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Friday, December 13, 2013

Photosynth Tech Preview

 

http://photosynth.net/preview/

Cathedral demolition by abandonedamerica.us on Photosynth

 

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http://www.acute3d.com/videos/

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Python and GIS + BING live data feed for travel

 

Python and GIS

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Shapely

http://scitools.org.uk/cartopy/

http://toblerity.org/rtree/

http://statsmodels.sourceforge.net/

http://www.qgis.org/en/docs/index.html#documentation-for-qgis-2-0
    > http://docs.qgis.org/2.0/pdf/QGIS-testing-PyQGISDeveloperCookbook-en.pdf

https://github.com/kjordahl/geopandas

http://pandas.pydata.org/

 

BING Travel Data

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff701713.aspx

Web Links Dec 2013


Scanning maps and vectorizing them   http://www.gislounge.com/automating-extracting-gis-data-scanned-maps/
Spatial inequality – Census Data   http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/area_classification/
Interesting infographics   http://flowingdata.com/
Visualisation library for Python  http://bokeh.pydata.org/
Census English indices of deprivation   https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/english-indices-of-deprivation-2010
Quadrocopters – DJI Phantom 2 Vision  http://www.dji.com/feature/phantom-2-vision-features/
Find a PhD -  http://www.findaphd.com/
Interface (Scottish commercial using Uni for R&D) - http://www.interface-online.org.uk/
Autotrace bitmap to vector - http://autotrace.sourceforge.net/

GIS tools
MapTiler - http://www.maptiler.org/
Mapnik -  http://mapnik.org/
TileCache - http://tilecache.org/
Leaflet  - simple CSV - http://blog.perrygeo.net/2013/09/30/leaflet-simple-csv/
Visualising OpenStreetMap Community contributions: https://www.mapbox.com/blog/osm-community-visualized/
Geoforge -geosciences software solutions includes animal tracking tools -  http://www.geoforge.org/softwares.php