File Geodatabase API - To support both Windows/Linux and 32/64 bit
File Geodatabase API - 4 platform final release set for mid-May
… we’ve received a lot of feedback from everyone wanting 64-bit Linux and we’ve made faster progress than we’d expected on the 64-bit Linux port, so we’ve decided to delay the initial release a few weeks and have a single release that supports all 4 platforms. Bazaam!
Cool, now all I have to do is find a customer that actually wants data delivered in the File Geodatabase format. Kablooey!
PSA — PostGIS in Action to Arrive April 13th
PostGIS In Action Book Cover
Yup, the book we have all been waiting for is just about here. Next Wednesday PostGIS in Action will hit the shelves. I’ve been reviewing it over the last year or so and let me just say it is full of awesome. I can’t say enough that everyone who uses or wants to use PostGIS needs to get this.
I’m totally all over the eBook next week…
PSA — PostGIS in Action to Arrive April 13th
PostGIS In Action Book Cover
Yup, the book we have all been waiting for is just about here. Next Wednesday PostGIS in Action will hit the shelves. I’ve been reviewing it over the last year or so and let me just say it is full of awesome. I can’t say enough that everyone who uses or wants to use PostGIS needs to get this.
I’m totally all over the eBook next week…
More Command Line GIS Goodness
I’ve been talking quite a bit about using ArcPy and Python as a means to go back to using the command line for GIS analysis. You get such a better understanding as to what you are doing with the geospatial analysis functions when you type them in manually rather than using a wizard.
There are other ways to do this though. Darren Cope has a short blog post on using OGR for clipping GIS data files. Simple and sweet!
It’s just that easy, and best of all it just works when all other methods fail!
That’s just it though, command line usually works when GUI’s fail. The logical outcome is stop using the darn GUI!
More Command Line GIS Goodness
I’ve been talking quite a bit about using ArcPy and Python as a means to go back to using the command line for GIS analysis. You get such a better understanding as to what you are doing with the geospatial analysis functions when you type them in manually rather than using a wizard.
There are other ways to do this though. Darren Cope has a short blog post on using OGR for clipping GIS data files. Simple and sweet!
It’s just that easy, and best of all it just works when all other methods fail!
That’s just it though, command line usually works when GUI’s fail. The logical outcome is stop using the darn GUI!
New York City Census Analysis — Using Google Fusion Tables
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Simple wins out every time. Case in point, working with demographic information. Sure you can spin it up all up in a spatial database, analyse it with R and then output some pretty PDFs. Or just roll it all in to Google Fusion Tables and output this beautiful thing.
John Keefe shows how he did it. Spoiler alert!
Using Google Fusion Tables made it super easy to manage, map and serve up a lot of data. And the FT feedback team was fantastic about responding to questions and glitches I encountered along the way.