Saving and exporting ArcGIS data
While working with ArcGIS, it is essential to save correctly the files that we have worked with. If not done, we could suffer effort and time loss! […]
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03, 2015
Creating a fishnet grid using ArcGIS 10
With ArcGIS you have the possibility of creating a fishnet of rectangular cells and the output can be polyline or polygon features. […]
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03, 2015
Sightsmap. The most photographed places in the world.
Sightsmap is a GIS that quantifies the most photographed places in the world through heat maps. This is, it generates high resolution heat maps that illustrate the number of pictures regarding sites worldwide. […]
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03, 2015
Importing ArcView 3 project to ArcGIS
Some of you have been wondering how to visualize and use information included in projects created with ArcView. If you have ArcMap on your computer, you can import this information and open it in a project with *.mxd extension. […]
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03, 2015
GIS informs you about overfishing and fishing activity in the ocean
Once again, Geographic information demonstrates its large applications for great initiatives as the one seen in the Global Fishing Watch: a tool to observe fishing fleet activity around the world. […]
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03, 2015
Grizzly bear population density in the Yellowstone National Park (U.S)
The Grizzly bear (Ursus arctos ssp.) is a subspecies of the brown bear, mainly located in Canada and the United States. Being a main priority in conservation, let´s read more to learn how arcGIS can help us measure protection efforts applied to wildflife species. […]
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03, 2015
Become an Environmental ArcGIS specialist
Geographic Information Systems have turned out to be a potential tool for the support in decision making inside environmental projects. The course starts from the very beginning; helping consolidate basic knowledge to work with geolocation information, such as a correct definition of the coordinates system and the editing and generation of new information. […]
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02, 2015
Download free layers in vector format (shape *.shp) from all the world countries!
The European Statistics Office,EUROSTAT, offers totally free digital cartography of the world in general – and Europe in particular – in vector format (layers in shapefile format)! […]
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02, 2015
How to create a slope Map from a Digital Terrain Model in ArcGIS
Let’s learn with this post how to create a slope map from a Digital Terrain model (DTM) using ArcGIS 10. […]
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02, 2015
How to delineate a TIN dataset using ArcGIS
When cropping a Triangle Irregulated Network (TIN) dataset it is important that it preserves the elevation values from its edges. If not, these zones will interpolate to elevation value 0. […]