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comment How to plot contours on a map with ggplot2 when data is on an irregular grid?
What you should do is wait a bit on SO to see if an answer emerges and if not, flag your question with a request to migrate it here.
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comment How to combine stacked polygons within a shapefile?
It used to be possible just to union a layer with itself. Has that changed?
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reviewed Approve suggested edit on data tag wiki
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comment Help excel table not transferring to Arc correctly!
You might find my explanation at quantdec.com/SYSEN597/GTKAV/section4/chapter_15a.htm#Recipe to be helpful.
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revised Why do I need to know what “endianness” is?
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comment What's regular blocking arrangement ? (GDAL)
Until this question showed up, the top Google hit for the error message text was at trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/frmts_wtkraster.html. Section 3.2 looks like the relevant one (although its answer may be unsatisfactory: "the driver is under development, and will work with more raster arrangements ASAP").
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comment Why do I need to know what “endianness” is?
Do you plan to write low-level code to read shapefiles or rasters at the binary level? You might be interested in a closely related thread, Oddities in the Shapefile Technical Specification.
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comment “GIS” Mapping on Monument - Scaling
+1 It's always fun to see GIS used for analyzing things at unexpected scales--microchips, paintings, the cosmos, and now building materials!
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reviewed Approve suggested edit on Can I use the globe plugin on a Windows OS and where can I find the plugin for QGIS?
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reviewed Edit suggested edit on How to assign a SQL query to a table attribute?
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revised How to assign a SQL query to a table attribute?
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reviewed Approve suggested edit on How to convert a txt file to shp?
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reviewed Approve suggested edit on facilities reached from a road within 5 minutes using New Service Area
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reviewed Approve suggested edit on Arcgis javascript API & highcharts libraries
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comment How to find out what projection my data is using?
You might have interchanged latitude and longitude.
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comment How to find out what projection my data is using?
Please search our site for solutions. If they don't help, you will need to supply more detailed information: "off" and "skewed" are merely suggestive, whereas quantitative information about the errors can help solve the problem.
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comment Stacking attributes in a text field
"\" looks like a typo for "\\".
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revised Is it possible to colour areas between (vector) contours?
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comment How does QGIS calculate the area of a polygon?
If you will be comparing these implementations in any way, be aware that the areas could disagree for reasons other than the area-computation algorithm. For instance, the GISes may internally change coordinates in order to fit within an area of interest or predefined project boundaries. Some GISes use floating point coordinates and others use (scaled) integer coordinates. Also, it would be practically meaningless to do timing comparisons unless you could identify and control for various overhead operations. So in the end, given no comparison of time or accuracy will be valid, what's the point?