Back in 2007, the Sierra Club requested a copy of what it thought was a public record from Orange County, California, covering information like the location and addresses of 640,000 land parcels in ...
The California Supreme Court ruled this week that an electronic database, maintained in a geographic information system (GIS) file format, is a public record subject to disclosure in that format under ...
Rod Bassler knows all too well what it's like to stand between people and their data. As a GIS analyst and cartographer at several public agencies for 15 years, he has often found himself the lone ...
What is MapWindow GIS + MMP Tools? MMP Tools is a set of custom tools for the free MapWindow GIS. Together they can be used for the following: As a front-end to MMP when creating nutrient management ...
If you've ever zoomed around the globe with Google Earth, you know how much fun it can be to work with geospatial data. When I need a diversion, I often fire up Google Earth and float above the ...
A Shapefile is a GIS file in which vectors like points, lines, and polygons are used to represent geo locations like rivers, lakes, country boundaries, well, and more. Each of its elements or items ...
Tableau has significantly expanded its custom mapping capabilities in version 10.2, allowing for importing your own geospatial files in GeoJSON, shapefile, KML and MapInfo formats. I finally had a ...
In this article, I am going to talk about what is a FIT file and how you can view and convert it on your Windows 11/10 PC. FIT, an acronym for Flexible and Interoperable Data Transfer, is a ...