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

For many of the analysts, we want to build maps where any raster reference of any platform like Google, Bing or ArcGIS Imagery is visualized, surely we have no problem since almost any platform has access to those services. But if what we want is to download those images in good resolution, then solutions like ...

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Paste a spreadsheet in AutoCAD, which is automatically updated

While we could get to the point, indicating that Office Importer is a tool with which you can have linked an Excel spreadsheet or a Word file, and that it is updated dynamically as the original file is modified, the story how the account Brendan Haggerty is my way ...

LandViewer: analysis of real-time Earth observation images from your browser

Data scientists, GIS engineers and software developers from EOS, a California-based company, have recently launched a leading cloud-based tool that allows users, journalists, researchers and students to search and analyze huge amounts of updated data from observation of the Earth. LandViewer is a processing service ...

Precision-dependent cadastre of the purpose - tendency, synergy, technique or nonsense?

There by 2009 I elaborated the systematization of the evolution of the Cadastre of a municipality, which in its natural logic suggested a progress between the reasons why the cadastre for primitive purposes adopts for tax purposes, and how that need to integrate data, actors and technologies is a contextual integration. For 2014 ...

Python: the language that geomatics should prioritize

Last year I witnessed how my friend "Filiblu" had to put aside his Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) programming with which he felt quite comfortable, and roll up his sleeves learning Python from scratch, to develop a plugin adaptation "SIT Municipal" on QGIS. It is an application that has been running ...

Simple GIS Software: GIS client for $ 25 and Web Server for $ 100

Today we live interesting scenes, in which free software and privative coexist contributing to the industry in conditions of increasingly more balanced competitiveness. Perhaps the geospatial issue is one of the fields in which open source solutions are as robust as non-free license solutions; but nevertheless,…

I have LiDAR data - and now what?

In a very interesting article published recently by David Mckittrick, where he talks about the implications of adequate knowledge of the techniques associated with working with LiDAR in GIS and making reference to Global Mapper as a support tool in the processing of the obtained data. After reading the article I got off ...

QGIS, PostGIS, LADM - in the Course of Land Administration developed by IGAC

In the convergence of different initiatives, aspirations and challenges of Colombia to maintain leadership in the southern cone in geospatial matters, between the days 27 of July and 4 of August, the Center for Research and Development of Geographic Information - CIAF of the Geographic Institute Agustín Codazzi will develop the Course: Application of the ISO 19152 standard ...

... and gathered the geobloggers here ...

Someone had to materialize that idea of sitting in the same space, a group of people totally different in personality, thought and cultural context, but added to the variant of being Spanish speakers, they are intensely passionate about what happens in the geospatial context. This is the "I National Meeting of Geobloggers", promoted in the ...

Import points and generate a digital terrain model in a CAD file

Although what interests us at the end of an exercise like this is to generate cross sections along a line axis, calculate cut volumes, embankment, or the same profiles, we will see in this section the generation of the digital terrain model from the moment to import the points, so that ...

ArcGIS - The Book of Images

This is an enriching document that is available in Spanish, with very valuable content, both historically and technically regarding the management of images in the disciplines associated with earth sciences and geographic information systems. Most content has hyperlinks to pages where interactive content is. The…

Applied-Streetview Camera System

Applied Streetview Equipment and Systems are the product of years of experience with a customer segment. From its first client generating georeferenced cartography in Bogotá, Colombia, they have expanded their clientele to all the continents of the planet, contributing in a great variety of projects and industries. The applications of their equipment are extensive as we can imagine, considering that little ...

Bentley Systems - SIEMENS: a strategy thought in the Internet of things

Bentley Systems was born as a family business, at that time of the 80 years when technological innovation took advantage of those principles that underpin the American nation, where unlike other countries: vision, hard work and doing the right thing are almost guarantees of success. In countries with a Hispanic context, a high percentage of family businesses ...

The SINAP National System of Property Administration

The National System of Property Administration (SINAP) is a technological platform that integrates all the information related to the physical and normative resource of the nation, where the different public, private and individual actors register all the transactions associated with the assets of property, necessary for the constitution and revitalization of a market ...

Recommendations when implementing LADM

In several of the projects that I have participated, I have witnessed that the confusions caused by the LADM are not necessarily associated with understanding it as an ISO norm, but rather in isolating its conceptual scope from its technological mechanization scenario. In other words, on how to implement it. It must be clear that the LADM does not ...

LADM - As Unique Model of Land Management Dominion - Colombia

Summary of the presentation made by Golgi Alvarez and Kaspar Eggenberger at the Andean Geomatics Congress in Bogotá, in June of 2016. Requirement for the Multipurpose Cadastre With the implementation of the National Development Plan 2014 - 2018 and the creation of the National Agency of Land ANT, the panorama for the Land area in ...

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

The company Allware ltd 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 objects propierties -> Save, 3.- Expose ...