On many occasion I have been handed a file containing geographic coordinates (csv, txt, etc.) to convert to point geometry and view in a GIS and when I plot them they appear anywhere else besides where I expect they should be on the earth. The problem starts with the way the x,y coordinates are perceived. We usually say …
A decade ago I purchased the first edition of Learning Geospatial Analysis with Python by Joel Lawhead. I was fresh from graduating from the MSc in Geocomputation at Maynooth University where our lecturer, Martin Charlton, gave us a term I will always remember, “buttonology”. Buttonology, he described, was the pushing of buttons in ArcGIS (or …
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I was digging through some material from my MSc in Geocomputation from Maynooth University and came across this exam question. The MSc was fantastic. We had access to the brains of Chris Brunsdon the late Martin Charlton, two of the three people (Stewart Fotheringham, another stalwart in geospatial statistics was the third) that gave us …
This is a revamp of an old blog post from over 8 years ago that received great feedback at the time so I am interested to see how it holds up today with a few edits. I’ve now hit 16 years in my GIS career. Career advice is everywhere these days from generic all-round advice …
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