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What software do you use as complementary to your GIS desktop/server in your work as GIS programmers/analysts and what programs are an absolute must you can't do without?
Question from my father who is looking to explore alternatives to Manifold:
"I am an independent environment consultant who is a heavy user of GIS for spatial data crunching, geo-referencing self-digitised maps, terrain modelling using LIDAR and…
I am taking the step to start a small business consultancy using digital map technology to assist retail business to better understand their environment and make informed location based decision. My focus is retail business and service planning,…
The icons almost make it look like the software is ArcReader or an ArcEngine based, but it's hard to tell from the video. I supposed it could not be GIS software at all.
Is anyone familiar with this software?
Here's the video…
I'm searching for a tool like something around a "GIS based Customer Relationships Management Tool". The functionality I am looking for is:
collect: collecting customer related data in several formats like e-mails, postal letter as scans,…
I've always been into spatial thinking and maps, and it's been a long time I dream of a tool/app that would allow me to have my own customized interactive maps. But now that I'm about to enter real estate development, it has become an absolute…
What software or template does Max Fisher use to create his maps for the Washington Post?
Do you recognise the software used to make this map?
As an example:
More examples…
As GIS/cartography capable people... what do you advise when faced with "can you show me how to make a simple map?" questions from non-GIS capable people? Some answers I can think of (depending on the enquirer) are:
Go to Google Maps and use their…
I am new to GIS and am currently doing a project related to GIS.
Can somebody recommend me a good GIS software that can:
Create custom indoor maps
Do custom routes based on custom criteria
Generated map can be used for directions on mobile
I've been tasked with determining if certain houses in a specific area won't be covered by a proposed radio network. The houses and stations are fixed but I'm using RadioMobile which doesn't seem to have a batch RadioLink feature (gets the direct…
Is there a lib (or api) that gives you a list of points that make a zone bound (circle, square or more complicated) when you give it a city name.
Given an iso city name (does this even exists?)
Ex:
Asking for 'Paris'
answer is :
south: 40.2
north:…
I am trying to use Azure Functions as an API that returns a set of boxes(Lat Lng for each corner) along a route, final scope is to identify if a point is located near the route based on an offset distance.
For browser, I have found out that…
I have a large collection of geological maps, scanned in format .jpeg, that cover an important region. Each original map's dimensions are 100cm length by 50cm height.
Analyse map by map all these datas makes very difficult to construct something…
