The end product: three years of police reported bicycle crashes in the City of Chicago on an interactive map powered by Google Fusion Tables, another product in Google’s arsenal of GIS for the poor man. See the screenshot below.Ī screenshot of the three bicycle crash datasets (2007, 2008, 2009) with the visualization data added.
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I did use fTools later in the process to add lat/long coordinates to my single shapefile.Īfter adding more data to better visualize the crashes in Chicago, I noticed that uDig renders maps to look smoother and slightly prettier than QGIS or ArcGIS. I could then bring this data back into QGIS to finish the process (outlined above under Project). The new records were added within a couple seconds. Highlight all the records in the attribute table of one shapefile, click Edit>Copy, then select the destination table and click Edit>Paste. The join feature in fTools wasn’t working so I looked for a new solution, uDig, or “User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS.”
UDIG APPLICATION HOW TO
In reaching my goal I had a task that I couldn’t figure out how to complete with QGIS:Â I needed to combine three shapefiles with identical table schemes into one shapefile – this one shapefile would eventually be published as one map.
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I really like QGIS because there’re many plugins, it’s open source, there’s a diverse community supporting it, and best of all, it’s free. I’ve tried my hand at Cartographica and QGIS.
UDIG APPLICATION MAC OS X
I also use Mac OS X most of the time and ArcGIS is not available for Mac. I don’t like that it’s expensive, unwieldy to install and update, and its user interface is stymying and slow*. ArcGIS is the standard in geographic information system applications.