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  • On the cloud front, Peterson recalled a team of DBAs using EC2 to run a huge PostgreSQL spatial analysis with political shapefiles.

    How Technology Won the Presidency, Pt. II 2009

  • In addition to bringing raster-based data into NetLogo models (such as using USGS elevation data in this Grand Canyon model that Eric previously contributed to) the extension allows for import of vector data in the form of shapefiles.

    hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » GIS Extension for NetLogo Released 2008

  • Having once worked extensively with ESRI GIS, we can't help but indulgently picture 2,500-foot-wide, brightly colored vector shapefiles floating and clustering above schools, playgrounds and each and every family residences throughout the city, a map on a 1:1 scale, and also imagining these sex offenders constantly getting bumped out of these forbidden zones and into slim, uncolored marginal spaces.

    Archive 2009-09-01 2009

  • Plug and Play Maps is a free map creation tool that can create a Google Map from spreadsheets or similar tabulated data, from KML files, from GIS shapefiles or from data in a web database.

    Plug & Play Google Maps 2009

  • Having once worked extensively with ESRI GIS, we can't help but indulgently picture 2,500-foot-wide, brightly colored vector shapefiles floating and clustering above schools, playgrounds and each and every family residences throughout the city, a map on a 1:1 scale, and also imagining these sex offenders constantly getting bumped out of these forbidden zones and into slim, uncolored marginal spaces.

    Under Spaces 3 2009

  • The import of shapefiles is not good, they are not imported sometimes at the right scale.

    MacUpdate - Mac OS X 2010

  • GIS data from shapefiles or make a map from the many built-in templates.

    MacUpdate - Mac OS X 2010

  • Shape files don't have any way to model topology, and SDE is really just shapefiles stored in a rdbms.

    All Discussion Groups: Message List - root 2010

  • We currently have all this information spread across shapefiles and other files on disk.

    Planet Geospatial spanelo 2010

  • For example you export several layers from a project in shapefiles, once imported back to

    MacUpdate - Mac OS X 2010

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