Category Archives: english

Geopaparazzi 5.2.0 is out! Compatibility with gvSIG Online

Posted on 02/02/2017 by Alvaro

The new versión of Geopaparazzi is out and probably the most important feature is the compatibility with gvSIG online. Great news for gvSIG Suite. It is now possible to import and export geopaparazzi projects and spatialite databases from and to … Continue reading →

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Learning GIS with Game of Thrones (III): Navigation tools

Posted on 31/01/2017 by Mario

When we speak about navigation tools we are referring to all of those that allow us to go over the cartography, and here we can find from the typical zooms to zoom in and zoom out (that means, to change … Continue reading →

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Learning GIS with Game of Thrones (II): Attribute table

Posted on 27/01/2017 by Mario

We follow with this mini-course about the introduction to Geographic Information Systems with Game of Thrones.Today we are going to see how to open the attribute table of a layer. Firstly we are going to open our project, that we … Continue reading →

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Talking about SDI for IUCN with gvSIG Online

Posted on 26/01/2017 by Alvaro

Here you have a video about SDI project for IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) with gvSIG Online. Spatial Data Infrastructure with Open Source.

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Learning GIS with Game of Thrones (I): Adding data to a project

Posted on 26/01/2017 by Mario

This series of posts will try to show how to learn to use a GIS without previous knowledge and through several practical exercises. To make learning entertaining we are going to use a series of layers related to Game of … Continue reading →

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Spatial tools for evaluating woody debris flooding hazard in gvSIG

Posted on 16/01/2017 by Mario

There are a lot of applications of gvSIG in the field of natural hazards: flooding, fires… Recently a new one has been published about the evaluation of the amount of woods that can be transported by the flow during flooding … Continue reading →

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Street View plugin update for gvSIG 2.3.1

Posted on 11/01/2017 by Mario

Some weeks ago Google updated the Street View API, and it caused that Street View wasn’t visualized correctly in gvSIG. To solve this problem, the plugin has been updated for the 2.3.1 gvSIG version. To update it in our installation, … Continue reading →

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Test and educational games in gvSIG

Posted on 14/12/2016 by Óscar Martínez

There is some global concern about the future of Geomatics, not from the point of view of the discipline itself (given that the projections of the geospatial sector are increasingly auspicious), but from the point of view of a possible … Continue reading →

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gvSIG Batoví, article about GIS applied to educational environments based on gvSIG Desktop

Posted on 05/12/2016 by Alvaro

The online publication specializing in Geographical Information Technologies Directions Magazine has published an article highlighting gvSIG Batoví as an example of cooperative planning and creative partnership. Read more: http://www.directionsmag.com/entry/it-takes-a-village-intersections-between-geospatial-professionals-gove/482096

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Course about geographic scripting with gvSIG Desktop (documentation released)

Posted on 05/12/2016 by Alvaro

Last week Andrea Antonello (HydroloGIS) shared a very interesting documentation related to a course about geographic scripting (python) with gvSIG Desktop. The course was done as part of a Master of the University of Potsdam. The documentation includes: The scripting … Continue reading →

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