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by O Burdekin

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In this video we're diving into how you can clip all layers in a GeoPackage by the extent of the main map window. We've previously walked you through how to ...

by O Burdekin

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Get ready for a revolution in AGS4 data handling in QGIS! Our new plugin is set to transform your geotechnical workflows and contaminated land management. We're also launching an exciting ...

by O Burdekin

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ChatGPT in QGIS: How to Use the Latest QChatGPT Plugin (v0.3) by Marios Kyriakou for Geocoding, Python Scripting, and More!

by O Burdekin

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SQL (structured query language) is like a data-superpower. Many databases can be queried using SQL and you can use it to create, update, delete, slice and dice your data.

by O Burdekin

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esri app test

by O Burdekin

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Overview, inset, context, locator! Many names for these maps and many minutes in this video tutorial. Here we look at more than just creating inset maps - creating shoreline effects, ...

by O Burdekin

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In this video tutorial we look at using SAR data, Google Earth Engine and QGIS to identify what might be oil spills in Nigeria.

by O Burdekin

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In this guest post written by Chris Hutchinson we take a look at TravelTime, an alternative to Network Analyst extension in ArcGIS Pro.

by Chris Hutchinson

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Here's how to bring Excel tables into QGIS 3. The first part looked at CSVs.

by O Burdekin

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Thanks to North Road, crowdfunding and some reverse engineering it is now possible to convert esri's ArcGIS .lyr symbology to QGIS .qml styles.

by O Burdekin

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ArcGIS online (AGOL) is a great tool and here we look at joining data from a csv to a dataset of country outlines. Don't forget to check the training page ...

by O Burdekin

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Graphical modeler in QGIS allows you to record workflows and better manage and manipulate your data. Models can be shared with colleagues and results and methods are repeatable. Automating workflows ...

by O Burdekin

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In this video tutorial we take a look at using US election data and producing a value by alpha map (like a choropleth map but with a smoother colour scheme). ...

by O Burdekin

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Google Earth Engine is a very powerful tool providing access to a huge number of earth observation datasets. Rather than having to heavy processing on your own machine, Earth Engine ...

by O Burdekin

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In this GIS video tutorial we'll take a look at automating the application of style files to our free Ordnance Survey vector data usiing Python. We're using QGIS 3.4.15.

by O Burdekin

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How do you make a webmap? Well, it couldn't be easier today. QGIS has had several plugins developed to help with the process. In this series of video tutorials we ...

by O Burdekin

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Operation Wallacea have been working in Cusuco National Park for over 10 years. Long term standardised monitoring of a cloud forest such as Cusuco is rare. This web map allows ...

by O Burdekin

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Coordinate systems are crucial to GIS and the first port of call is to understand different ways coordinate systems can be written. Often you will encounter different formats (especially when ...

by O Burdekin

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How to stack labels in QGIS or wordwrap labels in the same field. If you know of any other methods let me know in the comments on the burdGIS YouTube ...

by O Burdekin

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QGIS can add labels automatically but their placement isn't always as you'd like it. This video shows you how to manually move labels in QGIS.

by O Burdekin

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This is a quick video to walk you through the installation and license activation of ArcGIS desktop (ArcMap) trial version. The trial version is active for 60 days.

by O Burdekin

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Sometimes ArcGIS doesn't render the way you would expect. I've had far fewer cases with Arc layouts than QGIS print composer but dashed lines behaving oddly has been bugging me. ...

by O Burdekin

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The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to increase conservation efforts and to counteract illegal activities including logging, mining and cattle rustling has surged over the last several years, particularly ...

by Thea Gordon-Rawlings

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If you've received a QGIS project from someone else (or you've changed the location of some files) you may get the "handle bad layers" pop up. This video will show ...

by O Burdekin

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The first step in starting with GIS is getting the software you require. This short video walks you through the installation of QGIS on a windows machine. If you have ...

by O Burdekin

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MaxEnt (maximum entropy) modelling software has often been accused of being a "black box". Used in ecology for species distribution modelling (SDM) the software has now been released as open ...

by O Burdekin

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The two previous entries in the series on rewilding have looked at relatively contained initiatives, both taking place on privately owned land. The aim of this post is to highlight ...

by Thea GR

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Chile is experiencing the worst forest fires in its history.
This map adds spatial context to the photographs in the recent Guardian article.
Fire incidence data ...

by O Burdekin

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When I'm training people in GIS I often get asked "where do you get data from?" This is the first in a series of videos exploring data sources. The global ...

by O Burdekin

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Getting data into QGIS can some times be a challenge. In this short video tutorial we look at importing excel, csv or any tabular data into QGIS.

by Oliver Burdekin

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The second in this short series of map stories on “rewilding” focuses on exploring a real example of where the method has been used to restore an environment and where ...

by Thea Gordon-Rawlings

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If you're used to working with rasters in ArcGIS switching to QGIS can be confusing. This short video shows you how to classify rasters using QGIS into discrete classifications. The ...

by O Burdekin

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As part of a series intended to filter through the murky waters of the emerging sphere of rewilding, this map story serves to outline the concept and to introduce some ...

by Thea Gordon-Rawlings

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Sequenced query language (SQL - pronounced "ess-que-el" or "sequel") is one of those things. It's useful, it's necessary, it's ubiquitous. But often it is underused. As Shachar Meir described in ...

by O Burdekin

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Identifying the natural capital and monitoring its condition in a fast changing world is crucial to guarantee its presence in the future. Biodiversity Inventory for Conservation (BINCO) and Friends of ...

by Simone Cutajar

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A tutorial to walk you through installing GeoDjango and its dependencies using Windows Powershell and a virtual environment.

by O Burdekin

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El terremoto en Ecuador ha devastado muchas ciudades, pueblos y comunidades a lo largo de la costa del Pacífico. Ecuador en su conjunto ha mostrado su solidaridad increíble con gente ...

by O Burdekin (traducción por Javier Pabón)

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The earthquake in Ecuador has devastated many towns, cities and communities along the Pacific Coast. Ecuador as a whole has shown incredible solidarity with people on the ground working tirelessly ...

by O Burdekin

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Freshwater ecosystems are the most endangered ecosystems in the world leading to freshwater fish being one of the most imperilled taxa worldwide.

This map, introduces the SAFE project in Sabah, ...

by Clare Wilkinson

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The current migrant crisis in Europe could be a harbringer of things to come with climate change threatening to become a greater force of displacement in the near future.

In ...

by Sophie Allen & Oliver Burdekin

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WeFarm provide internet for people without the internet.

There are 500 million smallholder farmers in the world, most of whom live on less than $1 a day.

With the majority ...

by WeFarm

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This new course will provide an introduction to the use of geographic information systems (GIS) in the study of tropical ecology. Unlike most traditional GIS courses which are desk-based, this ...

by O Burdekin

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Fracking is a contentious issue. On December 16th MPs voted on whether or not to allow fracking under the UK's National Parks.

298 voted in favour of the regulations

by O Burdekin

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How did your MP vote on airstrikes in Syria? This interactive map shows constituencies in the UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. No data was available for grey constituencies.

by O Burdekin

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Here's a map to look at tweets containing #COP21.

by O Burdekin

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Calakmul Biosphere Reserve is located in Campeche State, Mexico. The reserve is home to jaguar and tapir along with many endemic species. Operation Wallacea have been surveying the taxa of ...

by Caroline Acton

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Google has opened it's doors and you can now access #tensorflow. There's no support for window yet (linux and Mac only) but you may be able to install docker (not ...

by O Burdekin

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The fires in Indonesia have become a global concern. Although an annual occurrence, this year has been particularly damaging due to several factors. An extended dry season due to El ...

by O Burdekin

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Wide-spread fires have been burning in Indonesia for the last two months. The resulting haze over Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore which is thought to be impacting 40 million people and ...

by Fiona Spooner

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One of the many threats posed by climate change is sea level rise. The images below show what some landmarks might look like in the future.

by O Burdekin

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Ever since it was launched from the temple-like headquarters of the National Geographic Society in Washington in 1888, National Geographic magazine has illuminated the world’s hidden places and revealed its ...

by Paul Farhi

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OVER the last year Private Eye has revealed the extent of ownership of British land by offshore companies, generally for tax avoidance and often to conceal dubious wealth. Now the ...

by Private Eye

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At a staggering 2600 miles long, the Mekong is the 12th longest river in the world and the 7th longest in Asia. This epic river begins its journey on the ...

by Sophie Allen

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Google has reopened Map Maker, the platform that lets users to edit and improve Google Maps, with a new structure to better moderate community edits.

Google suspended Map Maker in ...

by Liam Tung

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Financial #markets across the world are down today as China sparks a global selloff. This map depicts the top 20 stock exchanges in the world and how much they have ...

by O Burdekin

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In recent years flooding in the UK has resulted in billions of pounds of damage to homes and businesses. British rivers are intensively managed; they have been straightened, cleared and ...

by Fiona Spooner

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In 2012 the Panama Canal Authority received a net income of 1.26 Billion USD. Citizens of Panama Celebrated the canal's 100th Anniversary on August 15th, 2014. With competition from neighbouring ...

by Fiona Spooner

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The following is a quick tutorial on how to set up a windows machine for a poor or data limited internet connection. It is specifically for volunteers and staff who ...

by O Burdekin

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Earlier today the Metro published a sensationalist story with the headline "Yes, a monster 400lbs killer shark has been caught in British waters." I thought I'd give this a bit ...

by O Burdekin

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Operation Wallacea is a network of academics from European and North American universities, who design and implement biodiversity and conservation management research programmes at 10 research sites worldwide.

We are ...

by Operation Wallacea

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Yesterday, a team of Italian scientists caught a frog in a montane forest in Tanzania. And then they made history: using a small blood sample the team were able to ...

by Jeremy Hance

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In the wake of the Nepal Earthquake burdGIS will donate 5% of all students' payments for courses during May to the Save the Children's Nepal Earthquake Children’s Relief Fund. If ...

by O Burdekin

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If you use command prompt it can get really tiresome typing in pathnames. This quick tutorial will give you some tips on how to open command prompt (cmd) at your ...

by O Burdekin

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(Reuters) - A Haitian marine biologist who successfully fought to create a national park to protect a large swath of Haiti's north coast has won a prominent U.S. environmental activism ...

by David Adams

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Those of us who have spent years studying “data smart” companies believe we’ve already lived through two eras in the use of analytics. We might call them BBD and ABD—before ...

by Thomas H. Davenport

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Jack Dangermond, CEO of Esri, shares his vision of how we can use GIS technology to shape and benefit our future. If you’re new to GIS, this video is a ...

by External Site

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Its name is derived from the word Serengit in the Maa language, meaning ‘endless plains’.

Serengeti National Park is part of a vast ecoregion spanning approximately 14,500km2.

Plans are underway ...

by Daisy Guest

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A simple enough question but I always find it difficult to answer. This short video from ESRI explains it well.

by ESRI

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Exporting tables from a geodatabase (gdb) can often be very time consuming, especially when the number of tables is very large. Using the ArcGIS Modelbuilder tool allows you to automatically ...

by Sven Batke

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On April 1, 1963, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a press release with the title, “GIANT CANADA GOOSE, LONG BELIEVED EXTINCT, REDISCOVERED IN MINNESOTA”. It was not an ...

by Mercenary Ornithology

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Peru is planning a major development in the form of a road. As you scroll through this story the map will update to show you the areas being discussed. This ...

by O Burdekin

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Global map of the world's ecology. 250m resolution. Where's the download?

by USGS

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We are seeking a highly motivated person with skills in data and database management, geographical information systems and a sound understanding of standardised ecological survey techniques. You will join our ...

by Operation Wallacea

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This is a little toolbox of happiness for a Thursday with brief tutorial thrown in.

The batch processing tools in ArcGIS always appeared a bit clunky to me although ...

by O Burdekin

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The Manu national park and its buffer zone in Peru was international news early last year after scientists found it is “top of the [world’s] list of natural protected areas ...

by David Hill @ The Guardian

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Temporal resolution shouldn’t be forgotten when considering satellite imagery; however it’s often neglected, with its partners of spatial and spectral resolution getting the limelight. The reason is the special relationship ...

by Andy @ pixalytics

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Data can arrive in many formats. Often for the GIS guru (you) it'll be from Excel. It could be any version of Excel, it could be correctly formatted with notes, ...

by O Burdekin

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The University of Glasgow shall be hosting the annual Scottish Tropical Ecology Conference.

We aim for the 2015 event to be an even bigger success than 2014, and want ...

by O Burdekin

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The 2015 EUROGEO Annual Meeting and Conference will be organised in conjunction with and hosted by the Turkish Association of Geographers (TAG), in Ankara on 21-22 May 2015. An optional ...

by EUROGEO

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Land is business. Land is money. Land is power. This is why it’s often confusing to find out which actors control what parts of the landscape. In this new infographic, ...

by CIFOR.org (on forestclimatechange.org)

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We learned many things about the ocean this year. Unfortunately, most of them are things we’ve learned before: Sea levels are rising, overfishing is destroying the seafood market and plastic ...

by Planet Editor (on planetexperts.com)

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Jack Dangermond, founder of the 45-year-old mapping software company Esri, thinks every businessperson needs more geospatial awareness.

In Jack Dangermond’s world, an interactive map is worth 100 charts.

by Heather Clancy (on fortune.com)

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