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Shapefiles : are a data exchange format created by ESRI and one of the most widely used GIS/geodata formats. One "shapefile" usually include four different files : .shp, .shx, .dbf, .prj.
In 2007, Procedural Inc. was founded and separated from ETH Zurich, the top-ranking technology university in Switzerland.In the summer of 2011, [2] Procedural Inc. was acquired by Esri Inc and became Esri R&D Center Zurich, continually studying in the fields of computer graphics, computer vision, software engineering, finance, marketing, and business.
Online collection of all digital USGS 1:24K scale topographic maps (as well as various other GIS data) covering the United States, available as a free download. NPScape United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NPScape is a landscape dynamics monitoring project that provides landscape-level data, tools, and evaluations for ...
The Skia Graphics Engine or Skia is an open-source 2D graphics library written in C++. Skia abstracts away platform-specific graphics APIs (which differ from one to another). [ 1 ] Skia Inc. originally developed the library; Google acquired it in 2005, [ 2 ] and then released the software as open source licensed under the New BSD free software ...
A GIS software program is a computer program to support the use of a geographic information system, providing the ability to create, store, manage, query, analyze, and visualize geographic data, that is, data representing phenomena for which location is important.
WMS is a widely supported format for maps and GIS data accessed via the Internet and loaded into client side GIS software. Major commercial GIS and mapping software that support WMS include: Autodesk's Map 3D and Civil 3D products; Bentley Systems' MicroStation, Bentley Map, desktop and server based GIS products; Cadcorp SIS product suite; D3.js
They make it sound like it is more about capturing usage data - the registration form was quite detailed (it wanted institution, phone number etc) and I needed to select between one of the following to download the data: "disasters, health, energy, climate, water, weather, ecosystems, agriculture, or biodiversity".
A GIS file format is a standard for encoding geographical information into a computer file, as a specialized type of file format for use in geographic information systems (GIS) and other geospatial applications. Since the 1970s, dozens of formats have been created based on various data models for various purposes