Questions tagged [osgeo]
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (http://www.osgeo.org), or OSGeo, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of open geospatial technologies and data.
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What is the OSGeo4W-equivalent for Linux?
OSGeo4W is a windows based stack of GeoFOSS which is based upon cygwin.
I know there is a package listing describing what is inside the OSGeo4W binary package and I could fetch and install every ...
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How to install GDAL/OGR with GRASS vector support?
The GRASS 6.4.3Svn for Windows that i have in my machine does not have GDAL/OGR support. Is there any library (libgrass) for Windows to add into existing GRASS installation. If not, how to build or ...
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How to embed an OpenLayers map in a blog post?
I have a map in GeoServer which I need to publish in a blog post.
I'm pretty sure this is possible but I am not managing to make it work.
I'm posting the html source code from the openlayers layer ...
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VSIMalloc3() and UnifiedSrcDensity mask errors when running gdal_warp in OSGEO4w shell
This is related to gdal.py as part of bat script in windows 7
I am getting
ERROR 2: VSIMalloc3(): Out of memory allocating 854522136 bytes.
ERROR 2: Out of memory allocating 119813400 bytes ...
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What are my options for Server side clustering using open source GIS tools?
I need to make a webapp that will show over 40K Points on a map. These points are all across the globe. Using WFS Service and OpenLayers, it is possible to do clustering on small set of points, but ...
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Converting arcpy based python script to OGR for semi-automated Metadata creation
I have created a script to automatically generate base ANZLIC standard metadata using arcpy based coding. Can anyone help me convert it to OGR/GDAL python? This is so that it can be run in QGIS and ...
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Why do I get different results with gdal_calc within the osgeo4w shell and QGIS' raster calculator?
I'm just wanting to make a simple map algebra operation in the osgeo4w shell using gdal_calc but I get wrong results when I divide one raster with the other. When I use the same rasters in QGIS and ...
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How to exactly copy one installation to another PC?
I've installed qgis on one workstation using OSGeo4w.
I've launched the installer from a local folder and I have downloaded source files on a remote mapped drive.
Frequently I relaunch OSGeo4w to ...
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Is there a way to properly have GDAL raise exceptions in Python?
I am working with GDAL in Python and have wanted to get GDAL to raise exceptions so that I can do something useful with them. For instance if a file cannot be opened with gdal.Open() I would like to ...
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Import Error while Importing osgeo package [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to install GDAL with Python on windows?
I have downloaded Fwtools for python2.5 from http://fwtools.maptools.org(windows installer) after installing it, it was giving ...
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What is the shell command for the tool 'simplify geometry' in QGIS?
I was wanting to batch the tool 'simplify geometry' for a set of shapefiles, in the osgeo shell.
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List of desktop GIS FOSS case studies
I think we should create a list of best desktop GIS FOSS case studies. First of all this list will be useful to anyone who considers desktop GIS FOSS for a project as an viable alternative.
