Category: Tips and tricks

Random tricks collection, workarounds or shortcuts for day-to-day geoprocessing tasks

Getting started with Open Data Kit and CentOS VPS

Open Data Kit or ODK is (probably) one of the most underrated survey data management platform. Yet ODK powers a lot of successful commercial platform, (for example CommCare) and helping tons of commercial and non-commercial activities across the globe. As the name suggests, Open Data Kit is open source and can be downloaded, customized, deployed and used with few easy steps. Let’s get started with setting Open Data Kit on CentOS VPS. Continue reading

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Using Power BI to add interactive maps to websites

I have been playing with Business Intelligent software for sometime and discovered Microsoft Power BI. As BI suggests a collection of application to analyze and report from raw inputs for an organization, I am only interested the mapping part of it. Power BI let us add interactive maps and charts to any website and lets everyone play with it. Check out this simple example. Continue reading