Hot answers tagged osx
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I run ArcGIS on OSX pretty much every day using VMWare. The only difference is that I do not have it installed in a Virtual Machine - it is a bootcamp partition - and let me explain to you why, IMHO, this has more advantages over a standard VM installation for ArcGIS.
First let's take VMWare out of the equation and talk about pure Bootcamp.
When you use ...
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One workaround is just to go for the raw data, since this is a very simple file format.
Not for everyone, but it can be illuminating to see what is happening.
## all these details are in the .HDR file
NROWS <- 6000
NCOLS <- 4800
At this point you can try the different options for integer sign and endianness directly, and reading ...
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How is the file system handled when defining layers in ArcMap, when on
a Mac? eg, is there a concept of the C: drive? Is the Windows file
system handled by Parallels (with Windows 7 installed)?
When you use a virtualization platform like Parallels, your computer is effectively divided into a host and a guest OS. In your case, OS X is the host OS ...
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There are some issues with this file or with GDAL. I am using windows 7
R version 2.13.1 (2011-07-08)
Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
and
> getGDALVersionInfo()
[1] "GDAL 1.7.2, released 2010/04/23"
> GDALinfo('E020N90.DEM')
rows 6000
columns 4800
bands 1
origin.x 20
origin.y 40
res.x ...
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The issue seems to be caused by a problem recognising the fact that the data is in signed 2 byte integer format. It is wrongly interpreted as unsigned 2 byte integer format. Therefore your nodata value of -9999 becomes: 2bytes=256*256 -9999 = 55537
What I find strange is that min value : -9999 and max value : 5483
are the same for both windows and mac. ...
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I still have to resort to ArcGIS in a virtual machine from time to time on my Macbook, and have experimented with performance issues over the years. As @Chad Cooper mentions, XP will feel very snappy indeed ... so does Win7 but it's worth taking the time to tweak it (get rid of Aero, replace the default 'find' with 'everything' app, etc; lots of advice about ...
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the path is /Library/Frameworks/GDAL.framework/Programs which is a symbolic link to the latest version installed /Library/Frameworks/GDAL.framework/Versions/1.8/Programs
To use the commands in the console (shell):
export PATH=/Library/Frameworks/GDAL.framework/Programs:$PATH
gdalinfo ..
Or put this command in the bash_profile file
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Build for both and only exclude powerpc binaries.
ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386 -arch x86_64" ./configure
ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386 -arch x86_64" ./make
But honestly, if you are already in the Kyngchaos realm with GEOS and proj.4, then just grab his PostgreSQL/PostGIS binaries, too.
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Try gdal_merge. You can grab the GDAL framework from William Kyngesburye's website.
Instructions for utilizing gdal_merge can be found here.
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I make replicable Python/C/C++ GIS environments using virtualenv and zc.buildout. My ichpage https://github.com/sgillies/ichpage project is a little dated but could serve as a template for an up-to-date one (like the one I use for my Pleiades site development work and deployments). Blog post about it at ...
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Are you running on osx? I take it you are referring to how on startup it opens the browser to the GeoServer homepage? That port is actually hardcoded and you can't change it so it is a bug. Feel free to open an issue in the bug tracker.
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See here:
http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/frameworks#gdal_complete
you will need to install a "plugin" and then add (compiling I guess) the support into GDAL (using the SDK you MUST download from ERDAS, after accepting their license). For Linux the SDK is no more available (in the ERDAS site), and I don't remember to have seen something for OsX recently.
...
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If you need to use OSX you can easily avoid installation complexities by installing homebrew!
After this the only commands you will need to enter are:
brew install gdal
It will automatically install also proj and geos because they are gdal dependencies.
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Virtualenv allows you to provision a private Python environment, but does not extend to system libraries outside of the Python universe. The three packages you mentioned are all C/C++ applications at their core, so while they have interfaces for use with Python, they cannot be packaged without interacting with the C libraries (libc on up).
Because of the ...
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I am running ArcGIS 10 on a VMWare virtual machine with Win XP Pro. Performance is as good as expected, and it runs as fast as my 9.3.1 on my laptop (also XP Pro). VMWare is installed on a well equipped server, which properly has something to say regarding performance on the virtual machines. I access the virtual machine via remote desktop. I know this ...
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I have a first generation MacBook Pro (COre 2 Duo, 2GB of RAM) running Windows XP Pro under BootCamp/VMWare Fusion. I needed Windows solely for using ArcGIS. I'll tell you this, under BootCamp, Windows XP FLIES. Performance in the VM is snappy too, as is ArcGIS, and I'm talking about an old-skool MacBook Pro and a version of VMWare Fusion that is probably ...
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For ArcGIS to work faster on a MAC ( arcgis is not that fast in the first place) in comparison to old arcview 3.2 on startup,geoprocessing & joins.
have successfully created a faster environment using parallels - which is tested against windows xp pro
http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/
(a 30 days trial is available to prove your concept)
is ...
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It is a recurrent question: the module is Shapely and it is a pure Python module and not a QGIS plugin. (Shapely.geometry is part of the Shapely module).
QGIS on Mac OS X use the default Apple install of Python (Mac OS X is a UNIX, like Linux)
Windows does not have Python installed by default, so QGIS must install its own version of Python where Shapely is ...
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1.- Install Homebrew
2.- Download the ECW/JP2 SDK from ERDAS and install on /usr/local
3.- Install gdal using formula:
brew install gdal --enable-unsupported --complete
Enjoy.
By the way, if in addition you want other things like filegdb, the steps are similar (i.e step 2.5 would be to download and install the filegdb SDK to /usr/local)
To ...
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Sam, if you are looking for Mac OS X installers for several osgeo tools, including PostgreSQL and PostGIS, check out kyngchaos.com. Links to other downloads on left side of page.
EDIT Make sure to read the included README files, as they note the necessary additions to your PATH and other environment variables. Especially useful if you are building software ...
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I'm sorry but you do not use the legacy version of Python installed by default and QGIS use exclusively this Apple Python, not another version of Python.
The site-packages of the Apple Python is /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages and not /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/. It is another version of Python (from ...
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why MICRODEM with Parallels when you have many native possibilities on Mac ? .
Applications:
GRASS GIS from William Kyngesburye's website, for example, the best one.
GvSIG which can handle DEMs
OSSIM and OSSIMPLANET specialized in working with DEMs
LandSerf specialized in working with DEMs
in the shell:
GDAL as as pointed out by ShaunLangley
Python ...
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There is no 'out of the box' solution for you, unless someone else out there has come up with a patch or mod.
The API Doc for OpenLayers.Control.Navigation clearly shows that the only options available to you are to either disable or enable scrolling. There was a revision made a few months ago for pinch-zoom, but that's it as far as touch pads are ...
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I'm going to take a guess and say that you need to pass --disable-dependency-tracking as an argument to ./configure. Usually Configure will set up Makefiles so that "dependency tracking" information is gathered by invoking GCC using -M* flags. These flags cannot be used when multiple --arch flags are passed to generate fat binaries.
Just a guess---can't say ...
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I think this is possible. I do not use the Arc tool suite, but I have other programs that I run in Linux and Windows virtual machines on my Mac.
I only run the Linux or Windows specific code in the VM. Even then, I have mounted my OS X box in the VM, and work in OS X folders. Anything which does not require the VM is run on OS X, in those same folders, but ...
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