Category Archives: english

gvSIG Festival: First virtual gvSIG Conference is coming!

Posted on 02/05/2016 by Mario

From May 23rd to 27th there’s an event that you can’t miss: the first gvSIG Festival. In this case it doesn’t matter where you live or even what language you speak since you will be able to attend (virtually) more … Continue reading →

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gvSIG Festival: Keep Calm More Info Coming Soon

Posted on 28/04/2016 by Alvaro
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gvSIG 2.3: Working on new improvements

Posted on 20/04/2016 by Mario

In 2015 we established a rule for releasing two gvSIG versions per year, that we achieved at the gvSIG 2.1 and gvSIG 2.2 versions. In 2016 the dynamics would be to release another two versions, gvSIG 2.3 and gvSIG 2.4, … Continue reading →

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Assessing the quality of urban layouts (II)

Posted on 13/04/2016 by Manuel

As we announced in a previous post, we are describing the basis of the methodology developed by the gvSIG Association and New York University (NYU) within the project “Monitoring Global Urban Expansion”, for assessing the quality of urban layouts. Metrics … Continue reading →

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Assessing the quality of urban layouts (I)

Posted on 11/04/2016 by Manuel

Factors like a right proportion of public spaces and a good connectivity are crucial for the economic, social and cultural development of cities as they facilitates citizen mobility and interaction. This is well known among urban experts but, to which … Continue reading →

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Smart cities: technical decisions, political decisions

Posted on 09/04/2016 by mjlobato76

We want to close the posts related to Smart Cities and to the unbreakable relation between Smart Cities and open source software, with a question not many times taken into account and many times ignored. Talking about software, which part … Continue reading →

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Splitting strings in an attribute table on gvSIG 2.x

Posted on 07/04/2016 by Mario

When we work with an attribute table in gvSIG, we sometimes want to split the strings in one of the fields, in order to have a substring. For that, we would use the subString operator at the Field calculator, that … Continue reading →

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Smart cities: what about the reuse?

Posted on 29/03/2016 by mjlobato76

At this point in our live we still get indignant about seeing tenders and public grants and most of them related to Smart Cities in the last years where basically citizens money is spent in software licenses acquisition. Licenses with … Continue reading →

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Smart Cities: Can only the big cities be intelligent?

Posted on 22/03/2016 by Mario

Some days ago we talked about that it’s not possible to apply the Smart City concept, the intelligent city concept, to that cities where their public managers apply policies and projects that make their technological infrastructures, their information systems, are … Continue reading →

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Running R source code from gvSIG 2.3 through Renjin

Posted on 17/03/2016 by Mario

One of the new features included in gvSIG 2.3, that was commented at the 11th International gvSIG Conference (there’s also a question from an attendee at the end of the video), is the possibility to run R source code from … Continue reading →

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