Resources used to aid the acquisition of skills and knowledge
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How to Start Web Mapping?
I know I want to start working on a web map at work. We'll be mapping some of our statistics by city.
I have an idea, but I'm not exactly sure where to start. Are there any definitive resources ...
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Where can I find QGIS tutorials and resources?
After several recommendations, I thought I'd familiarize myself with the capabilities of QGIS.
I downloaded the program, but apart from basic loading of data, I got lost (the help file wasn't much ...
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What are some resources for learning Python and arcpy?
I would like to learn arcpy, but I do not know quite where to begin. Does anyone have any good advice on where I should start to learn arcpy?
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Great GIS, maps & cartography quotes
Programmers' list has been a pleasure to read. Stats' list is growing fast as well. So perhaps there is a place for separate one on this site?
Please share your nuggets of wisdom / humour / ...
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How to style beautiful road maps with QGIS?
I am trying to design a beautiful map using Qgis. As I'm a software developer not a designer, I was hoping that this will be easy, but it isn't!
There is a similar question here Qgis tutorials and ...
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GIS Videos - That Mom Can Understand
Working as a professional within the GIS discipline, I often find it challenging to describe to people what GIS is (in a face to face conversation). Telling them that GIS stands for Geographic ...
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General GIS Questions for Job interviews
I am trying to gather general GIS questions that are asked in an interview process, not related to any particular software but questions that can test one's core knowledge about GIS.
I will ...
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Which topics are essential for a crash course in QGIS?
What topics do you think are essential in a 25-hour "crash course" introduction for Quantum GIS?
What topics do you think are nice extras to be included in such a course?
Target audience: Zero or ...
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Which pgrouting workshop or tutorial is most current?
Please recommend pgrouting tutorials or workshops that are most current.
I ask because I just read a post that claims a tutorial is deprecated. (see osm2po vs osm2pgrouting: workshop post)
I am ...
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What are the best resources for learning GIS programming with Python?
In your opinion, what is the best book/site to learn Python with GIS goals in mind?
By "best", I mean:
not very long (book)
easy to understand (book/site)
good practical examples (book/site)
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GIS developer blogs … recommendations?
I'm looking for recommendations for GIS blogs ... specifically GIS developer blogs. I'm less interested in the geography than in how apps are put together.
I'd like to keep up with ESRI ArcGIS as ...
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What are the best news resources for the GIS community?
I currently rely on a mixture of mailing lists, twitter and a couple of blogs. What do you find as an indispensable part of your GIS media intake?
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Migrate from ArcGIS to QGIS?
This is my first visit to and first question on this site, I hope this newbie question is suitable here.
Our lab has about 10 projects in ArcGIS 9 (a couple are made in ArcGIS 10) that includes the ...
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What is Change Detection and how I can perform such analysis with open source tools?
From wikipedia page:
Change detection for GIS (geographical information systems) is a process that measures how the attributes of a particular area have changed between two or more time periods. ...
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Which topics are fundamental for ArcGIS?
Similar to Which topics are essential for a crash course in QGIS?, which topics are fundamental to ArcGIS? Basic through advanced topics are welcome. Should be freely accessible to all. This is about ...
