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What are the FOSS equivalents to these ArcGIS products?
To store the data, the first two alternatives to mention are PostGIS and SpatiaLite.
SpatiaLite is a SQLite database with spatial capabilities which
means it is file based, compact, and fast.
PostGI …
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Alternatives to Network Analyst
spatiaite has routing capabiliies with a GUI. I have never tried it.
http://www.gaia-gis.it/spatialite/spatialite-network-2.3.1.html
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Seeking highly customizable GIS platform?
I am not experienced enough to give a give an answer from very many aspects, but...
I did my first things in GIS in ArcView 3.x writing in Avenue. I really liked the speed and possibilities. Then I ha …
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Remove Duplicate Polygons Using Open Source Tools
This is what I use to do in those cases.
As I understand it you will have to do a manual check to decide which one has the right attribute. Then I use to do it in two steps. First I make a table or a …
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Calculating polygon length and width using open source GIS?
FWIW, in Postgis is a function since 1.5, ST_Longestline that returns the longestline between two geometries. If you feed that function with the same geometry twice instead of two different, you will …
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What is spatial query tool for laymen?
You say that you have a spatial representation of the neigborhoods but the crime data is just addresses.
there is to ways to connect the crimes to the neighborhoods.
get a list of all addresses in …
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How to bring polygons closer to a point?
making the polygons bigger should give the desired effect.
http://postgis.net/docs/manual-1.5/ST_Scale.html
/Nicklas
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3D snapping in open source platforms
First, I don't know if any open source desktop gis is capable of 3d-snapping, but the wonderful thing about open source is that you can always fix it yourself or get someone else to fix it.
Use some …