GeoSpatial Knowledge Hive

GDAL & OGR libraries allow you to perform various GIS operations like, Flow Direction or working with DEM few raster & vector analysis outside GIS environment. Image by  Gerd Altmann  from  Pixabay   What Knowledge one should have :  Basic Programming, Python What software you need : Python IDLE or command line, GDAL libraries files (explained later) Installation : 1- Once you have Python installed. 2- Start python IDLE to check which version of python you are using available at top as shown        Python IDLE 3- Install two files available at link below based on your version of python. Download  Link :  http://www.gisinternals.com/query.html?content=filelist&file=release-1500-gdal-2-1-2-mapserver-7-0-2.zip Install first :  gdal-201-1500-core.msi  and then:   GDAL-2.1.2.win32-py2.7.msi * Note specify the path C:\Python27\ArcGIS10.3\Lib\site-packages\ for GDAL-2.1.2.win32-py3.2....

Polar Beer will become first ever specie to "extinct " because of adverse effect of Global Warming Image by  skeeze  from  Pixabay   What Ecologist are doing : Ecologist are using Satellite Images, to count polar beer. What Issue they Encounter : Differentiating Polar beer from white rock , issue is solved in a sense that polar beer has moving motion while rocks are static. image source: Sci-News.com image source: My Travel Tales   

ESRI Story Maps  Link to website: http://storymaps.esri.com/stories/2013/airports/ Image by  Emslichter  from  Pixabay   Which airport are among first 25 busiest : Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport Beijing Capital International Airport London Heathrow Airport Tokyo International Airport O'Hare International Airport Los Angeles International Airport Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport Dallas Fort Worth International Airport Soekarno-Hatta International Airport Dubai International Airport Frankfurt Airport Hong Kong International Airport Denver International Airport Suvarnabhumi Airport Singapore Changi Airport Amsterdam Schiphol Airport John F. Kennedy International Airport Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport Madrid Barajas Airport Ataturk International Airport Shanghai Pudong International Airport San Francisco International Airport McCarren International Airport Charlotte Douglas International Airport Phoe...

SmartMine technology team at GeoEngineers are tracking whales using GIS and Sensors  Image by skeeze from Pixabay Data Set: Cascadia Research, data set of whales around Hawaiian Island. (Dr. Robin Baird) Its visually pleasing:  http://whales.smartmine.com/ image source: http://whales.smartmine.com/ 

GeoSheets  relates google sheet data for Geo-spatial queries Image by digital designer from Pixabay Common Application : Geo-Coding, Business Maps Applications : https://www.geosheets.com/use_cases  Image Source: Geo-sheets  Image Source: Geo-sheets  Image sources: https://www.geosheets.com

Noise Pollution Mapping  Objective of website : Compute the noise level in your city Designed For:  DESIGNED FOR ACOUSTICIANS, RESEARCHERS, TEACHERS AND STUDENTS Data Set : GIS based  http://noisemap.orbisgis.org/ http://noisemap.orbisgis.org/

Geo Marketing is evolving field of marketing that uses GIS & Geography with modern IT Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay What it does : It analyze Target Market Customer Dynamics Market Expansion Strategy and much more using customer location. Any Example : Store wants to open a new chain in sector A, to select best location it will analyze a point that catches maximum customers using GIS. Around the world various companies provide Geo-Marketing services. How can you benefit:  A layman can make simple decisions using Google Maps or like products or online available tools like cartodb, mango maps etc  for simple decision making. image source:  Assignment Point

China launches world largest telescope "Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, or FAST" Investment :   $180 million Importance : Research, military, Space Control Research Area :  Tracing sign of intelligent extraterrestrial life.  Detecting gravitational waves.  Detecting radio emissions from stars and galaxies. image source: http://www.nydailynews.com/

Using Python to capitalize strings  - Add new field in Attribute Table - Go to Field Calculator  - Select Python  - use         .title()       .upper()       .lower() title= Abc upper= ABC lower = abc  Example=  FieldName.title() Image Source: Pixabay

Maptitude is a low cost commercial GIS software solution. What it used for: Higher level spatial analysis  Example: Geo-scientific, Environmental, Demographic   What are its Competitors:  SAGA GIS, QGIS and Esri ArcGIS  image sourcce: http://www.geo-matching.com/ Interesting  Features: -  3D Rendering  -  Loaded with Data set (transportation, demographic and many more) -  Good for Vehicle Management Applications (Routing) -  Beautiful Visualization   Purchasing a commercial GIS Software, maptitude is also one option.  Want to know more about it: Geo Matching explains in detail Click here   for more details. 

Perform Geocoding Use google Earth search any place, & save the KML layer result by right clicking. Open ArcMap , convert saved KML to ArcGIS Layer using " KML to Layer " tool,  Add new layer. Add Base Map, thereafter export layer to shapefile . image source:  google-earth.en. image source:  www.arkzoft.net    

What is Four Square Four Square is mapping application that finds nearby places such as coffee shop and others on map. How it works: It has 60 million venues in its database. www.mapbox.com How it is useful Planning journey Happy Hour Planning Transportation network   Nearby hospital   www.mapbox.com Anything Special: Custom styled maps,based on Mapbox 

Mapping has found its applications almost in every domain, Gaming domain now a days is utilizing full potential of GIS and mapping. Image by  philm1310  from  Pixabay   Among various popular games available GeoGuessr is one of its kind, very interesting. What it is: It gives you a picture of location and ask you to guess place on map. How it improves your knowledge: It answers your question, and tells you how far you have been in your guess numerically. What is link to site: https://geoguessr.com Source: https://geoguessr.com

Timed, accurate cute and safe self-driving cars prototype have been launched by google. apachebooster.com GIS and Self Navigation Deployed with high quality sensors, these cars can navigate through roads. Optimal routing, maps have high importance in Google Self Driving Cars,    It determines its own location,  Senses what is around it,  Predicts next.  Safe Speed and trajectory is chosen based on  three inputs. news.softpedia.com -        

Toyota is making its own maps, Importance of GIS and Geospatial Technologies is revolutionizing automobile industry. How it is doing it: - Data from cameras and GPS installed in Toyota cars is used for making maps. Who already are Toyota Competitors: - Google, TomTom, Apple, Uber. Importance of Project: - Toyota is preparing itself for self-driving cars in future. Here is video: - Video Image by  ErikaWittlieb  from  Pixabay  

Classifying Satellite Imagery made easy Terra Pattern Classifying satellite imagery for low level analysis need you to get in complicated image classification algorithm. Terra Pattern is a good solution for pattern matching and identification. Terra Pattern finds similar patterns of tile you have selected. Image by mohamed Hassan from Pixabay How it works: I have placed marker on green area, it matched all tiles with similar pattern and in right lower corner it displayed all results with similar match. Export: You can export results in GeoJSON Format. Good news for developer that it is open source.

What is a DBMS ( database management system)? A database management system (DBMS) serves as an interface between users and their database What is a Spatial Database? If you include location with data your database will be spatial data. https://pixabay.com/ Why location : Geography plays a key role in effective decision making, importance of location with your data can be explained by the fact that all big giants of IT industry like google are now focusing on Geospatial technology. Advantages of Spatial DBMS:- -           Spatial database enable you to perform spatial queries, store locational data. -           Organizations can leverage Return on Investment using SDBMS -           Effective Decision making -           Accurate research -       ...

Launching innovative applications Google rule day to day Information technology, Google Earth with vast applications and visualizing capabilities, is being used for many GIS related operations. What data set GPEE uses?  Landsat and other data sets are being used by Google Planetary Earth Engine Image by  Gerd Altmann  from  Pixabay   Google Earth Engine  How can I use it?  GPEE can be used for change detection; temporal analysis of Data set can be performed. Example: You want to see how your city has changed in last few decades, what is current and past status of forest covers in your area. How is water path changing in last few decades? Read More @ https://earthengine.google.com For programmers interesting codes @ https://developers.google.com/earth-engine

Ease of data manipulation remained a topic of interest and debate for academia and research. Web GIS, and spatial data interpolation will always be open topic for data exchange researches, innovation and technologies. Image by James Osborne from Pixabay   FME can extract transform and load data (ETL) operations along with conversion into other formats, ease of operation extends to such a space that automated conversion for large data sets is also an option. It has ability to handle Lidar data set. One can convert, transform, merge, validate, Re-project, inspect, style and filter spatial data sets. More aboutFME ...