ASIST

Advanced Spatial Information Systems and Technology

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ASIST turned 3 today!

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Map Projections [4]

For Map lovers, something totally worth reading again from MapLab at Wired. Follow the link and see how people obsess about map projections.

http://wrd.cm/19PSES3

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Map Projections [3]

And the third posting at MapLab is a comparison between the  Cahill’s Butterfly and the Dymaxion Projections. Very interesting article!

With all of it's drawback, I find the Dymaxion more interesting!

http://wrd.cm/ISeoGp

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Map Projections [2]

Following up one the first article published by MapLab of Wired.

The second posting was, in case you missed it, back on November 7th 2013 and it's about the Lambert Conformal Conic projection.

http://wrd.cm/1jex57t

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Peru’s Nazca Lines

To view more photos and videos of the Nazca Lines, visit the lineas de nazca and Lineas De Nazca location pages.

The Nazca Lines in the desert of southern Peru are a series of large designs etched into the arid ground. These designs, called geoglyphs by historians and archaeologists, depict animals, plants and geometric figures and are believed to have been a part of astronomical or religious rituals. Although the exact origins of the Nazca Lines are unknown, some scholars believe they were created by the Nazca culture between 400 and 650 AD. In 1994, they were designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The figures can be seen by plane, from atop the surrounding foothills, and through the photos and videos of Instagrammers fortunate enough to have made the trek.

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Youth unemployment in Europe

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Map Projections

The Wired Magazins' new Blog "MapLab" is going to run a series of posting abut map projections. While some of us use GIS and other map making tools on a daily basis, probably we had to explain what map projections are and why do we have them, few times in our careers. Now, MapLab is going to give, in layman's language, some historical background, and the purposes of what for these projections were meant for, when they were first designed by their creators, and so forth.

The first one is about Mercator. I believe it's a posting totally worth reading.

Link to the blog posting: http://bit.ly/12BWDnn

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If you use QGIS you may not want to miss this one!

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say you like Remote Sensing tasks, and you like Landsat data, and you like QGIS...then why not take a look at this page/tutorial. You won't need $x000.00 of software, nor expensive data plus you don't have to be an expert because the tutorial is very concise and esy to follow.

I wish I had this many years back when I was trying to do the same for a project.

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Raster Histogram in QGIS

The issue with the broken histogram creation tool in QGIS annoyed me far too long. Sometimes you just need a quick glance on the histogram of a raster just to make a decision on how to process it o...

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Data Galore - President's Obama Executive Order

Remember Data.gov? The President does, and he has issued an executive order that should give the information portal a shot in the arm. Starting this

According to the White House blog, this means new data will be served in CSV, XML, JSON and other machine readable formats, and will even be accessible via API in some situations.

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As of May 7th 2013 #MapBox & #OSM have made available the new Mapping Editor for OpenStreetMap.org

This thing look impressive. I think it'll make huge difference around the world, and I know many people and organizations relying on OSM for Humanitarian Assistance Projects.

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A nice and simple comparison of Web Mapping Tools

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The next best thing to ArcGIS Model Builder...but it is likely not for long on second place. I am really interested and happy to see this tool progressing. Hopefully I get to see this far better and fore one, a stable and reliable tool.

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QGIS 2.0 coming June 7th

A quick presentation about all the new developments and features in QGIS 2.0

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SQL Stuff :D

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