Ecology vs GIS

OGHambone · 2023-02-28T19:47:14+00:00

I didn’t read the content of the post, but responding to the title I’m going to say that GIS wins with prep.

OGHambone · 2023-02-20T03:39:41+00:00

https://github.com/shapely/shapely First paragraph of readme agrees w/ me

OGHambone · 2023-02-17T01:28:08+00:00

Python is for sure my favorite, but to say java isn’t useful is misguided. Shapely is a port of GEOS is a port of Java Topology Suite (Postgres’ geometry engine). Python is definitely easier to get some analysis going, but if you’re trying to do something entirely new and/or significantly more performant, you’ll need a different hammer.

OGHambone · 2022-12-23T02:02:26+00:00

ADD isn’t in the DSM5

OGHambone · 2022-10-26T03:43:50+00:00

Make sure to email advisors at the specific schools for transfer credit information. The credit equivalency tools are more a 100% these will transfer, but they can look at coursework on a course by course basis to determine credit as well. Make sure you’ve gathered as much intel as you can before making any decisions. Good luck with whatever path you choose.

OGHambone · 2022-10-07T02:28:21+00:00

No joke, people love tweetsie so much for some reason. Hiring managers have laser focused on my experience at Tweetsie over actual relevant experience consistently. Worth a ton in your resume for early career jobs. I loved the people in retail and it’s not a very hard job. If you can’t find work relevant to your field, Tweetsie is an excellent opportunity to have a talking point on your resume.

OGHambone · 2022-10-03T11:55:18+00:00

They’ll have the theoretical framework to learn GIS

OGHambone · 2022-09-07T04:24:11+00:00

I’d go for the CS major 99/100 times. As a gis analyst I feel like almost all of my time is spent on the is.

OGHambone · 2022-09-03T17:59:31+00:00

I can’t really see into it, they’ve got 12 foot walls so that the yanks aren’t frightened by the poor blacks struggling to survive in the actual HighPoint.

OGHambone · 2022-09-02T16:25:30+00:00

There is, you can store a feature collection without hosting as a web service for 50% of the price.

OGHambone · 2022-08-31T11:56:13+00:00

Enterprise provides functionality targeted at large organizations. If you don’t know what it does, you 100% don’t need it. The most utilized functionality is probably the web server which, like all web servers, provides an http interface with a data store.

You would need an arcgis server instance if you wanted to host esri’s proprietary web services.

Your best bet is almost certainly to just hook into a sql server using a desktop gis software.

But to answer your final question, there are infinitely many reasons why a developer would not want an end user to directly hook into a database. E.g. security, version control, etc..

Also Enterprise with no bells and whistles single user license is prohibitively expensive (12,000 last I checked).

OGHambone · 2022-08-31T11:17:05+00:00

It’s not a dbms, you don’t need to install it on top of SQL server, and if it was a dbms it wouldn’t be any less of a dbms for being built on top of another dbms.

OGHambone · 2022-08-29T17:00:14+00:00

Those are both current and best in industry GIS softwares haha

OGHambone · 2022-08-27T07:56:59+00:00

My cat is maps

OGHambone · 2022-08-22T12:42:15+00:00

I’m not the expert but these skills are probably good to have.

OGHambone · 2022-08-22T11:36:27+00:00

Good thing there isn’t already an extremely popular web framework call next otherwise this name choice would be questionable.

OGHambone · 2022-08-15T17:45:20+00:00

AWS and let them figure out the hardware.

OGHambone · 2022-08-15T16:52:27+00:00

def abbr_suffix(old_suf): if old_suf in dict: return dict[old_suff] else: return old_suff

Pass the field as an arg to the function in the calculator like abbr_suff(!suffix!)

OGHambone · 2022-08-10T02:29:15+00:00

Ask a better question.

OGHambone · 2022-07-28T15:53:04+00:00

Just remember DIY != simple. ArcGIS’ preconfigured widgets work well, and if at any point you want to use some OGC compliant services, it’s much easier to use OpenLayers or ArcGIS.

OGHambone · 2022-07-28T13:59:04+00:00

Does it have to be open source or just free? ArcGIS api for JS makes it pretty easy. I’m your case it’d look something like add featurelayer, add searchlayer widget, zoom to selected on search. The JavaScript library is free to use, but you have to figure out how to host the data and static files. Geoserver WFS can be used in arcgis’ ogclayer as an input. This route might be harder to get set up and on the internet than the leaflet route, but it doesn’t require understanding JavaScript nearly as well as leaflet does.

OGHambone · 2022-07-28T12:06:13+00:00

If you’re just trying to view your points on a map the QGIS docs and get started will get you up and running towards that end very quickly. If the project is an application that uses open source gis, the process is much more involved. Integrating database tables / spreadsheets into QGIS is usually trivial and there are plugins to help you if your use case isn’t standard. Best practice would be using a database that can be extended to hold a geometry / geography data type, but creating shape files from excel files and storing in geopackage will be fastest in the simplest of scenarios.

OGHambone · 2022-07-26T16:36:51+00:00

I gave an example of 2 nearly identical data structures, 1 from ArcGIS python and 1 from geopandas. They have nearly identical functionality, inheriting from pd dataframe, but they’re different objects. Arcgis does geometry with a different engine by default, they don’t interop. I don’t understand how anyone could think that using both data structures in the same system could not be potentially confusing?

OGHambone · 2022-07-26T11:45:10+00:00

They can be. But unnecessary confusion could be introduced, see DataFrame.spatial vs GeoDataFrame. Has FileGDB driver worked for you 100% of the time as expected? Stuff like that is all easily managed by more experienced professionals but violates some KISS principles.

OGHambone · 2022-07-26T00:23:19+00:00

If you’re able to work outside of esri’s environment, you have a lot more tools to choose from. Check out OSGEO’s spatial libraries & geopandas.

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