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How To Make a Map From Open Data Using a Spreadsheet

October 6, 2016By GIS ContributorGIS Software

Jonathan Goldman explains in this tutorial how to extract an open data feed from a civic data portal and pull it into Google Sheets, and then map it quickly using Geosheets.

Ready for Summer – Remote Sensing of Bathing Water Quality

Remote sensing is being used to help researchers monitor water quality in lakes and coastal areas.

The Modifiable Areal Unit Problem and GIS

For most GIS practitioners, modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP) is something to be aware of when different analytical techniques are applied.

Maps are the primary tools by which spatial relationships are visualized. Maps therefore become important documents. There are several key elements that should be included each time a map is created in order to aid the viewer in understanding the communications of that map and to document the source of […]

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