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{ Monthly Archives } September 2010

QGIS

I’ve been evaluating Quantum GIS lately. It looks as though it might work as a replacement for ArcView 3.2 for our purposes. Like any new program, there is a definite learning curve to be conquered. What I like: Free! This is a huge point as I don’t have much of a software budget Standard Windows [...]

ManureNet

Conservation Ontario has a manure management site up, ManureNet. What they’ve done is round up links to different aspects of manure management across Canada. If you want to see what the state of manure management research is in various provinces, this is a great place to start.

Snap2Other

With the wet weather, I’m in the office drawing fields instead of out there in them. I’m trying to improve the precision with which I draw fields from GPS tracks. I found that the free Arcview 3.2 extension Snap2Other is very helpful for fitting polygons to points. Here’s what I do to use it: Convert [...]