celoyd

This is my default career advice for people starting out in geo/GIS, especially remote sensing, adapted from a response to a letter in 2013.

I'm currently about to start a Geography degree at the University of [Redacted] at [Redacted] with a focus in GIS, and I've been finding that I have an interest in working with imagery. Obviously I should take Remote Sensing and other similar classes, but I'm the type of person who likes to self learn as well. So my question is this: What recommendations would you give to a student who is interested in working with imagery? Are there any self study paths that you could recommend?

I learned on my own and on the job, and there are a lot of important topics in GIS that I don’t know anything about, so I can’t give comprehensive advice. I haven’t arrived anywhere; I’m just ten minutes ahead in the convoy we’re both in. Take these recommendations critically.

Find interesting people. You’ll learn a lot more from a great professor (or mentor, or friend, or conference) o

lucasallan

# Some good references are:
# http://russbrooks.com/2010/11/25/install-postgresql-9-on-os-x
# http://www.paolocorti.net/2008/01/30/installing-postgis-on-ubuntu/
# http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-1.5/ch02.html#id2630392

#1. Install PostgreSQL postgis and postgres

brew install postgis
initdb /usr/local/var/postgres
pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres -l /usr/local/var/postgres/server.log start

cavedave

library(idbr) # devtools::install_github('walkerke/idbr')
library(ggplot2)
library(animation)
library(dplyr)
library(ggthemes)

idb_api_key("")

djq

# examples from: http://kateto.net/network-visualization

library('igraph')
library('network')
library('sna')
library('ndtv')
library('visNetwork')

# load data
setwd('/Users/djq/Desktop/net-viz/data')

mingderwang

download tarball (http://s3tools.org/download)

$ sudo python setup.py install

$ s3cmd --configure                          

Enter new values or accept defaults in brackets with Enter.
Refer to user manual for detailed description of all options.

Access key and Secret key are your identifiers for Amazon S3

timlinux

# coding=utf-8
 
# A simple demonstration of how to load a QGIS project and then
# show it in a widget.
# This code is public domain, use if for any purpose you see fit.
# Tim Sutton 2015
 
import os
from qgis.core import QgsProject
from qgis.gui import QgsMapCanvas, QgsLayerTreeMapCanvasBridge

dstufft

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numan

"""
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2011 Numan Sachwani

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in
the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to
use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies
of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do
so, subject to the following conditions:

alexbowe

import nltk

text = """The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital
computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain
or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha...which is
to demean oneself."""

# Used when tokenizing words
sentence_re = r'''(?x)      # set flag to allow verbose regexps
      ([A-Z])(\.[A-Z])+\.?  # abbreviations, e.g. U.S.A.

tmcw

This is a non-technical reading list for technical people.

• How to Program Independent Games
• Kill Math (and Don't Kill Math)
• Move Fast and Don't Break Things
• Launch & The Web Is a Customer Service Medium by Paul Ford
• _why at Art & Code
• Repetitive Process

This is a list of software you should read like a novel.