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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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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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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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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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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2answers
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Learning to think spatially rather than just follow point and click tutorials
The college I work for is considering revamping their intro to GIS course. Traditionally, they've used the ESRI suite but are now open two using other options. There are two factors responsible for ...
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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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A comprehensive, user-friendly GDAL manual?
I'm becoming a real fan of using GDAL tools in a bash terminal. However, I quite often get stuck trying to solve particular problems, or getting syntaxes right. Apart from the details provided in the ...
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3answers
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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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Skill requirements and resources to run a private GIS consultancy/ GIS service providing firm?
I'm planning to make a private GIS service providing firm in the coming years. I just wanted to know what skills and resources are required to set up such a firm? I'm aware that the software, hardware ...
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Spatial databases learning resources for newbies
Would be taking up a course on spatial databases next semester. Would anybody know a newbie friendly introductory resource? A vendor neutral one would be preferable. Thanks.
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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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Spatial reference for dummies?
Can anyone recommend a good reference or tutorial that explains the principles of spatial references, projections, and coordinate systems? We are a small team of programmers working with GIS ...
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4answers
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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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2answers
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Distributed & Cloud GIS Resources
Are there any definitive research papers, web resources, or (text)books on distributed GIS? Topics I'm interested in are:
Parallelism of sequential spatial algorithms
Frameworks for implementing GIS ...
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6answers
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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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2answers
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GIS/Geospatial Podcast
I wanted to know if there are any free available to download informative GIS/Geospatial audio or video podcast other than ESRI Instructional Series Podcasts and Speaker Series Podcasts in the market. ...
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What should a QGIS course for advanced ArcGIS users cover?
I will build a 16 hour (2 day) course on QGIS for ArcGIS users. The target users that breathe and sleep ArcGIS. As we're trying to reduce our costs, we're thinking of switching some people to QGIS and ...
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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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Idiots guide to expressions for QGIS
I have no formal training in GIS and have learned on the fly with ArcGIS 9.3 at work and have been dabbling with QGIS on my own time for my business. Is there any resource recommendations ingeneral ...
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What resources can you suggest for making beautiful online Maps or Mapping applications?
As a GIS developer, my design skills are rather limited. Are there any links, books or resources, that you would suggest to make my online maps more pleasing and beautiful?
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Free / Open source GIS Education sources
I'm looking for free / open source GIS education sources for advanced GIS users. Specifically sources that cover programming, spatial analysis, modeling, spatial databases / data management. I use ...
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Industry-based examples of using Python in geoprocessing and arcpy
I was asked recently by some students what types of operations GIS Analyst/Developer are usually trying to automate by using Python with geoprocessing in ArcGIS and ArcPy site package. I guess it ...
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Another Student in Need of Career Advice
I would like to apologize in advance for asking yet another "what should I do with my life" type of question.
I am currently a senior who is very close to finishing up my B.S. in Information Systems. ...
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Reprojection - Learning the ins and outs
I would like to expand my knowledge coordinate systems, projections and reprojecting data, with a view of writing a reprojection engine.
Could you provide me with some resources (books, websites, ...
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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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Tutorials for UML/GML
Do you know any good tutorials or any resources for learning from the beginning UML and GML ? I am asking because (later) i would like to learn how to make a application schemas in context of ...
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Where should I start advanced GIS learning
I am relatively familiar with most of the GIS stuff. I develop GIS applications as well with open source offerings. Still I find some lapses in my theoretical knowledge in GIS. What resources can you ...
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GIS for Telecommunication
I previously asked this question in mapinfo-L (google groups). Since, I think that GIS & Telecommunication is broad subject, I think GIS SE is the correct platform to ask these questions:
What ...
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1answer
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Need to learn more about Precision and Accuracy
I am currently taking Introduction to Image Interpretation online and there is a section in it that talks about Precision and Accuracy. I wanted to know if someone out there has any good information ...
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3answers
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GIS applications used in Civil Engineering & sources for acquiring more GIS knowledge
I have finished my masters in GIS in August 2009. Since then I have been working full time. My background is in Civil engineering. I do not know many people from similar background getting into this ...
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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 ...
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Looking for literature on correcting one DEM with another
I am looking for some scientific papers (any language) according how to deal with the correction of one DEM with a other (such as ASTER with SRTM). Any idea? Thanks!
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Research papers on SWE (Sensor Web Enablement) and SOS (Sensor Observation Service) with security
I am looking for research papers (conference/journals) on the topic of SWE (Sensor Web Enablement) and SOS (Sensor Observation Service) also dealing/including security aspects.
I have already found ...
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Need Oracle spatial tutorials
I am working on Oracle spatial 11g and I am referring to Oracle docs as a learning resource.
Does anyone know any more Oracle Spatial tutorials ?
We want to integrate Oracle Spatial data with ...
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Resources for python scripting [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
QGIS tutorials and resources
I would like to know regarding the available resources for starting to learn about python scripting for QGIS.
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Looking for material for learning geospatial development in Java
I want to begin using Java for geospatial development. For the purpose of learning I am interested in suggestions on some books, web sites, etc. (i.e. reference materials) that would help me out.
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1answer
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GIS learning resources for a .NET developer
There are couple of questions which are related to learning GIS or GIS skill sets here but I would like to ask very specific question.
My current skills: I don't claim that I am a good programmer ...
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Good Learning Resources [duplicate]
I am very new to the GIS, maps, openlayer , mapserver etc
Can someone recommend some good intro resources that can start from basics and build up.
Thanks
