Date archive for May, 2000
| May 31, 2000A Geocoding PrimerFeatures, Learning GIS, Spatial AnalysisGeocoding is a method of deriving spatial coordinates for tabular data stored in an addressable form. A manual equivalent is using pushpins to highlight locations on a map. GIS applications utilize an algorithmic matching method to automate such an effect. The most common type of geocoding results from the spatial location of street addresses using ... read more May 17, 2000Thirty Tips and Tricks for Programming in AvenueProgrammingSome tips and tricks for customizing ArcView 3x using Avenue User Interface Modifications You cannot have a tool selected and invisible at startup as of ArcView version 3.1. A common symptom of menu bars without menu items is that the portion of the screen occupied by the menu bar is not refreshed properly. To force ArcView to refresh ... read more May 14, 2000Number of Fortune 1000 Companies by StateGIS NewsNumber of Fortune 1000 companies categorized by state for the year 2000. State Number North Dakota 0 Wyoming 0 Vermont 0 West Virginia 0 Alaska 0 Montana 1 New Mexico 1 Mississippi 1 Maine 2 South Dakota 2 New Hampshire 2 Hawaii 2 Idaho 4 Delaware 4 Louisiana 4 Iowa 5 Kansas 5 Nebraska 6 Rhode Island 6 Utah 6 Oklahoma 6 South Carolina 6 Oregon 7 Nevada 7 District of Columbia 7 Kentucky 9 Arkansas 10 Alabama 12 Arizona 13 Indiana 14 ... read more Andorra – GIS Data and ResourcesDataData Algeria – GIS Data and ResourcesDataAbout Algeria Albania – GIS Data and ResourcesDataData Afghanistan – GIS Resources and DataDataArticles and Case Studies Land Cover Mapping Brief article by John S. Latham of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN (FAO) on the land cover mapping effort of Afghanistan. Data About Afghanistan Maps and geographical information from the Geography Site at About.GIS Data Depot – Afghanistan Free data for Afghanistan for downloading from the GIS Data Depot. ... read more May 2, 2000U.S. discontinues selective availability of GPS to publicFeatures, GPSPETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. (AFPN) — The White House announced May 1 the United States will discontinue “selective availability” of the global positioning system signals available to the public. SA is the intentional degradation of signals transmitted by Navstar GPS satellites, providing civilian users with accuracy less than what’s used by the military. With ... read more May 1, 2000 GIS Data Explored – Vector and Raster DataData, Features, Learning GISA geodatabase is a database that is in some way referenced to locations on the earth. Coupled with this data is usually data known as attribute data. Attribute data generally defined as additional information, which can then be tied to spatial data. GIS data can be separated into two categories: spatially referenced data which is represented ... read more |
