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AvatarSid Feygin

Sid Feygin is currently working as Director of Product Development for REXP, a web mapping and integrated mobile survey services provider for organizations with geospatial water resource assessment needs. He has worked as an environmental and civil engineering consultant in Oregon and the Bay Area. He currently resides in San Francisco and is happy to respond to reader questions regarding open source GIS educational resources sid@rexp.org.

Spread the Word: GIS Day (November 16, 2011)

July 11, 2013November 13, 2011 by Sid Feygin

Started in 1999 as a part of Geography Awareness Week, GIS Day is a global event aimed at promoting GIS-based software and technology to businesses, … Read more

Categories GIS Learning Tags Geography, geography awareness week, gis, gis day, GIS education

Data for the People, by the People: Designing Smartphone-based GISystems for Environmental Resource Assessment

July 11, 2013September 26, 2011 by Sid Feygin

According to the most recent Nielsen data, smartphones comprise approximately 40% of mobile phones used by US citizens. As mobile device technologies (e.g., smartphones and … Read more

Categories GIS Software Tags Android, ArcGIS for Smartphones, iOS, lbs, ODK, Open Data Kit, participatory GIS, Renewable Explorations, REXP, smartphones

How to Go from GIS Novice to Pro without Spending a Dime

October 6, 2014September 15, 2011 by Sid Feygin

I have only taken one formal course in GIS; however, I consider myself a confident practitioner of the software and am constantly learning more despite … Read more

Categories GIS Software Tags GRASS GIS, how to, learning gis, MapServer, open source gis, PostGIS, QGIS, Quantum GIS
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