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Digital maps serve as effective tools when it comes to managing emergency situations like epidemics. Dr. John Snow (do not confuse it with the King beyond the wall) is considered to be the first to use typical Geographic Information Systems tools to analyze an emergency situation. The English doctor determined, after making a spatial analysis [...]
Sometimes when you find yourself in need for some spatial data like, roads, buildings, waterways, etc. you can check the OpenStreetMap Database. Maybe you will find something there. This can depend on your location. But if you want also to visualize, manage and analyze your data you can use the QGIS software and its QuickOSM [...]
Location: Bath - United Kingdom GIS property technician YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES: Processing and manipulating data as required to service the open water new connections process for loading into market and GIS systems Undertaking, monitoring, reporting and coordinating the daily processing of property and meter data Maintaining relevant data within customer billing, meter reading and GIS to required [...]
Location: Worthing, South East England, England GIS Analyst, Modelling and Forecasting projects. YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES: From modelling flood risk along our rivers to developing new flood forecasting approaches, you’ll solve complex problems, overcome challenges and develop your technical skills within our world class flood risk service. You will join our technical induction programme to learn how [...]
OSGeo4W is a binary distribution of a broad set of open source geospatial software for Windows environments. OSGeo4W includes QGIS, GDAL/OGR, GRASS as well as many other packages. Check the official website for more information: http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ Sometimes QGIS installation can be a troublemaker. For example you will install QGIS and you will notice that Style Manager will not show any symbols. The [...]
Maybe sometime you will need to edit some raster cells and change their values. Using the Serval QGIS Plugin you can do this. You can install this plugin by going to Plugins > Manage and Install Plugins and typing Serval in the search box. After the installation is done you can find the newly installed [...]
Location: Lingen and Osnabrück - Germany GIS Analyst YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES: Definition and execution of client specific data integration processes considering spatial and non-spatial datasets Creation of geospatial analyses and data migration procedures Process automation using standard software tools Project related documentation Quality assurance and control Support project teams in terms of spatial and data related matters [...]
pgRouting is an extension of PostGIS (geospatial database), which in turn, is an extension of PostgreSQL database system. It adds routing capabilities and network analysis functionalities to the PostGIS geospatial database. You can perform different network analysis, shortest paths, driving distances, service areas on a topological corrected network. To be able to perform route analysis [...]
For this exercise please use QGIS version 2.18. Various vector layers and tables (OGR, SpatiaLite, PostGIS, MSSQL Spatial or Oracle Spatial) can be edited in QGIS. Before you start a editing session in QGIS, make sure you set the right snapping options (Snapping Tolerance and Search Radius). In QGIS you can find these options in [...]
