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Best practices for managing geospatial data
versioning
best-practices
data-management
storage
asked Aug 4 '10 at 6:42
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What are the best news resources for the GIS community?
learning-resources
asked Jul 23 '10 at 7:24
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Open source methods for kriging?
open-source
spatial-statistics
interpolation
asked Aug 11 '10 at 1:46
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What is Lanczos resampling useful for in a spatial context?
raster
gdal
resampling
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How can I measure area from geographic coordinates?
projection
understanding
area
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Surface distance on DEM between two coordinates
distance
dem
scale
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Background reading on using GPUs for GIS?
geoprocessing
literature
gpgpu
asked Jul 26 '10 at 6:46
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Data source for determining postal codes given location?
datasets
address
postal-code
asked Apr 12 '11 at 18:56
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What is the most annoying fact about the GIS market/industry?
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How do I explain what GIS is for the 11 year old kid?
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Great GIS, maps & cartography quotes
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How to install GDAL with Python on windows?
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GIS Pros - what lives on your bookshelf?
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Great GIS, maps & cartography quotes
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What raster-based GIS systems really work?
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Concave Hull: Definition, Algorithms and Practical Solutions
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Nearest neighbor between a point layer and a line layer
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Are there open source alternatives to ArcCatalog?
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Define “geospatial data” for a non-GIS professional
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What is the difference between DEM, DSM and DTM?
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Where to download free elevation data for Europe?
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Simplifying adjacent polygons
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Disaggregating aggregate GIS data using remote sensing
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Is there a standard vertical datum for meters below the WGS84 ellipsoid, or below MSL?
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How can I work with 3+ Gigabyte TIFF Files?
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What was the rationale for the non-standard UTM zones near Norway?
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Simplifying geometries (generalization)
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9
How can I convert an excel file with x, y columns to a shapefile?
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9
Best open source operating system for open source GIS?
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9
ArcGIS 10 on Linux
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Looking for a pythonic way to calculate the length of a WKT linestring
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9
Spatial operators in R?
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How do you cite ArcGIS?
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Where can I find latitude and longitude data for the borders of U.S. Congressional districts?
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Are there any open source tools to detect and fill sinks on a DEM?
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How to stop ArcGIS Python script printing warnings and other outputs to the console
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GIS Pros - what lives on your bookshelf?
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How to apply a Majority filter in GRASS GIS?
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