Line of Sight Analysis
One of the big problems that the wind indusrty has run into in developing wind farms is that people do not want to see the towers. You can use some very expensive software to do a viewshed analysis, but I have found a very afforable alternative. Global Mapper has a built in function to be [...]
The National Map Seamless Server
The National Map Seamless Server has a lot of useful GIS data. One of the best aspects is that they have ortho imagery that you can download in various formats so that you do not have to convert images if you do not have the ability to view a specific format. This is very useful [...]
Online KML to Shapefile converter
If you ever have had a client say that they have data that they want you to incorporate into a mapping project but it is in KML format. It is gettign easier to use these consumer formats, and convert them into shapefile for use in professional GIS software. I recently came across the new online [...]
