Daily Archives: February 21, 2012

Extract X and Y coordinates from a spatial table in Spatialite

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A quick note on adding two columns with X and Y values in a vector layer in spatialite. Spatialite stores the information about the geometry in binary format in the ‘Geometry’ field. You can use the Spatialite function AsText() to … Continue reading →

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NASA publishes new global map of the height of Earth’s forests

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Interesting new map of the height of Earth’s forests. See this article for more information or go the NASA lab propulsion laboratory website to download the map (kmz file to see the map in Google earth layer or a geotiff). … Continue reading →

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