Virtual layers with QGIS – wait a second, this is starting to look like Manifold…
If you are like me, you love writing spatial SQL. But what can you do if you have a geodatabase, some shapefiles, or any other data...
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artlembo
Mar 14, 20193 min
Easy bivariate map with Postgres
A friend recently asked me about the cool looking bivariate maps produced with ArcOnline, lamenting that the capability seemed lacking...
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artlembo
Oct 16, 20185 min
Big Data Results
I wanted to revisit the taxi data example that I previously blogged about. I had a 6GB file of 16 million taxi pickup locations and 260...
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artlembo
Jul 7, 20182 min
Finding “Dangles” with PostGIS
Do you have a set of lines that you need to determine if there are any “dangle” nodes? A dangle is a line segment that overhangs another...
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artlembo
Jun 22, 20181 min
Multi-Ring (non-overlapping) Buffers with PostGIS
I was interested in creating mult-ring buffers but with a twist: I didn’t want the buffers to overlap one another. In other words, if I...
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artlembo
Jun 19, 20181 min
GIS Analysis of Overlapping Layers
Sure you can solve it with a few for loops, inserting the results into a new table, but that really is a hassle. Also, I have to do it...
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artlembo
Nov 21, 20171 min
Big Data GeoAnalytics – Turning Points to Lines
In my last video, I gave a short of mile-high view of how SQL can be used for big data geoanalytics. I want to dive a little deeper, and...
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artlembo
Nov 20, 20171 min
Big data geo-analytics with SQL
I’m getting ready to create a course in big data analytics with GIS. I have lots of ideas as to what to do, but one thing I know is that...
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artlembo
Mar 26, 20172 min
Maryland State GIS Conference (TuGIS)
The TuGIS training workshop on March 20, 2017 is completed – you can see the workshop evaluations below: The workshop evaluations are in...
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artlembo
Dec 17, 20164 min
Undergraduate Geospatial Python Projects
GIS Programming students presented their programming projects to ESRI. First, I cannot say enough to thank ESRI for taking time out of...
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artlembo
Oct 25, 20162 min
A Typical Class Project at Salisbury University: Evaluating Geocoding Accuracies
I’ve always been proud of our Salisbury University GIS students, and love to push them as far as their little minds can handle it. You...
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artlembo
May 18, 20163 min
Open Source GIS Course at UMD – the Syllabus
UMD provided me with enrollment numbers, and we are getting a pretty full class. However, a few people on the “outside” have asked for a...
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artlembo
Apr 26, 20163 min
k-Nearest Neighbor with PostGRES
Well, even though you didn’t ask for it, I decided to create a k-nearest neighbor analysis in PostGRES/PostGIS. This has lots of...
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artlembo
Apr 26, 20162 min
k-nearest neighbor with SQL in Radian Studio
I wanted to give you another look at some features that Radian Studio will offer. I’ve shown how we can use SQL to replicate the ARC/INFO...
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artlembo
Apr 20, 20164 min
Trade Area Analysis in Postgres / PostGIS
How I used SQL to generate an accumulated sum of spatial data My friend Tomas does work with business analytics, and wanted to find a way...
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artlembo
Apr 19, 20162 min
SQL and ogr to create 4D lines
A friend recently asked me to help him generate polyline shapefiles with Z and M values that he could deliver to a customer. The problem...
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artlembo
Jul 13, 20151 min
Doing a GROUP BY in ArcGIS
As most of you know, I am a big fan of spatial SQL. It is my go-to tool whenever working with GIS. But, I have seen too many people...
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artlembo
Jun 5, 20152 min
Radian Engine and Functions
In previous posts, I showed how to create ARC/INFO functions in SQL using Manifold 8. While I love SQL, it is somewhat frustrating to...
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artlembo
Jun 8, 20142 min
Spatial is Not Special – Quadrat Analysis
In our book we illustrated the use of quadrat analysis for determining whether points were random, clustered, or distributed. Figure...
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artlembo
May 30, 20142 min
Spatial is Not Special – Nearest Neighbor Index
It is nice to get back to the book, and start talking about Statistical Problem Solving in Geography again. Today we are going to look...
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