Category Archives: gvSIG technologies

gvSIG projects: REMER, coverage analysis for emergency situations

In the General Directorate of Civil Protection and Emergencies (DGPCE) of Spain, gvSIG Online is used as a platform to manage geographic information, with the aim of having a single solution for all the geomatics needs at the entity. One … Continue reading

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Learn GIS with free online courses and open source

Geography is increasingly being recognised as a critically important element of data. Reality is expressed on the territory. Tools that allow us to manage the territory will allow us to manage the reality. “A geographic information system (GIS) is a … Continue reading

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Cours gratuit sur les systèmes d’information géographiques appliqués à la gestión des municipalités: premiers modules disponibles

Nous lançons les premiers modules d’un ambitieux cours gratuit permettant d’acquérir les compétences nécessaires pour appliquer les systèmes d’information géographiques à la gestión des municipalités. Ce cours a déjà été édité en anglais et en espagnol, et maintenant nous voulons … Continue reading

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Creating new colour ramps in gvSIG Online

As you knew a raster image could be represented using a ‘colour table’. These colour tables are generated from the colour ramps. In gvSIG Online we have a series of colour ramps but for customized cases that may be interesting … Continue reading

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GIS applied to municipality management: Certification and links to the complete course

The certification of the course about Geographic Information Systems applied to municipality management is now available (this course is also available in Spanish and in French). This certification period is opened after the publishing of the last modules of the course, … Continue reading

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GIS applied to Municipality Management: Module 16.2 ‘gvSIG Online (Basic editing, hyperlink…)’

The second video of the sixteenth module is now available, where we will continue showing how to work with gvSIG Online. As we talked about in the previous video, gvSIG Online is an integral solution on free software for the … Continue reading

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GIS applied to Municipality Management: Module 10 ‘How to convert cartography from CAD to GIS’

The video of the tenth module is now available, in which we will show how to load and manage cartography in CAD format on gvSIG. Many municipalities have their geographic information in CAD format, and in many cases there’s an … Continue reading

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GIS applied to Municipality Management: Module 5.3 ‘Web services (Non-standard services)’

The third video of the fifth module is now available, in which we will talk about how to work with web services that don’t follow the OGC standards in gvSIG Desktop. These web services can be used to complement our … Continue reading

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GIS applied to Municipality Management: Module 5.1 ‘Web services (Introduction to SDI)’

The fifth module of this course deals with access to web services from gvSIG. At this first part we will introduce you to a fundamental concept when we talk about the efficient management of geographic information: Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI). SDI … Continue reading

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SIG aplicado a Gestión Municipal: Certificación y enlaces al curso completo

Ya está disponible la certificación del curso de Sistemas de Información Geográfica aplicado a gestión municipal (este curso también está disponible en inglés). Esta certificación se abre tras la publicación de los últimos módulos del curso, pero seguirá abierta de … Continue reading

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