Wishbox for web site feedback Mike has pointed out a potentially useful tool for our web projects. Wishbox is from the s ... read more Posted by Crispin Flower 23 November 2011 Comments(0)
Some jottings on SQL Azure and GIS I have set up a SQL Azure 90 day trial (as of 18th November) to test whether ArcSquirrel can work ... read more Posted by Crispin Flower 19 November 2011 Categories: ArcGIS Azure GIS (general) GISquirrel MS Access OGR/GDAL Quantum GIS (QGIS) SQL Server Comments(1)
Useful Windows Live Writer plugins Windows Live Writer is a great blog authoring tool that we use with this knowledgebase (a mojoPortal blog + pages). Since we are often posting code snippets, here are a couple of useful plugins. They ... read more Posted by Crispin Flower 17 November 2011 Categories: mojoPortal Visual Studio Comments(0)
Solution Load Manager for Visual Studio 2010 If you have a complicated multi-project solution where Visual Studio 2010 is starting to take a while loading – try adding this extension which by default causes projects to only load on demand.... read more Posted by Crispin Flower 17 November 2011 Categories: Visual Studio Comments(1)
Notes on importing spatial data into SQL Server 2008 There are a variety of ways to do this, but often you will hit issues with data validity. If you have our ArcGIS Maplink product (or ArcSquirrel) then loading data in using this into a... read more Posted by Crispin Flower 17 November 2011 Categories: ArcGIS GIS (general) GISquirrel MapInfo Professional SQL Server Comments(1)
Where to find the Ordnance Survey registration files The registration files (world files and tab files) for all Ordnance Survey raster datasets can be downloaded from: http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/products/geo-referencing.html These are... read more Posted by Crispin Flower 15 November 2011 Categories: ArcGIS GIS (general) MapInfo Professional Comments(0)
Don't forget the PG tip When opening a PostGIS datasource using the OGR C# wrapper in .Net, the connection string must have "PG:" prefix, as follows: ... Imports OSGeo.OGR ... Dim drv As OSGeo.OGR.Driver... read more Posted by Crispin Flower 15 November 2011 Categories: OGR/GDAL PostgreSQL/PostGIS Comments(0)
Using ECWs without world files in MapInfo If you have ECW map images without world files, they may work fine in ArcGIS but MapInfo won't put them in the right place as it can't read the header information in the ECW. You could opening them... read more Posted by Crispin Flower 12 November 2011 Categories: GIS (general) MapInfo Professional Comments(0)
Getting MapServer to work on IIS7.5 Server 2008 Text below is reproduced from: http://mas-kono-tes.blogspot.com/2011/03/getting-mapserver-to-work-on-iis75.html and gives a reasonable overview of how to install mapserver - especially how to... read more Posted by 12 November 2011 Categories: CGI IIS MapServer Comments(0)
Mapserver 6 and regular expressions In earlier versions of mapserver you might have a regular expression that looked like: EXPRESSION ('[HAB_TYPE]' =~/^A1.1/) If you try this with mapserver 6 however (especially on large datasets)... read more Posted by 08 November 2011 Categories: MapServer OGR/GDAL Comments(0)