Some great news for those interested in the convergence between Ruby/Rails and Geospatial applications. Kashif and I will be giving a tutorial at RailsConf in Berlin. There is going to be 3 hr tutorial titled Rails GIS Hacks, where we will be going through some pretty nifty stuff such as RESTful geospatial applications development. [...]
Yes i know that looks like ArcGIS… that’s because it is. I did a screen cast of what we (Minh & myself) have manged to complete of the WCS client its far from finished. The image below is from the part where i opened the downloaded data in ArcGIS to process.
Enjoy this for now, [...]
This utility lets you perform spatial analysis by combining raster and vector datasets:
http://starspan.casil.ucdavis.edu/
potentially very usefull, for example, for combining hyperspectral data with land class vector data.