INEGI, the Mexican institute for national statistics and geography, place large quantities of data in the public domain. Geographical data is now provided through an efficient map server. However most socio economic data is only available directly in the form of Excel spreadsheets from the descarga masiva site. http://www3.inegi.org.mx/sistemas/descarga/ These data vary in quality but…
One of the fastest ways of deploying the results of PostGIS queries on the web takes advantage of Geoserver SQL views. The process is very straight forward once you have installed and configured a Geoserver. The Geoserver layer from a PostGIS data store is just defined as an SQL query with placeholders for the variables…
The recent publication of Hansen and colleagues’ global deforestation map in a user friendly Google maps earth explorer format (including street view for Mexico) has received a great deal of publicity. So I placed the Landsat classification for Southern Mexico that our group published in Google maps using more or less the same format. Click…
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