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July 8 · Issue #4 · View online
Email digest of all things spatial, remote sensing, and GIS
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Hello everyone! It’s software update week, with major updates to both ArcGIS Pro and QGIS. Changelogs are linked below for you to explore the new features. It’s also learning week, apparently, since half the links in this newsletter focus on sites and books that you can use to learn skills related to GIS. If I had to say, my two favorite finds this week are Orange Data Mining and the Remote Pixel browser (the last link) - both are free. I’ve been doing some statistical modeling in Python, and Orange Data Mining could be a great companion, and then I download a fair amount of Landsat imagery, and the Remote Pixel browser makes that far simpler and faster! Enjoy.
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What's new in ArcGIS Pro 1.3—ArcGIS Pro | ArcGIS for Desktop
ArcGIS Pro 1.3 was released yesterday, and includes a whole slew of new features - go check out what’s new!
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QGIS 2.16.0 Visual Changelog
QGIS 2.16.0 releases today! Check out some of the great new features (including a non-modal style dock).
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CartoDB rebrands as Carto and opens location data mapping to non-coders
CartoDB changed it’s name to just Carto - Yesterday morning I got an images-only email in my spam folder from “Carto” and thought it was someone trying to capitalize on CartoDB’s name - oops.
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Orange Data Mining
The Orange Data Mining toolbox looks like a great set of tools for developing statistical models and workflows visually. I tried it out a bit, and it’s a nice way to work - and should even work for non-coders!
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GitHub - ArcBruTile
Not really a data repository, but sort of - ArcBruTile is an extension for ArcGIS that lets you load and view a wide variety of third party basemaps in ArcGIS
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VIM Adventures
From the site: “VIM Adventures is an online game based on VIM’s keyboard shortcuts. It’s the "Zelda meets text editing” game.“ I’ve learned VIM before, and decided it wasn’t the text editor for me, but if you’ve ever wondered why people love it and couldn’t get past the learning curve, this site could be a fun way to learn.
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PostgreSQL Exercises
I tell my students that SQL is one of the best things they can learn - it’s a simple, relatively intuitive language for accessing and subsetting data - this site has some free exercises that let you learn it online, without setting up software (a la codecademy).
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Tutorials - Leaflet - a JavaScript library for interactive maps
Ever wanted to learn how to make your own web maps? Leaflet.js has a whole tutorial section.
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Manning | Geoprocessing with Python
Want to write code to automate geoprocessing workflows with open source tools? This is the book on how - I’ve wanted to learn this for a while (almost all of my Python relies on ArcGIS), but the open source toolchain documentation isn’t great, so this might be a good resource!
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Geospatial Power Tools - Locate Press
Another option, similar to the previous book that focuses on using GDAL and OGR. Both books are well-reviewed (but by few people).
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Remote Pixel | Satellite Search
A seriously nice new browsers for finding and downloading Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 Images. USGS’ interface for Landsat isn’t bad, and neither is ESA’s interface for Sentinel, but this is just plain easy for most use cases.
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