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Mapperz, Blogger, GIS Cartographer & Consultant, Geo-Innovator - Senior Mapping Guru & Part-time Numpty

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May
8
comment How do I fill in serial letters (AA, AB,AC…,BA,BB,BC…ZZ) to a shape?
You might want to load this data into a postgis data - then you can apply spatial logical with your AA to ZZ indexing.
May
8
comment How to get polygons from PostGIS table to PHP array best?
postgis.org/documentation/manual-svn/ST_GeomFromGeoJSON.html will take GeoJSON and import it into PostGIS
May
8
comment How to get polygons from PostGIS table to PHP array best?
Posted a longer answer basis on @danijar feedback.
May
8
answered How to get polygons from PostGIS table to PHP array best?
May
8
answered How to divide a polygon with another polygon
May
8
revised How to divide a polygon with another polygon
removed excessive question marks
May
8
comment How to get polygons from PostGIS table to PHP array best?
JSON might be a better solution postgis.org/docs/ST_AsGeoJSON.html is fast with openlayers
May
8
comment Should I use File Geodatabase (*.gdb), Personal Geodatabase (*.mdb) or shapefiles?
If sharing data outside of ESRI environment then Shapefile - If not then File Geodatabase are the way to go (larger databases can be handled)
May
7
comment Webservices for GPS (Upload on DB and display it)
Would the Garmin Web Services API of interest? developer.garmin.com/web-products/web-services
May
7
comment Sort a feature table by geographic location
What Coordinate System are you using?
May
7
comment How to rotate (svg) symbols in QGIS map composer to match map rotation?
See this closed question gis.stackexchange.com/questions/27149/…
May
7
revised Hillshade for 30m NED at continental scale
typo in title
May
7
comment Hillshade for 30m NED at continental scale
What GIS/Raster Software are you using?
May
7
comment Is ArcGIS available on Ubuntu?
QGIS 1.9 (2.0) with direct editing with Oracle Spatial Connection is improving our workflow - now we do not need ESRI products.
May
7
reviewed Approve suggested edit on how can use a offline basemap?
May
7
comment Is ArcGIS available on Ubuntu?
ArcGIS - Only Redhat for Linux resources.arcgis.com/en/help/system-requirements/10.1/…
May
7
comment Is ArcGIS available on Ubuntu?
QGIS 1.9 (alpha) has direct Oracle Spatial connection - making ESRI products redundant in our work.
May
7
comment how can use a offline basemap?
Do you need to use ESRI Basemaps? There are plenty of OFFLINE OpenStreeMap Projects - official wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Offline_Openstreetmap
May
7
comment Is it possible to integrate the mapping capabilities of QGIS with Stata?
QGIS is python based so is there a Stata python library? MIT do presbrey.mit.edu/PyDTA
May
7
comment Any Piri Reis shapefiles?
Tip:in Google Earth right click the KMZ and do properties and there is a Transparency slider, move towards 'clear' and you can see the differences with the modern world.