GIS Software
Information about GIS software including both commercial and open source GIS applications. This category covers desktop GIS (Esri’s ArcGIS suite, MapInfo, QGIS, and GRASS) as well as web mapping, mobile GIS, and component GIS.
Building Attribute and Value Crosswalks Using Esri’s Data Interoperability Extension
Jeff Vreeland of Geographic Information Services, Inc., a professional services GIS consulting firm, provides an introduction to a recent article from GISI about building building attribute and value crosswalks using Esri’s Data Interoperability Extension.
Making Maps with D3
D3 is a JavaScript data visualization library using HTML, SVG and CSS. D3 stands for Data Driven Documents and was developed by Mike Bostock, Jeff Heer and Vadim Ogievetsky as a successor to the Protovis framework. Making maps with D3 The 3.0 release of D3 now includes a geographic projection system. Common geographic projections are included in the default build of [...]
Wearable Cartography – Portable Mapping System
Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed a portal mapping system that transmits remotely a digital map of the wearer’s environment. The concept behind the technology is known as simultaneous localization and mapping or SLAM and previously had only been applied to mapping by robots. The device was conceived as a way to [...]
MXD – ArcMap Document File
Files with the extension .mxd are ArcMap document files. MXD files are created by Esri’s ArcMap, a component of the ArcGIS suite of GIS software.
Weave – Open Source Data Visualization
Weave is an open source offering from the Open Indicators Consortium. OIC is a collaboration with the Institute for Visualization and Perception Research (IVPR) at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and counts membership from a range of local, regional, state, and federal government agencies and nonprofits. Weave takes its name from the software description: Web-based Analysis and Visualization Environment and [...]