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comment Best definition for GIS today?
ok thanks, maybe next time - happy to see how this goes
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answered How do you cite ArcGIS?
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answered 3D visualization for marine navigation
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revised What raster-based GIS systems really work?
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comment What raster-based GIS systems really work?
+1 for R and GDAL, R can be used for a lot of general array operations and with rgdal support import/export is good - raster can make that and other things a lot simpler, but getting under the hood closer to R, and the out of memory links in rgdal can be helpful, and there is support for out of memory arrays with the ff package.
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answered What raster-based GIS systems really work?
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answered Generate points that lie inside polygon
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comment Reading GeoTiff using .NET
otherwise the mapwindow api might be useful, I'm sure there's others too which I'll post if I remember
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comment Reading GeoTiff using .NET
You could use Manifold: manifold.net, but you would need at least their runtime to distribute with your application. You would have to read the GeoTIFF as a Manifold component before querying from it though, which may be a no go for you. It's all managed VC++ under the hood, and their GeoTIFF reader is written by them. You can test with VBScript or C# scripts inside the application, and then port to an external app in C# or whatever.
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comment R: Download a large DEM, change projection, and adjust to smaller scale
it's a good idea to add (lossless) compression and tiling (defaults to 256x256) to the GeoTIFF from gdalwarp if your target can handle it: -co COMPRESS=LZW -co TILED=YES
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comment GIS for the masses?
because it's an affordable, readily available and easy to use application that is used by the masses and can do everything dude asks for. I didn't know that explanatory commentary was required here, but whatever
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comment LatLon or LonLat, what's the “right” way to display coordinates and inputs?
stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2004-August/056560.html
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comment What will GIS be like in 5 years (and in 50)?
manifold 9.0 no doubt :)
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comment Java, GIS knowledge…What next?
This question is too vague and you should work on being more specific, but you might be interested in this book: @book{wood2002java, title={{Java programming for spatial sciences}}, author={Wood, J.}, isbn={0415260981}, year={2002}, publisher={CRC} }