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Esri 2014 – Recap

The Esri conference is over for another year. I wanted to write something about it.  It is almost a requirement to write a recap of a conference. At the same time, there are really enough of those, and who honestly wants to read another missive about what sessions, or parties, or workshops I went to? …

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CalGIS 2014 – Reflections on past and future

It has now been a couple of days since the end of the CalGIS conference for 2014.  For those that do not know, CalGIS is the California GIS Conference.  It is hosted every year by the four chapters of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA):  Northern California Chapter of URISA, Central California Chapter …

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QGIS – Vector Data Connection

Update – April 2017 Many things have changed with QGIS over the last few years since this post was written. I thought it worth the time to revisit the topic and expand its scope. Please take a look at my new post: QGIS – Loading Data —————– One of the major differences between many COTS …

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Open Source GIS Central – OSGeo.org

Finding open source GIS software is as simple as a Google Search.  Of course, once you do that, sorting through the hundreds of returns to find something useful, is likely to be a challenge.  If you look at the results for “open source GIS”, the first would seem likely.  That site, however, hasn’t been updated …

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