Advanced CartoCSS Techniques
Some obscure CartoCSS techniques by STAMEN’ Director of Technology, Seth Fitzsimmons. Two years old slides, but still quite useful.
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Fast contour lines using plain PostGIS
There’s a bunch of different ways to generate contour lines [1] from scatter data, each of them based on different interpolation algorithms. Like KNN [2], ID...
Some little known PostgreSQL/PostGIS tips & tricks
0. What’s this and what’s not
QuadGrid: fast spatial data generalization for the best LoD
Last years have seen the rise of data sources with IoT, AoT, mobile devices, beacons, etc. The study of this data can be quite profitable, but there are laws...
Using PostGIS for isovists calculation
First of all, what is an isovist? It’s simply the same as a viewshed… and what the heck is a viewshed? Let’s go to the Wikipedia:
Dymanically find loops in a tracks dataset
To write te article Spies in the sky, the authors needed a multi-step analysis, explained here
Retrieving detailed building heights from Spanish Cadaster
If you want to work with official buildings data in Spain, you can go to Sede Electrónica del Catastro and download the public available vector there. Within...
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