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Purpose of BostonGIS

BostonGIS is a testbed for GIS and Web Mapping solutions utilizing open source, freely available and/or open gis technologies. We will be using mostly Boston, Massachusetts data to provide mapping and spatial database examples.

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GIS Tutorials on Opensource and OpenGIS technologies Tutorials
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Tutorial and Tip Sites
Desktop GIS
OpenJump more ...
Portable GIS : GIS Tools on a USB Stick more ...
gvSIG: GIS Mapping Desktop Client more ...
QGIS more ...
User-Friendly Desktop Intenet GIS (uDig) more ...
MassGIS Online Viewer (OLIVER)

OLIVER - What is it?

MassGIS Online Viewer (OLIVER) is a free web mapping tool for browsing Massachusetts data layers and gis layers. One of the really neat things about this tool is that it allows you to select from numerous layers and select the region on the map you would like to extract data for. The output format is a set of ESRI shapefiles (.shp). The generated shapefiles are zipped up into a single file for easy download.



External Data
Baruch CUNY GIS Data Sets more ...
Geofabric OSM data Extracts more ...
US Census Tiger Street Index more ...
OpenStreetMap more ...
Massachusetts Office Of Transportation and Planning (EOT) Road Inventory more ...
U.S. Census Cartography Boundary Files more ...
USGS Seamless Data Distribution System more ...
US National Atlas more ...
MassGIS WebServices more ...
Mass GIS Free GIS Raster and Vector Layers

This site is chuck full of free data layers for Massachusetts. It has Tiger Street Index, Census Data, Black and White Orthos, Color Orthos, Building Footprints, Congressional , Senate, House voting districts, Schools, etc. for the state of Massauchusetts. All freely downloadable or on CD for a nominal fee.

NOTE: The Massachusetts Assessors' Parcels layer for most Massachusetts Towns was released recently and can be downloaded from here. Sadly Boston is still at Level 0 in terms of the quality and quantity of information you can get from this feed.



GIS Events and Groups
GIS SDKs and Frameworks
External Resources
Glossary
GIS Blogs Around Boston
External GIS Blogs
External Papers Articles
GIS Quick Guides and References
OpenStreetMap and OpenLayers Tutorials
PostGIS, pgRouting, and PostgreSQL Tutorials
Part 1: Getting Started With PostGIS: An almost Idiot's Guide more ...
pgRouting: Loading OpenStreetMap with Osm2Po and route querying more ...
Part 1: Getting Started With PostGIS: An almost Idiot's Guide (PostGIS 2.0) more ...
OSCON 2009: Tips and Tricks for Writing PostGIS Spatial Queries more ...
PGCon2009: PostGIS 1.4, PostgreSQL 8.4 Spatial Analysis Queries, Building Geometries, Open Jump more ...
PLR Part 3: PL/R and Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) RGDAL more ...
PostGIS Nearest Neighbor: A Generic Solution - Much Faster than Previous Solution more ...
Solving the Nearest Neighbor Problem in PostGIS more ...
PLR Part 2: PL/R and PostGIS more ...
PLR Part 1: Up and Running with PL/R (PLR) in PostgreSQL: An almost Idiot's Guide more ...
Part 3: PostGIS Loading Data from Non-Spatial Sources more ...
Part 2: Introduction to Spatial Queries and SFSQL with PostGIS more ...
Miscellaneous Tutorials/Cheatsheets/Examples
SpatiaLite Tutorials
Boston External Map Examples
SQL Server 2008 Tutorials
UMN Mapserver Tutorials
General Commentary
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