Items tagged gis in Mar
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mapshaper.org (via) It turns out the mapshaper CLI tool for manipulating geospatial data—including converting shapefiles to GeoJSON and back again—also has a web UI that runs the conversions entirely in your browser. If you need to convert between those (and other) formats it’s hard to imagine a more convenient option. # 23rd March 2024, 3:44 am
Claude and ChatGPT for ad-hoc sidequests
Here is a short, illustrative example of one of the ways in which I use Claude and ChatGPT on a daily basis.
[... 1754 words]geoBoundaries. This looks useful: “The world’s largest open, free and research-ready database of political administrative boundaries.” Founded by the geoLab at William & Mary university, and released under a Creative Commons Attribution license that includes a requirement for a citation. File formats offered include shapefiles, GeoJSON and TopoJSON. # 24th March 2022, 2:03 pm
New call queue ready to test. Also geography.
I just shipped the first working preview version of the new /api/requestCall API [#54]—the API that our caller app uses to get the next location that the caller should be contacting (and lock it so that other users don’t call it at the same time).
Geospatial Indexing in MongoDB (via) New in version 1.3.3. Handles “order by distance from” queries using a geohash approach under the hood, automatically searching nearby grid squares until the correct number of results have been gathered. Bounding box search is planned for a future release. # 2nd March 2010, 8:12 pm