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Avid Geo – January Meet-up!
Tweet Avid Geo, Boston’s #1 social spatial group, is having it’s January meet-up on the 24th. This month’s activity is a OpenStreetMap MassGIS building import. For all the meeting details check out the group’s Meet-Up site. This crew knows how … Continue reading
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Geo Terms I Want to See Disappear in 2013
Tweet Geo/spatial/location/GIS is everywhere now-a-days. That is awesome. No longer is what we do a specific niche that is only found in a small set of industries. Openstreetmap, location aware devices, dropping pins, Google maps – everywhere you look geo/spatial/location/GIS … Continue reading
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Boston Esri Dev Meet-Up 2/7/2013
Tweet The folks from the Esri Dev Meet-Up Team (@AmyNiessen and @geeknixta) will be back in town on February 7 for a winter Esri Dev Meet-Up at the Bell in Hand in Boston. I’ve been to a few of their events … Continue reading
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The Worst “Heat Map” I Have Ever Seen
Tweet I am no fan of geographic heatmaps, especially those that are really just density maps or poorly interpolated surfaces. To me the term “heatmap” is just an overused marketing term. So, when I came across this “heatmap” today I … Continue reading
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Happy Geo-Turkey Day
Tweet I love map humor! Enjoy the holiday and as always, stay spatial!
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GeoAwesome: Ignite Spatial Boston 2012
Tweet One word: GeoAwesome. That is how I would describe tonight’s (11/14/2012, GIS Day!) Ignite Spatial Boston 4, which was organized by Avid Geo, hosted by the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard University and sponsored by AppGeo, Axis Maps, NBT … Continue reading
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More Spatial SQL – Calculating Lines between Points
Tweet Recently I posted some tips and example script to measure distance between points using SQL Server. The obvious extension of this script would be to generate the lines between two points. I wanted to create a script that took … Continue reading
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Hurricane Sandy! Data and Maps
Tweet I noticed earlier that my post about last year’s major New England storm was getting a ton of action today. It’s probably time to get some info up about Hurricane Sandy. I’ll keep updating this page when I come … Continue reading
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Spatial SQL for the Geographer – STDistance Example
Tweet When I put together the Spatial SQL for the Geographer posts I never wrote anything about measuring distance. Geographers often need to know the distance between locations, as distance decay is one of those things we find important. Fortunately … Continue reading
Spatial SQL Tools from Codeplex
Tweet When I wrote the Spatial SQL (or SQL Spatial, whatever you want to call it, I use both interchangeably for better or worse) blog posts I never mentioned a set of tools that are available which greatly expand the … Continue reading