Tipologías usuarios Madrid Río. Estadísticas y tendencias interesantes

Para la multitud de personas a las que como a mí, les ha sorprendido esta infrastructura en frente de sus casas hay posibilidad de encontrarse en el mismo metro cuadrado a alguien corriendo, alguien andando, una pareja con un carrito de niños, unos amigos en patines, alguna persona en bici… unos más rápido y unos más lento, todos hemos de convivir en un trazado de unos 7,5km de largo y no más unos metros de ancho, con lo que unas mínimas normas de circulación se imponen.

DTM validation using Google Earth (and RMSE extraction)

Hi guys, Surfing the internet is great when you need to figure out something. I needed to validate some DTM from unknown sources against an also unknown source (but at least a kind of reliable one, Google Earth). All we need is Google Earth TCX converter ARcGIS Excel This is the procedure i have followed:Continue reading “DTM validation using Google Earth (and RMSE extraction)”

Pearson correlation and GIS

Do these two variables have a correlation?. To answer this important question first of all we have to know that only if it’s a linear relationship and there are no outliers we can take advantage of Mr Pearson’s correlation statiscal tool. If i love chocolate, does this mean i have tendency of being chuby? orContinue reading “Pearson correlation and GIS”

Comparing France Meteo and Spain Meteo from the visualization point of view

After living in France for four years i have to tell i am always aware of Meteo information on TV (well, i live in Brittany, i guess this makes sense!). It was the same in Spain or anywhere else in the world where i had lived and the reason why is i have always lovedContinue reading “Comparing France Meteo and Spain Meteo from the visualization point of view”

Advanced Thematic Cartography IGN Spain

A few lines for leting you know i passed this course last year 2013 in Instituto Geográfico of Spain (IGN). Spatial analysis, Spatial stats, proper simbolization, data mining and geovisualization. A very interesting 40h online course that helps me on a daily basis to be able to show geodata in a more professional way. BecauseContinue reading “Advanced Thematic Cartography IGN Spain”

HTML High resolution DTM visualization using QGIS

This QGIS Plugin, Qgis2threejs, exports terrain data, map canvas image and vector data to your web browser!! All you have to do is opening the DTM in QGIS (2.4.0 Chugiak), go to plugins library and install Qgis2threejs. Once its installed you will see this icon on screen and you will need to clic on it. ThenContinue reading “HTML High resolution DTM visualization using QGIS”

DTM from SRTM? Let’s compare sources using RMSE (Root Mean Square Error) and a gaussian kernell density map

I guess we all can make a DTM out of many sources but SRTM is one of the most common ones, right?. Then let’s learn from this very simple approach how close we are from the SRTM raw data. Selecting a not very big representative area to be able to handle it, exporting raster to polygon (fromContinue reading “DTM from SRTM? Let’s compare sources using RMSE (Root Mean Square Error) and a gaussian kernell density map”

La geografía española (con minúsculas)

Aquí la ‘convesación’ via twitter con el presentador de TVE Jacob Petrus. Me quejé de que se mencionara dentro de una frase, como tantas veces hemos oído, en radio y televisión, la expresión ‘La geografía española…’ refiriéndose a España en general. Lo que me indignó fue que Jacob Petrus es Geógrafo además de presentador generalistaContinue reading “La geografía española (con minúsculas)”

‘Reality Checks’, also called ‘Ground Truth Tests’

Comparing all kind of Geodata (i.e 3D Buildings, DTM, DHM, DSM, Land Use, vectors,…) to background sources as Google Earth/ Bing, available sources from the country we are working on or WMS available sources, etc. Figuring out if the data requested and we want to deliver is consistent enough compared to the so called “Truth”. SomeContinue reading “‘Reality Checks’, also called ‘Ground Truth Tests’”

RSME comparing LIDAR data with a third party’s 3D dataset

I would like to share with you an easy analysis i have been working in the last days. I had a vector dataset of buildings and i knew how high they were (there was a field called ‘AGL’ or Above Ground Level) and a LIDAR 2m resolution dataset over the city of London. My aimContinue reading “RSME comparing LIDAR data with a third party’s 3D dataset”