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Quantum GIS Software: Application User Review - Looking for an alternative to some of the GIS software? Read this review of Quantum GIS, an excellent free GIS software application.
(November, 2008)
Using Georeferencing Tools for Navigation and Research of Aerial Photography
- Learning about the history of an area? Check out some examples of using GIS technology and historical photography to visualize changes in a location. (October, 2008)
Transforming Lists into Maps: Using Online Tools to Geocode Non-Spatial Files - Learn how to use some simple online tools to geocode lists and other tabular data. (September, 2008)
Using Google Earth as a Map Viewer - Heard of Google Earth? Thought it was just a simple, fun Earth viewer? Read this article and see how Google Earth (GE) can be used are more than just viewing your neighbor's yard. (May, 2008)
MapWindow GIS: More than a Viewer - Looking for a user friendly desktop geographic information system (GIS) for Windows? Check out this review of an excellent open-source GIS application. (April, 2008)
XMF Alerter Monitoring Your Spatial Enterprise - Enterprise GIS applications continue to grow as a mission-critical tool for businesses and agencies of every size. There is ever increasing pressure for IT/GIS to deliver these systems and applications faster and operate them in a fail-safe environment. (February, 2008)
GeoExpress 7 - A Whole New Animal? - For years geospatial professionals have relied on GeoExpress to manipulate or compress their imagery or both. The improvements in GeoExpress 7 make it almost a whole new animal. (February, 2008)
FME in a NutShell! - FME, have you heard about it? Chances are if you work with spatial data on a daily basis then you may be familiar with the product. If not, then you should be! Simply put, Safe Software's FME is a spatial ETL platform that provides a complete data access solution for reading, writing and transforming spatial data. (August, 2007)
GIS Viewing Tools You Shouldn't Be Without! - We've identified some of the best GIS Data Viewing tools that every GIS geek should have in his/her tools folder. We list the product features and where to find them.
A Look at iSITE 4.7 - With iSITE, users ranging from senior management to support staff can produce presentation quality analyses via PC, Web or Palm Pilot in minutes, with little or no training(Sept. 05, 2001)
Latitude/Longitude Classes - A treat for you programers! The author of this piece has developed two control classes that would provide for the consistent entry and display of latitude and longitude values. complete details and a demo program illustrates the capabilities of these classes.
ERDAS.com Gets A New Look - Several weeks ago ERDAS launched a completely revamped website at www.ERDAS.com. The GeoCommunity offers up a closer look at what you can expect.
SpatialNews Exclusive With MP 2002 Development Team - MapPoint 2002 is coming soon!
Check out this exclusive first look at the latest release as the GeoCommunity editor gets a tour from from Microsoft Geography team.
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Terragen Photorealistic Rendering Software - Terragen is a work-in-progress scenery generator for Windows 95/98/NT/2000. At this stage of its development, Terragen is free for personal non-commercial use. We provide an introductory look at this nifty product. |
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MapInfo Professional v6.5 Beta -
Now is your chance to help MapInfo Corp. by taking part in the MapInfo 6.5 Beta test program. Details Here. |
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MFworks V2.6 for Windows - Rick Gray offers up a look at this popular raster-based GIS.
After looking at several other packages, the combination of price, capabilities, and ease of use made MFworks Rick's first choice.
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Working with DOQQs -
A primer providing you with a wealth of information to help you understand DOQQs. Descriptions, tools, resources,and pointers to loads of info are provided.
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About SDTS! -
Finally, a comprehensive directory of articles, tutorials, tools and downloads dedicated to the SDTS data format.
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Viewing & Importing .E00 Data
We've provided this document to help users import E00 data into ArcView and GeoMedia. For those of you wishing to simply "view" the data we introduce you to a nifty, free viewing program you can use to quickly and easily view E00 and more than 80 other common data formats. |
GRASS 5.0 Beta Update
In a move towards GRASS 5.0,
the last beta release of GRASS GIS version 5 has been
published. More than 1700 changes, additions and
improvements have been done on the source code since
GRASS 5.0 beta8 in July 2000. |
Affiliate and Reseller Programs for GIS/LBS Websites
Our research has turned up a number of partner or affiliate providers that may be
of interest to you. |
GenaMap creates GIS for Red Hat Linux -
Mapping The Route To A Better Product. How do you find your way to making a good product even better? Make it with Red Hat Linux.
World Geography Factbook -
World Geography Factbook 2000 is a FREE e-book that runs on PDAs using the Palm operating system.
Digital Image Conversion Utilities -
This feature looks at how Florida State University has assembled a collection of DOQQ and DRG utility programs to easily perform these tasks using ARC/INFO.
Processing DRGs Using ARC/INFO -
A tutorial on converting USGS DRGs from State Plane East NAD 27 to UTM NAD 83 using and Removing the Map Collars using ARC/INFO GIS (AMLs included)
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