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I've been a career GIS user for 15+ years. I am particularly interested in extending Business Intelligence through spatial analysis. Examples include enhanced retail/real estate decision-making during site selection, trade area analysis, customer research, and marketing through demographic analysis.

I have been using Python more and more for process automation, developing new tools and database maniupulation.

Most of my career I've been in the ESRI camp, but am now starting to use more open-source tools (QGIS, PostGIS, GDAL/OGR, web-based GIS) so I can "choose the right tool" for the job.


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comment Is there an address gazetteer for QGIS?
please ask your question as a separate question, and reference this question for details. Thanks.
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comment How to truncate field names to 10 characters in model builder
Are you trying to edit field NAMES (ie- column headers) or field VALUES (the data in the row/cell)? These 2 questions have very different answers.
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revised How to create a trade flow map in Arcgis or any free software
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revised Are there any Indoor GIS platforms?
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comment Mapping elements in a warehouse
Take a look at the other questions tagged with indoor, which may help you with your other tasks.
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revised Mapping elements in a warehouse
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revised How to create a trade flow map in Arcgis or any free software
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revised How to create a trade flow map in Arcgis or any free software
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revised How to make radial flow map showing curved lines over short distances (20km) (ArcGIS 10)
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answered How to create a trade flow map in Arcgis or any free software
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revised How to create spider diagrams (hub lines) in PostGIS?
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revised How to insert a GeoJSON polygon into a PostGIS table?
Updated duplicate code from OP based on his answer at http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/60944/postgis-error-reads-geometry-has-z-dimension-but-column-does-not
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revised ArcGIS for Server or its alternative?
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comment How to find parcels related to geocoded addresses?
Can you post a screenshot of 1 or 2 records from each table? Or better yet, a small sample subset for us to look at? You might get better suggestions that way.
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comment How to find parcels related to geocoded addresses?
I assume you have your own parcel polygon layer that you are trying to compare the points to, correct? If so, does the parcel layer have an address field that you can compare to the address field in the geocoded table?
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revised What free programs should every GIS user have installed?
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answered Is there a way to connect to PostgreSQL in ArcCatalog without SDE?
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revised Near real-time sources of lightning strike data
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