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Where is the RS love…

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006

So I have looked around a little to find an actual remote sensing package for the Mac, but I haven’t had much luck. You can do a good bit of raster manipulation in GRASS, but it isn’t really an RS package. Others offer various raster operations, but they don’t even really match even [...]

WebMapping on the MBP

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

Even though the MBP is essentially a portable FreeBSD box complete with most things you need to run a website (apache is preinstalled), that doesn’t mean that it can view all pages. As you can guess, anything that requires IE6/7 isn’t going to work in any of the native Mac browsers. So right [...]

Data storage

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

I just haven’t had a chance to put an existing project on the MBP. I have plenty of space but no memory (mental not computer)
Now, I have a 120GB drive (~111GB) which is divided into a 96GB Mac partition and a 15.5 GB FAT32 partition. I currently have two 8GB virtual [...]

Important GIS on Mac links

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

While most *ix-based server products will run on MacOS X, there is much more that you can do from dual booting or virtualizing your Intel-based Mac to running some great desktop apps. This is a short list of what is out there just to get you started. I found most of these when [...]

First step…install something

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

With the impending release of ArcGIS 9.2 I have naturally decided to install ArcGIS on the MBP.  I installed 9.1 in Parallels over the weeked and it runs sufficiently for your everyday tasks.  It is likely that when more memory arrives in a couple of days it will run even better.
Now on to the installation [...]