I've already looked at some GIS applications available on Linux. Programs like GRASS and qgis provide a full set of tools to do GIS. Sometimes, that's really overkill though. You may just want to ...

In this article, I want to look at a GIS option available for Linux—specifically, a program called SAGA (System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses). SAGA was developed at the Department of Physical ...

Warning: This is a seriously nerdy blog post. If you just want the B.C. FSA boundary files and not my long-winded explanation of how I made them, you can get the SHP file here and the KML here. But if ...

We have these nice interactive maps made by CP with population figures for every census tract at major metropolitan areas. It will be updated with more data as new census figures come out throughout ...