To improve the quality of our map, it is important to know that it is possible to customise the symbology, this means, to get the features adapted to what we want to represent on the map. […]

One of the most common analysis used in every GIS is to represent  service areas around any location, using, at first, a Buffer Analysis. In this example, we have used a ArcGIS Desktop application: ArcMap. […]

The ArcGIS Course applied to Geology and Mining is particularly suitable for professionals in these areas who want to gain an advanced knowledge of this powerful software, and specifically of those tools that are very useful to the fields of geology and mining. Let’s review in this post some of the most interesting contents regarding [...]

The United States Geological Survey, USGS, is an organization of the United States government that provides reliable information regarding the status, threats and condition of the Earth, being the largest mapping agency in the country. It shares information from all around the world. […]

As the majority of us know, an earthquake is a violent shaking of the earth due to the release of energy stored for a long time. […]

When working with projects in ArcGIS format, it may happen that we want to work with them, or that they need to be available, in AutoCAD format. […]

Using the tool “Geotagged photos to points”, it is possible to observe the geographic location of images through the creation of a point layer from geotagged photos. This tool reads information related to the photos coordinates (JPEG or TIFF) saved in the metadata file “Exif”. […]

This geodatabase feature allow us analyse vector networks and find out if there are errors on them to be able to fix them afterwards. With this we can, for example, carry out a more exact analysis or create routes without finding an error. What this feature does is find errors in the layer (or group of layers) [...]

Network Analyst is a geospatial tool based in networks used to support decisions. The networks are formed by edges (lines) and nodes (points). […]

Once a project is done, it is important to create a beautiful presentation. Even though the goals have been met, it is a requirement to know how to present the results and do so in a visual way. Next, we are going to show you a trick to add relief to the image. [...]