ArcGIS server vs. Open Source GIS solutions
originally posted from our friends @mappinggis Which program is better suited to serve geographic data on the web? ArcGIS Server form ESRI or open source ? This question is common in mailing lists…
Tag: ArcGIS
Designing a Vintage Themed Map with ArcGIS
Yes it is Possible Actually its not that difficult to design a vintage themed map. While I worked at the Library of Congress the person who held the…
Mr. Dangermond, money and the need to work with ArcGIS
The last week one headline hit the floor of some GIS-blogs in the US: Jack Dangermond, the founder of GIS -ahm I mean ESRI- pledged about $1 billion…
ILWIS GIS – Tutorial I [Introduction]
Today I’ll start with a new series of tutorials for an open Source GIS called “ILWIS GIS“. ILWIS is the short term for “Integrated Land and Water Information System”…
QGIS 2.2 is coming. Be prepared!
The undercover GIS queen “Underdark” a.k.a. Anita Graser came up with this headline today and we had seen some little insight in the upcoming QGIS release already. So…
Install QGIS 2.0 on Ubuntu
Today QGIS 2.0 was officially released and we will come up with several tutorials in the next weeks. First of all: the installation. As we are fans of…
short announcement: QGIS 2.0.1 Dufour now available on Ubuntu
Times are changing and so should a GIS. Since a long time there was the announcement to release QGIS 2.0 to the public by June. But as there…
OpenSource QGIS + PostGIS installation: “the Ubuntu way”
A lot of you out there are probably working on Windows Systems using ArcGIS and I have to admit that the possibilities with ArcINFO in the background and…
short announcement: geological maps for Spain
Christoph already wrote an article about “How to find geospatial data for Spain” and also mentioned the IGME page but thanks to Mr. Nölte from the Dechenhöhle in…
Online GeoJSON Editor
The web is built upon a small set of languages that are present everywhere. Besides HTML, Javascript is the most common technology around here. So it is not…
What’s new in ArcGIS 10.2
One hot topic on this year User Conference from ESRI in San Diego was the upcomming release of 10.2: Tweets über “#arcgis #esriuc” Until now the ESRI ArcGIS…
QGIS Tutorial III: from data to map – visualize data in a map
In our last session we started with some topographic “pre”-map as we prepared everything to create a printable map with QGIS which shows heights in a special area.…