danagerous

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I have a GIS, Resource Management and IT background. I currently work as a GIS analyst/programmer on the ESRI and Oracle platform. I use SQL, arcpy and Python as my scripting languages of choice. I wanted to gain some experience in the web mapping environment and have been using Google's Mapping API and recently Fusion Tables.

I've also started using QGIS to try another GIS software to help in my work.

Thanks for reading.

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May 21	comment	Google Maps - Use fitBounds on KML polygon fusion table layer In the line/arc example above you will find the UNION code example in the 'ZoomTo' function. In the source code it looks like this: bounds.union(geoXml.docs[0].gpolygons[0].bounds);
Apr 30	answered	Has anyone found any informative documentation about ESRI's ArcPy Python module?
Mar 13	comment	Python/Arc10- Loop through multiple feature datasets and Intersect Files @user10723. Could you mark this answer as accepted please? Thanks.
Mar 1	comment	Google Maps - Use fitBounds on KML polygon fusion table layer Thanks for pointing that out. I totally missed that (or more like was not looking for it at the time). I'll give it a try. Cheers.
Feb 27	comment	Google Maps - Use fitBounds on KML polygon fusion table layer @DemarsM. Fusion Tables uses the ST_INTERSECTS to find map features within a defined area. This may work. I have not tested it myself. I need to do the same for some of my queries so I will give this a try soon. I thought it was deprecated but apparently it is not. Failing that I would think that creating a KML that is a 'box' containing your area and adding to the table may work for your selection(s). Another possibility is parsing the rows necessary to capture the entire area. These are just guesses/suggestions at this point.
Feb 27	comment	Skill requirements and resources to run a private GIS consultancy/ GIS service providing firm? If i can offer another piece of advice...no one GIS tool does everything you need. I use open source and proprietary software (eg: I run Linux, OsX and Windows on three different machines with ESRI, GRASS, QGIS, Postgre/GIS, MySQL). It all depends on what the client is seeking and what is most cost effective for you and them. This all was built over time as contracts came through the door. I run all of this myself. Maybe one day i'll have a few other GIS professionals on staff. Right now i like running solo.
Feb 27	comment	Skill requirements and resources to run a private GIS consultancy/ GIS service providing firm? @Josh. Check with your local government/career center. I took a small business course in college but had a refresher through a local career center which is funded through provincial and federal government funding. It was free and only two days of my time. There are tons of resources and books so you can do it yourself. Some governments even provide templates. Part of your business plan should be to talk to similar businesses for your business research. Talk to people who already do it. Google 'small business' for where you live. Tons of resources i'm sure.
Feb 26	answered	Skill requirements and resources to run a private GIS consultancy/ GIS service providing firm?
Feb 25	comment	Google Maps - Use fitBounds on KML polygon fusion table layer I'd recommend moving this over to stackoverflow.
Feb 25	answered	Google Maps - Use fitBounds on KML polygon fusion table layer
Feb 19	comment	How do I georeference a ski map? Are you trying to achieve something like this GPS map for Alta Ski Area: mountaindynamics.com/en/resortm.php. I would say the only accurate way is as suggested above with up to date orthophoto's or go out and GPS the trails yourself for your final product which would be my preference :)
Feb 16	answered	Free Imagery WMS Feeds in QGIS
Jan 29	comment	Migrating existing ArcGIS 9.3 code to 10.1 The URL supplied doesn't work. Have you changed all reference to gp.* to arcpy.* in your code and imported the arcpy module? Arcpy is also case sensitive. For example arcpy.exists() will not work whereas arcpy.Exists() will work.
Jan 29	comment	Replace the data source for several layers in several mxds - from shapefiles to the ARCSDE data source When you say 'ESRI Replacing data source help' are you referring to arcpy.mapping scripting environment?
Jan 25	comment	Possible solution for dangling nodes? Sorry. I'm assuming ESRI software.
Jan 25	comment	Possible solution for dangling nodes? Arcs will always have a certain number of dangling nodes; that is simply the nature of arcs. However you could have a 3 way intersection where one road does not form the 'T' and the node is considered a dangling node. Polygons can have dangles which can be selected and deleted. It seemed like more of an issue in the old ARCINFO command line and coverage world while editing polygons. There is a topology rule for the 'must not have dangles' now. The resulting list could be extensive but they are easy to identify with topology and correct.
Jan 23	comment	How to set up the layer order with Google Maps API? This is a great question however looking at your tags you might get more responses on the stack overflow site. I'm fairly new to both though so i could be wrong.
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Jan 21	comment	Invalid topology error when running script There should be no difference between 10.0 or 10.1 as they both use arcpy. As user7172 suggested you should post the code to enable us to help.