GIS coaching for territorial management.
The contributions of a GIS for the territorial management Internal contributions Information is a key factor for territorial management: the more available and adequate information exists; the more well suited management decisions can easily be taken.…
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To set the background for the Geographical Information Systems (GIS) at the heart of various local authorities , we must start by defining the term GIS. There are many different definitions of GIS. Michel Didier…
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GIS teams have been build up over time with more or less imposed tools, with work objectives not always allowing time enough for a strategic consideration. The imperatives and deadlines accumulate and the feeling of no…
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The story of Quantum GIS (QGIS) begins in 2002 under the leadership of Gary Sherman who wanted to have a GIS viewer on Linux .At its origin, it was intended to be a GRASS data visualization…
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Historical reminder gvSIG was born in 2004 at the Spanish Council for Infrastructure and Transport, as part of an OpenSource ( gvPontis ) migration tool. Its main objective was to make available a complete GIS to…
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Its history… MapWindows has different origins from other OpenSource GIS projects . Firstly, the project dates back to 1998, at the WaterResearch Laboratory of Utah (USA). Originally the goal of the project team was not to…
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History At its origins (1982 -1995), the core of GRASS was developed in the United States, at the research laboratory of the Army Corps of Engineers . Its development was later carried on by an international…
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One of the most practical elements with QGis is the possibility to work with, as a base map, the images from Google Earth, Bing, etc. Just install the plug-in and you’re done. For ArcGis users this…
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A geographical information “system” is composed of a combination of software, data, operators and users, processing and treatments which underlie a certain organization. We will discuss here the technical fundamentals of the system: the management (capture,…
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As you must have already reckoned, we are particularly interested in the transition of the territorial data to 3D. The ArcGis Pro output with two side-by-side windows (2D window ArcMap type and 3D window ArcScene type)…
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