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A Geographic Information System (GIS) captures, stores, analyzes, manages, and presents data that are linked to location(s). The GIS Stack Exchange should be considered for questions with this tag.

Guidelines for GIS application development

I'm supposed to create a GIS application for my MSc, and I was wondering what are the best free and (…

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extracting information from a JSON file using XSLT version 1.0

I'm a noobie to stackoverflow and xslt so I hope I don't sound unintelligent! So I am working with SDI …

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Geographical heat map of a custom property in R with ggmap

The goal is to build something like http://rentheatmap.com/sanfrancisco.html I got map with ggmap and able to …

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Difference between multipolygon and polygon in PostGIS

What is the difference between point and multipoint ? linestring and multilinestring ? polygon and multipolygon ? In PostGIS What is the secret …

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Loading JSON into a GeoDataFrame

I'm having difficulty loading the following JSON containing GIS data (https://data.cityofnewyork.us/resource/5rqd-h5ci.json) into a …

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Finding adjacent polygons in R (neighbors)

I'm starting with a SpatialPolygonsDataFrame which has the data to create a map of the districts of Ghana (available at …

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Convert NetCDF (.nc) to GEOTIFF

I have .nc file sizing around 300MB with a couple of datasets (TEMP, DEWPOINT) forecast data. I need to convert (…

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Merging Two SpatialPolygonsDataFrame Objects

Using the shapefile available here I am trying two merge the polygons of Sudan and South Sudan, so that I …

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Configuring maxExtent and restrictExtent coordinates in OpenLayers

I'm very new to OpenLayers and working with GeoData; as such, I think I have a pretty noob question about …

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Facet with free scales but keep aspect ratio fixed

I am using ggplot to draw faceted maps and have been unable to work out how to allow "free" scales …

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