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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pgRouting: A Practical Guide direct from LocatePress

PostGIS in Action
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PostgreSQL: Up and Running 3rd Edition

Tutorials

Article and Tutorial Comments

Tutorial and Tip Sites
Geographic Information Systems Stack Exchange more ... PostGIS Online Tutorials: Learn spatial SQL more ... UC Davis Soil Resource Laboratory more ... Mass GIS Tutorial Wiki more ... PostGIS Wiki more ... Paolo Corti Blog more ... SpatialDB Advisor more ...
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) more ...
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 more ...
GIS Events and Groups
AvidGeo LocationTech Tour Boston: December 8th, 2014 more ... FOSS4G NA 2015 - March 9th-12th, 2015 San Francisco, CA more ... FOSS4G 2014 - Portland, Oregon more ... Boston OSGeo Group more ...
GIS SDKs and Frameworks
MapWindow GIS more ... GeoServer more ... Open Layers more ... MapGuide Open Source more ... GDAL: Geospatial Data Abstraction Layer more ... DM Solutions - Maptools more ... Mapserver more ...
External Resources
Strange behavior by design of the spatial function Filter in SQL Server 2008 more ... SpatiaLite Manual more ... SQL Server 2008 Spatial Books On Line more ... SpatialReferences.org more ... IBM Informix Spatial DataBlade Module User's Guide more ... Open Source Geospatial Foundation more ... GIS Wiki more ... FreeGIS.org more ... Open Geospatial Consortium more ... PostGIS more ...
Glossary
SRID, SRS ID: Spatial Reference System Identifiers more ... OGC WFS more ... GIS: Geographic Information System more ... OGC WMS more ... OGC SFSQL more ...
GIS Blogs Around Boston
think.random-stuff.org: Allan Doyle more ... Boston GIS Blog more ... Chris Schmidt more ... Miguel de Icaza more ... Raj Singh more ...
External GIS Blogs
Selectoid Marc Jansen PostGIS, PostgreSQL and Web GIS more ... Masteusz Loskot more ... Paul Ramsey - Clever Elephant more ... Glenn Letham - Anything Geospatial more ... Jeff Hobbs Intergraph,GIS, and Oracle more ... Frank Warmerdam Geo-Geeking more ... Ed on Spatial more ... Unofficial ArcBlog: Marianne Cardwell more ... Nicklas Aven Jordogskog more ... Planet Geospatial more ... James Fee - Spatially Adjusted more ... Map Butcher: Simon Hope more ...
External Papers Articles
PostGIS in Action more ... Geoserver and Open Standards: A Success Story more ... Introduction to PostGIS more ... Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software more ... Introduction to Spatial Data Management with PostGIS more ... The State of Open Source GIS A great survey by Refractions summarizing the more popular Open-Source GIS projects. It provides such information as the licensing model used by each project, programming languages the project is developed in and supports,the strength of the development community, where each fits in the spectrum of GIS (e.g. web, desktop, Database, analysis), and formats supported by them. The survey is provided in PDF format. An Introduction to Opensource Geospatial Tools more ... PostGIS Manual more ...