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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 increasingly urgent to apply. 30 years ago, talking about a coordinate, a route or a map was a circumstantial issue. Used only by cartography specialists or tourists who could not do without a ...

Is it worth learning Java?

Beyond OpenOffice, Vuze, Woopra, or the applets that are deployed in some web pages, it is very positioned in mobile systems, TV, GPS, ATMs, business programs and many of the pages that we surf every day are running on Java . The following graphic shows how Java technology has a domain marked ...

What students think about Open Source Geospatial

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

118 themes from FOSS4G 2010

The best that can be left of these events are the PDF presentations that are very practical for reference in training processes or decision making; 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 marked emphasis on remote sensing. Although the year is young, it seems that the next editions will keep this line, including this time two of the big ones of the non-free sector: ERDAS and ENVI. If things are as I imagine them, in the next ...

UDig, first impression

We have already taken a look at other open source tools in the GIS area, including 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 the ones 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 stick coffee made by my mother-in-law, we made some hallucinations about the trends set for 2010 in the Internet area. In the case of the geospatial medium, the situation is more static (not to mention boring), a lot of this is already said in the medium term ...

SEXTANTE, + 220 routines for gvSIG

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

GvSIG, which will be in the 5tas. journeys

It has already been announced a preliminary version of what could be in the fifth gvSIG days to be developed in the events center of Valencia, from the 2 to the 4 of December of 2009. A lot of the work to be presented is from Spain, although there are some experiences from Germany, Italy and there. They also call the ...

GvSIG courses in Valencia

From the first quarter of 2010, the University Training Center Florida will be serving gvSIG courses, which to date has been taught as a complement to the Diploma of Interior Tourism Specialist. The duration of 20 hours for two weeks, is aimed at professionals, technicians and officials who wish to enter the ...

Portable GIS, everything from a USB

The 2 version of Portable GIS has been released, a simply wonderful application to execute from an external disk, a USB memory and even a digital camera the necessary programs for the management of spatial information both at desktop and web level. How much does it weigh? The installer file weighs 467 MB, but is required when ...

GvSIG: Profits from this and other trades

The way free tools have matured is interesting, a few years ago, talking about free GIS, it sounded like UNIX, in Geek's voice 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 Simon Bolivar University and the National Commission of Telecommunications of Venezuela CONATEL, I found out about it through the network of that country called free geomatics and it is really an interesting inspiration as a couple to move the ...

Who moved my cheese?

I really like Geoinformatics, apart from being a magazine with great taste of layout, the contents are very good in geospatial matters. Today the April version has been announced, from where I have taken some texts highlighted in red to motivate them 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 11, 12 and 13 March days of 2009, shortly after the 2009 Informatics 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 has been the day that I have corresponded to expose in the course of real estate cadastre of Bolivia. The subject has been oriented to the reflection of how to choose a computer tool for a geomatic development. This is the graphic that I have used, and my focus has been the analysis of the context in which we hope ...

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 ...