I guess we can call this part two of the global conôÙnecôÙtivôÙity by flight experôÙiôÙment, which I have been workôÙing on the past couôÙple of days. Once again, the data comes from openflights.org/data.html and isô availôÙableô for free to the pubôÙlic. It is a very detailed set of data that requires just a litôÙtle bit of masôÙsagôÙing to be usable in a deskôÙtop work enviôÙronôÙment. In this blog post I would like to take you through some quick helpôÙful tips that should get you from downôÙloadôÙing the data and cleanôÙing it up to mapôÙping it in ArcMap. In all honôÙesty, I would have loved ConôÙtinue reading ô£
Aug 232011
An earthôÙquake meaôÙsurôÙing in at 5.9 magôÙniôÙtude, hit VirôÙginia (epicentre)ô atô approxôÙiôÙmatelyô 17:51:03 GMT. I am writôÙing this post from my office at RyerôÙson UniôÙverôÙsity, Toronto, Ontario, where we also felt the ground move beneath us.ãÎ Okay, to be frank, I didnãt feel anyôÙthing. But my classôÙmates and colôÙleagues have reported that they felt the earthquake.ô Now, the reaôÙson why I am postôÙing about this, is not exactly because I think the earthôÙquake was that sigôÙnifôÙiôÙcant and worth menôÙtionôÙing. I would like to share with youô a litôÙtle map that I creôÙated a few ConôÙtinue reading ô£
Aug 222011
Lets talk about QGIS for a litôÙtle bit before we go ahead and install it on our sysôÙtems. QGIS is an open source GIS packôÙage that is under the GNU pubôÙlic license. It offers enough funcôÙtionôÙalôÙity for someôÙone with a ArcInfo StuôÙdent License (myself) to want to explore. The usage of QGIS in day to day tasks has me spendôÙing less time ConôÙtinue reading ô£