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Geographic Information Systems: 30 educational videos

The intrinsic geolocation in almost everything we do, using electronic devices, has made the GIS issue more urgent to apply every day. 30 years ago, talking about a coordinate, a route or a map was a circumstantial matter. Used only by cartography specialists or tourists who could not do without a ...

Is Java Worth Learning?

Beyond OpenOffice, Vuze, Woopra, or the applets that are displayed on some web pages, it is highly positioned in systems for mobiles, TV, GPS, ATMs, business programs and many of the pages that we navigate daily are running on Java . The following graphic shows how Java technology has a marked domain of ...

What students think about Open Source Geospatial

This article is based on a presentation made at the FOSS4G in Barcelona in September 2010 by: Iraklis Karampourniotis and Ioannis Paraschakis - from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Zoi Arvanitidou - from the University of the Aegean The link was passed to me by Gabriel Reyes, and is based on the question, if the ...

118 themes from FOSS4G 2010

The best that can be left from these events are the PDF presentations that are very practical for reference in training or decision-making processes; more in these times that the open source geospatial world has matured in a surprising way. It is a good example of human creativity, which recycles and ...

Geoinformatics 1: Remote sensing

Geoinformatics arrives in its first edition of 2010, with a strong emphasis on remote sensing. Although the year is young, it seems that the next editions will maintain this line, including on this occasion two of the greats of the non-free sector: ERDAS and ENVI. If things are as I imagine them, in the next ...

UDig, first impression

Before we have taken a look at other open source tools in the GIS area, among them Qgis and gvSIG, apart from non-free programs that we have tried before. In this case we will do it with User-Friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig), one of those that come in PortableGIS. Where uDig comes from is a construction ...

Geophysics: 2010 Predictions: GIS Software

A couple of days ago, in the heat of a café de palo that my mother-in-law makes, we were making some hallucinations about the trends set for 2010 in the Internet area. In the case of the geospatial environment, the situation is more static (not to say boring), much in this has already been said in the medium term ...

SEXTANTE, + 220 routines for gvSIG

Just as GRASS complements Quantum GIS, SEXTANTE does it with gvSIG, maintaining the specialty. They are the best of the collaborative efforts between open source alternatives in the geospatial environment, seeking to avoid duplication. The effort by gvSIG to stay in vector management with many CAD capabilities was ...

GvSIG, which will be in the 5tas. journeys

A preliminary version of what could be in the fifth gvSIG conference to be held in the Valencia event center, from December 2 to 4, 2009, has already been announced. Much of the work to be presented is from Spain, although there are some experiences of Germany, Italy and over there. They also call the ...

GvSIG courses in Valencia

Starting in the first quarter of 2010, The Florida University Training Center will be serving gvSIG courses, which to date have been taught as a complement to the Interior Tourism Specialist Diploma. The one lasting 20 hours for two weeks, is aimed at professionals, technicians and civil servants who wish to enter the ...

Portable GIS, everything from a USB

Version 2 of Portable GIS has been released, a simply wonderful application to run from an external disk, a USB memory and even a digital camera the programs necessary for handling spatial information both on the desktop and on the web. How much does the installer file weigh 467 MB, but it is required when ...

GvSIG: Profits from this and other trades

The way free tools have matured is interesting, some years ago, talking about free GIS, it sounded like UNIX, in the voice of Geek and at a level of mistrust for fear of the unknown. All that has changed a lot with the diversity of solutions that have matured not only in the construction of ...

Quantum GIS, first impression

The article makes a first revision of Quantum GIS, without analyzing the extensions; doing some comparisons with gvSIG and other applications

Model for measuring the quality of Free Software

This document was published not long ago by the Department of Processes and Systems of the Simón Bolívar University and the National Telecommunications Commission of Venezuela CONATEL, I found out about it through the network of that country called free geomatics and it really is an interesting inspiration as to move the ...

Who moved my cheese?

I really like Geoinformatics, apart from being a magazine with great taste in layout, the contents are very good in geospatial matters. Today the April version has been announced, from which I have taken some texts highlighted in red to motivate you to the succulent reading. In previous versions I made a review, today I…

What will be in the III Conference of Free GIS

The III Free GIS Conference will take place in Girona on March 11, 12 and 13, 2009, a little after the 2009 Informática fair in Havana. On Friday 13 will be the simultaneous workshops, three in the morning and three in the afternoon configured as follows: Morning Afternoon Workshop ...

Criteria for choosing GIS / CAD solutions

Today was the day that I had to expose in the course of real estate cadastre of Bolivia. The topic has been oriented to the reflection of how to choose a computer tool for geomatic development. This is the graph that I have used, and my focus has been the analysis of the context where we wait ...

Downloadable downloads for GIS users

Here is a list of downloads that are often very useful for users of CAD / GIS platforms. Some of them are not available for recent versions, but they are still a reference and it is worth keeping an eye on their update. Autodesk DWF Viewer Free tool to read and print AutoCAD files ...