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Locus Map Pro carries its support for MBTiles to the next level
I wrote before about the MBtiles format, a convenient format to store tiled maps in a single portable sqlite database. Probably the easiest way to create them is with Tilemill, as described here. The...
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Metadata support in GRASS GIS
GRASS GIS always has been lacking proper meta data support. But that has changed with the (relative) new wx.metadata add-on, which includes advanced tools for metadata management according to ISO...
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Access GRASS 7 data in QGIS
QGIS supports GRASS in two different ways. 1) For those working with GRASS databases, there is the GRASS toolbox, which basically offered an alternative GUI to GRASS. For those working with other data...
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Computing MESS in R and GRASS – a speed comparison
The Multivariate Environmental Similarity Surfaces (MESS) is an index that represents how similar a point is to a reference set of points, with respect to a set of predictor variables (Elith et al...
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Online data sources: the Atlas of African Agriculture Research & Development
Data source of the week There is a wealth of information on e.g., land use, climate and species available online. But you need to know where to look. My plan is to highlight one example every week...
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Online data sources: Harvest choice
One example of of spatial data on the web every week… this week Harvest choice Harvest Choice Description: Harvest Choice is a collaboration between various partners that aim to build decision support...
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GRASS GIS 6.4.3 RC4 released
Good news, check it out: http://grass.osgeo.org/news/25/15/GRASS-GIS-6-4-3RC4-released/Filed under: GIS software, GRASS GIS, Software release Tagged: GRASS GIS
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Stable GRASS GIS 6.4.3 released
GRASS GIS 6.4.3 released – Birthday release for 30 years of GRASS GIS on http://grass.osgeo.orgFiled under: GRASS GIS, Software release Tagged: GRASS GIS
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GRASS GIS 6.4.3 RC4 released
Good news, check it out: http://grass.osgeo.org/news/25/15/GRASS-GIS-6-4-3RC4-released/Filed under: GIS software, GRASS GIS, Software release Tagged: GRASS GIS
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Stable GRASS GIS 6.4.3 released
GRASS GIS 6.4.3 released – Birthday release for 30 years of GRASS GIS on http://grass.osgeo.orgFiled under: GRASS GIS, Software release Tagged: GRASS GIS
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Recode your raster file in GRASS GIS using a csv file
The two easiest ways to reclassify a raster layer in GRASS GIS are using the r.reclass or r.recode functions. Although both are easy enough to use, sometimes it would be nice if you could just provide...
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Access R from GRASS GIS on Windows
Since I have switch from Windows to Linux, many years ago, things have started to look a lot brighter for those wanting to use GRASS on Windows. I won’t switch back to Windows any time soon, but I...
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GRASS GIS 7.0 beta 4 released
The 4th beta release of GRASS GIS 7.0 is available for download. This is the last step before the planned release candidate (RC1), so a very good time to take it for a test run. The most important...
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GRASS GIS 6.4.3 RC4 released
Good news, check it out: http://grass.osgeo.org/news/25/15/GRASS-GIS-6-4-3RC4-released/Filed under: GIS software, GRASS GIS, Software release Tagged: GRASS GIS
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Stable GRASS GIS 6.4.3 released
GRASS GIS 6.4.3 released – Birthday release for 30 years of GRASS GIS on http://grass.osgeo.orgFiled under: GRASS GIS, Software release Tagged: GRASS GIS
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Update of r.mess to work in GRASS 7
A while back I wrote a GRASS GIS addon to calculate the Multivariate Environmental Similarity index (MES; see below for a short description). The addon was written as a shell script and R script and...
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GRASS GIS 7.0.0 Release Candidate 1
The release candidate of GRASS GIS 7.0 has been released, with too many improvements and new features to summarize here. Go to http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/7.0.0RC1-News and check out the...
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Update of r.forestfrag addon for GRASS GIS 7.0
Riitters et al. (2000) proposed a quick approach to measure the degree of forest fragmentation that could be relatively easily implemented and which only required a map with forest and non-forest....
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Online data sources: the global width database for large rivers
I came across this interesting data source, and though I might as well share it. Description: A global database of the the width of the large rivers (GWD-LR). The river width is derived from...
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GRASS GIS 7.0 RC2 ready for testing
The second release candidate of the upcoming stable GRASS GIS 7.0.0 version has been released. You can read the announcement here (including the download links) or the more detailed news about the...
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