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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 ...

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Paste a spreadsheet in AutoCAD, which is automatically updated

Although we could get to the point, indicating that Office Importer is a tool with which an Excel spreadsheet or a Word file can be linked, and that this is dynamically updated as the original file is modified, the history as the account Brendan Haggerty is my form ...

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

Data scientists, GIS engineers, and software developers at EOS, a California-based company, recently released a cutting-edge cloud-based tool that enables users, journalists, researchers, and students to search and analyze vast amounts of up-to-date data from Earth observation. LandViewer is a processing service ...

Accurate purpose-dependent cadastre - trend, synergy, technique, or nonsense?

Back in 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 it originally adopts the cadastre for tax purposes, and how that need to gradually integrate data, actors and technologies is carried out by contextual integration. For 2014 ...

Python: the language that geomatics should prioritize

Last year I was able to witness 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 an adaptation of the plugin "SIT Municipal" on QGIS. It is an application that has been remaining ...

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

Today we live in interesting scenes, in which free and proprietary software coexist, contributing to the industry in conditions of competitiveness that are more balanced every day. 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 - now what?

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

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

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

… And geobloggers gathered here…

Someone had to materialize that idea of sitting in the same space, a group of totally disparate people in personality, thought and cultural context, but added to the variant of being Spanish-speaking, they are intensely passionate about what happens in the geospatial context. It is about the "I National Geobloggers Meeting", 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 profiles themselves, we will see in this section the generation of the digital terrain model from when to import the points, so that ...

ArcGIS - The Picture Book

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 there are interactive content. The…

Applied-Streetview Camera System

Applied Streetview Equipment and Systems are the product of years of experience with a segment of customers. From their 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 wide as we can imagine, considering that little by ...

Bentley Systems - SIEMENS: a strategy designed for the Internet of things

Bentley Systems was born as a family business, at that time of the 80s when technological innovation took advantage of those principles that found the American nation, where unlike other countries: vision, work hard and do 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 Property Administration System (SINAP) is a technological platform that integrates all the information related to the physical and normative resource of the nation, where the different public and private actors and individuals record all transactions associated with property assets. property, necessary for the constitution and dynamization of a market ...

Recommendations when implementing LADM

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

LADM - As Unique Model of the Land Administration Domain - Colombia

Summary of the presentation made by Golgi Alvarez and Kaspar Eggenberger at the Andean Geomatic Congress in Bogotá, in June 2016. Requirement for the Multipurpose Cadastre With the entry into force of the National Development Plan 2014 - 2018 and the creation of the National Land Agency ANT, the outlook for the Land field in ...

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 ...