The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (http://www.osgeo.org), or OSGeo, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of open geospatial technologies and data.
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How to get “.GDB” (Esri File Geodatabase) support in Quantum GIS (osgeo4w - qgis)
Following questions:
Open Source Tool capable of Reading .gdb?
How to access file geodatabase in Qgis?
How to get FGDB support in GDAL 1.9 without compiling?
I have spent around 2 days to find the ...
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What are some Free and Open Source GIS Desktop packages
Can someone please give me a list of free and open source GIS desktop packages?
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Comparison of the different open source GIS servers
I currently know the following open source GIS servers:
Geoserver: java based, vector and bitmap support, also supports. Is now on par with mapserver (performance-wise).
mapserver: c/c++, used to be ...
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Open Source Training Materials
This recent question made me wonder if there are any open source training materials for GIS.
By this I don't mean training specifically for open source software - of which I know there are some - ...
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How to add custom Feature attributes to ESRI Shapefile with Python?
I am seeking a way to take an existing ESRI Shapefile that has a Feature set of 200 countries. Each country Feature has an attribute of "NAME." My objective is to create a Python script that adds an ...
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How to split shapefile per feature in Python using GDAL?
is it possible to split a shapefile per feature in python? (best would be a solution where i can temporarily save the resulting vector objects to the memory instead to disk).
The reason: I want to ...
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What are my options for Server side clustering using open source GIS tools?
I need to make a webapp that will show over 40K Points on a map. These points are all across the globe. Using WFS Service and OpenLayers, it is possible to do clustering on small set of points, but ...
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Point-in-polygon using Python and OGR
I want to use OGR in Python to write a simple point-in-polygon test:
def point_in_polygon(point, polygon):
"""
point : [longitude, latitude]
polygon : [(lon1, lat1), (lon2, lat2), ..., ...
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Issues with osgeo - qgis.core and arcpy modules
Is it possible to have the python shell from either qgis or argis to load (import) both qgis.core and arcpy?
I am developing a metadata creation tool and have completed the core functionality using ...
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How to run OSgo4W shell script on Windows?
I have a lot of DEMs that I want to use to create hillshades, slopes and color relief from and would like to automate the processes using a shell script within OSgeo4W shell. Here is the code I used ...
