Mapping & GIS 201 for Landmen
We now offer our more advanced GIS class for Landmen: Mapping & GIS 201 for Landmen
View ArticleFree Mapping Software
We, at the Institute, are big believers in free mapping software. Open Source has brought wonderful software tools to the common man who lives on a tight budget. There is no need to spend hundreds of...
View ArticleSelf Paced GIS Training Video Course
This GIS Training course, called GIS 101, is now available online. This course is self paced and consists of several dozen short videos that cover everything from the basics of how we measure the earth...
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Hurricane Sandy Flooded Areas
A quick map for those who want to see the extent of flooding damage. Not all is as you’d expect. Areas of flooding are drawn to the boundaries of the zip codes the flooding occurred in.
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Possible range of North Korea missile launch
Earlier today the UN imposed tougher sanctions on North Korea. North Korea responded by threating with nuclear warheads. (North Korea vows to end non aggression pacts after U.N.vote/Friday March 8,...
View ArticleOpen Source Vs Commerical
At The Institute for Mapping Technology we use teach Quantum GIS. Quantum or QGIS is an open source program. This means the software is free to download and use. On the other hand the most popular...
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Print Composer in Quantum GIS
Print Composer is the tool used by Quantum to ready maps for presentation. In it you can add elements such as a title, legend, scale bar and north arrow. When creating a map for presentation consider...
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Projection/ Coordinate Systems in Quantum GIS
Projection is very important when creating maps. They can create distorted maps or any analysis of the information can be incorrect. To set the projection for an entire project The box below...
View ArticleFree Courses
Coursera is a website that has 100′s of courses from Intro to Algebra to History of Rock. The website is a collaboration between several universities around the world such as Penn State and University...
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Working with DEM Models Qgis Quantum GIS
Below you will find a few tips on working with DEM models in Qgis. Image taken from http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ of Big Island Hawaii You download your GeoTiff file and it looks like this: To...
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Solving Issues Downloading Qgis for Ubuntu 13.04
I downloaded Qgis for Ubuntu 13.04 and I encountered a few issues. First issue I had was that I was not able to download any plugin-ins. Second issue is that I was having is that I was not able to...
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QGIS Sextante Plug-in
In QGIS there are 100′s of plugins available. One of the best I have used is the SEXTANTE plugin. You can download this by going to Plugins>Fetch Python Plugins and search for SEXTANTE. Once...
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QGIS Just a few quick tips
Here a few quick tips I wanted to share in QGIS. Under Vector>Analysis Tools there is the basic statistics tool. What it does is fairly simple, but it often gets overlooked. This will give you data...
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GIS Training book done!
We’ve finished the learning GIS via QGIS book and it is in the process of publishing. We’ll let you see the pre-design cover and tell you that it will be available on AMAZON soon! The authors are Nik...
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