Tag Archives: GIS
Using QGIS in the Cloud with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
It’s easy to run a popular open-source geospatial suite on this hosted cloud platform: AWS. QGIS is a great piece of software, and I would really recommend you try it out if you are currently working with ArcGIS, MapInfo or any other piece of GIS software. However, if you don’t have admin rights on your...
xyHt Weekly News Links: 06/19/2020
*Click here to visit xyHt’s Virtual Trade Show* Recovery is Coming for Civil Construction 5 Questions on the Synergy of BIM and GIS 3D Laser Scanning Puts Crime Scene in the Courtroom New Precision 3D Topo and Hydro Software Microdrones Invites You to Play the Ultimate Surveying Game Show: SURVEYOR SAYS.
xyHt Weekly News Links: 5/29/2020
*Click here to visit xyHt’s Virtual Trade Show* How you Build Automated CAD-GIS Workflows 5 Questions on the Synergy of BIM and GIS Commercial UAV Expo Europe 2020 Goes Virtual Integrating UAV-based Lidar and Photogrammetry ASPRS Geo Week Goes Virtual Chinese Surveyors Reach Everest Peak
Build a Survey Tracker Map
We all have a little more time on our hands at the moment and it seems like the perfect time to do a little tidy of some of our data and do a little organization. In fact, I’m going to walk you through setting up something that clients have asked me to build for them...
Creating a Web Map Using Mapbox
This blog is born out of pure frustration and my competitive nature. When I was looking at web mapping libraries, I looked at Mapbox and thought, “That will be easy.” Three days later I was pulling my hair out—then the next day I was smiling and happy. You see, Mapbox is similar to Leaflet in...
3D and Geospatial Infrastructure
When I look ahead to the future of geospatial infrastructure and 3D, the words that come to mind are: more, faster, and … more! Humans are poor prognosticators when confronted with exponentially increasing or improving factors, and today we see an explosion of capability and content in the geospatial world that will lead to new...
