Category Archives: english

Towards gvSIG 2.4: SQL Server

As we told in a previous post about SpatiaLite, in the next gvSIG Desktop version we will have a great number of improvements related to databases. We can find SQL Server support among them. SQL Server is a relational database … Continue reading

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Towards gvSIG 2.4: SpatiaLite

At the next version of gvSIG Desktop we will find a series of improvements related to databases. One of them is the SpatiaLite support.

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Towards gvSIG 2.4: Icon theme configuration

This utility, called “Icon theme configurator”, will allow the user to create its own icon sets, in order to customize the appearance of his own gvSIG Desktop, (for more information, check out the previous post about the new set of … Continue reading

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Towards gvSIG 2.4: Changing gvSIG interface. A new set of icons

gvSIG has used the same set of icons for a good number of years. Therefore, we have made the decision to give the user the opportunity to change themes or icons set easily. To do that, we have created a … Continue reading

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Learn GIS for free. Extra Module : GPS and Mobile GIS

Although “Learn GIS for free” course ended with the tenth module, today we offer you an extra module very interesting for those who are interested in using Mobile GIS to capture field data.

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“Learning GIS with Game of Thrones” free book

Have you decided to learn to work with a Geographic Information System and you don’t know how to start? Now that the premiere of the new season of Game of Thrones series will be in a few days, we recommend … Continue reading

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Learning GIS with Game of Thrones (XV and last): Add-ons installing

We are going to dedicate this last post to the “Add-ons manager”, a tool that every gvSIG Desktop user should know. The add-ons manager is a tool that allows to customize gvSIG, installing new extensions, functional ones as well as … Continue reading

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Learning GIS with Game of Thrones (XIV): Layouts

At this second-to-last post of the course to learn the base of the Geographic Information Systems through practical exercises with Game of Thrones data we are going to work with the “Map” document. A Layout document is a set of design … Continue reading

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Learn GIS for free. Module 9: Raster reclassification and raster calculator

We continue with the ninth module of the free GIS course, where we continue to show you how to work with gvSIG Desktop, in this case working with raster reclassification and rasterization tools, and learning what can we do with … Continue reading

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Towards gvSIG 2.4: Functionalities improved in gvpy

As you may know, gvpy is a  gvsig library that help us with the execution of geoprocesses. Thus, geoprocesses added in our gvSIG Toolbox can be executed from a script with a single line of code. For the new gvSIG … Continue reading

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