, the vertical cuts are made by the meridians (called longitudes) and the ...

Open shp files with Google Earth

The version of Google Earth Pro stopped being paid a long time ago, with which it is possible to open different GIS and Raster files directly from the application. We understand that there are different ways to send a SHP file to Google Earth, either from proprietary software such as BentleyMap or AutoCAD Civil3D, or open source ...

Valuable encouragement for gvSIG - The Europa Challenge Award

It is nice to know that gvSIG has received an international award during the recent Europa Challenge. This award provides the opportunity for projects that bring innovation and sustainable solutions to the global community. Of course, if they add value to the INSPIRE Initiative and use the technology available from ...

Geomarketing vs. Privacy: Impact of Geolocation on the common user

Since its introduction in the advertising industry, geolocation has become a fashionable concept, being perceived as one of the main advantages of mobile devices, compared to PCs, in the opinion of advertisers. However, the issue of privacy is discussed, which, according to some, is ...

Display QGIS data in Google Earth

GEarthView is an essential plugin that allows you to make a synchronized view of a Quantum GIS deployment on Google Earth. How to install the plugin To install it, select: Add-ons> Manage add-ons and search for it, as shown in the image. Once the plugin is installed, it can be viewed in the toolbar.…

OkMap, best for creating and editing GPS maps. GRATUITOUS

OkMap is perhaps one of the most robust programs for building, editing and managing GPS maps. And its most important attribute: It is Free. All of us have one day seen the need to configure a map, georeference an image, upload a shape file or kml to a Garmin GPS. Tasks like these are ...

3 Magazines and 5 experiences of the geomatic field

It's time to check out some magazines whose recent editions have come out; here I leave at least interesting experiences that appear in the latest edition of these magazines. Geoinformatics 1. User experiences in the use of Open Source GIS Software. It is interesting to read this article, which shows us what ...