GIS applied to Municipality Management: Module 11 ‘Reprojecting vector layers’

Posted on 12/02/2018 by Mario

The video of the eleventh module is now available, in which we will show how to reproject vector layers.

Sometimes municipalities need external geographic information to work, for example cartography published by another administration, such as regional or national. That cartography can be in a different system than technicians usually work on in the municipality. If we don’t take the reference systems into account, both cartographies would not be overlapped correctly.

The municipality technicians can also use old cartography, which is in an obsolete reference system, and they need to have it in an updated reference system. For this, it will be necessary to reproject that cartography.

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

Posted on 08/02/2018 by Mario

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 only file for the whole municipality that contains all type of information, such as power lines, parcels, drinking water system, sewage system…, each one in a different layer.

It sometimes makes it difficult to manage, even we have to divide the municipality into sheets to manage that information, where we lose information of our municipality as a group. In that case, to make queries, calculations…, we would have to open the different files.

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Adding new colour tables in gvSIG Desktop, more options to represent our data

Posted on 07/02/2018 by Mario

The colour tables are used in gvSIG Desktop to represent both raster data (for example, a Digital Elevation Model) and vector data (they can be applied in legends such as unique values or heat maps). By default gvSIG Desktop has a small catalog of colour tables. But most of the users don’t know that it’s very easy to add new colour tables. Do you want to see how easy it is? Continue reading →

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Webinar on “gvSIG Suite: open source software for geographic information management in agriculture – Technology and case studies” (February 15)

Posted on 07/02/2018 by Mario

GODAN and gvSIG Association invite you to join the webinar about “gvSIG Suite: open source software for geographic information management in agriculture – Technology and case studies“, in February 15th at 2PM GMT.

This webinar will deal with the gvSIG Suite, the whole catalog of open source software solutions offered by the gvSIG Association, and case studies about forestry and agriculture of the different products.

With free registration, this event is appropriate for all users interested in knowing how to work with an open source Geographic Information System in agriculture and forestry sectors.

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Añadir nuevas tablas de color a gvSIG Desktop, ampliando las opciones para representar nuestros datos

Posted on 07/02/2018 by Alvaro

Las tablas de color se utilizan en gvSIG Desktop tanto para representar datos ráster (por ejemplo, un Modelo Digital del Terreno) como para representar datos vectoriales (se pueden aplicar en leyendas como la de valores únicos o en la de mapas de calor). Por defecto gvSIG Desktop tiene un pequeño catálogo de tablas de color. Lo que la mayor parte de usuarios no sabe es que es muy sencillo añadir tablas de color nuevas. ¿Queréis ver lo fácil que es? Continue reading →

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Sentilo and gvSIG: Agreement to collaborate

Posted on 06/02/2018 by Alvaro

We are pleased to announce that Sentilo and gvSIG communities have reached an agreement to collaborate closely in order to make it easier for users, partners and developers of both communities to deploy an integrated sensor platform and a Geographic Information System, both based on open source. Continue reading →

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Cambiando el ‘look and feel’ de gvSIG Desktop en un par de pasos

Posted on 05/02/2018 by Alvaro

En alguna ocasión me han preguntado por cómo poder cambiar la apariencia que viene ‘de serie’ de gvSIG Desktop. La verdad es que siempre ha habido algunas opciones, aunque desconocidas para la mayoría de los usuarios. Con la versión 2.4 de gvSIG Desktop se amplían al poder crear y utilizar nuevos juegos de iconos.

Os voy a poner un pequeño ejemplo para en un par de pasos cambiar ‘el estilo’ por defecto de gvSIG Desktop 2.4. Continue reading →

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GIS applied to Municipality Management: Module 9 ‘Hyperlink’

Posted on 05/02/2018 by Mario

The video of the ninth module is now available, in which we will show how to work with hyperlinks in gvSIG.

This tool allows us to associate images, text files, pdf files, folders, web pages … to the geometries of our vector layer. For that we must have one or more fields in the attribute table of that shapefile in which we will have the file or folder paths or the web page URL.

When we create the field for the paths it’s important to indicate a large size (for example 200 characters), since if we link to a very long path and the field length is smaller, that path will be cut and you will not find the linked element.

This functionality will be very useful to show reviews, pictures, reports … of our geographical entities.

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gvSIG 2.4 RC4 ya está disponible para descargar

Posted on 02/02/2018 by Mario

gvSIG 2.4 RC4, la cuarta distribución candidata a versión (Release Candidate) de gvSIG 2.4, ya está disponible para descargar desde la web de gvSIG.

Con la publicación de este nuevo build os animamos a que lo probéis y a que nos reportéis los posibles errores y sugerencias que encontréis a través de la lista de usuarios.

Las principales novedades de esta versión las podéis encontrar en los distintos post publicados en el blog de gvSIG, destacando, entre otras, la descarga de datos de OpenStreetMap o el acceso a las herramientas de administración de H2 desde gvSIG Desktop.

Gracias por vuestra colaboración.

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gvSIG 2.4 RC4 is available to download now

Posted on 02/02/2018 by Mario

gvSIG 2.4 RC4, the fourth gvSIG 2.4 Release Candidate is now available to download from the gvSIG website.

With the release of this new build we encourage you to test it and send us any errors and suggestions in the users mailing list.

The main new features of this version have been published at the gvSIG blog during the last weeks. Some of them are the possibility to download data from Open Street Map or the access to H2 from gvSIG Desktop.

Thanks for your collaboration.

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