The histories of some pieces of land in Chicago are well-known. The Thompson Center in the Loop stands on the former site of the Sherman House Hotel. The Chicago Police Belmont Area Headquarters and ...

Microsoft’s research arm has long been fascinated with working with large amounts of data at scale. Projects like TerraServer explored how to search and display geospatial data, mixing mapping and ...

Fire insurance maps are an invaluable resource for anyone trying to understand how cities have changed over the past century. The challenge has always been unlocking what's inside them—that is, until ...

This is a QGIS plugin for producing land use plans and is compatible with Ryhti, the Finnish national built environment information system. The plugin is expected to be used with the arho-ryhti ...

The bulk of the qgis module is a SIP-generated wrapper over a C++ source that is only available at runtime. This means that developers are "flying blind" when writing code that uses the qgis module.

In this study, a new tool for quantitative, data-driven susceptibility zoning (SZ) is presented. The SZ plugin has been implemented as a QGIS plugin to maximize its operational use within the ...

An increasing number of web services providing convenient access to seismological data have become available in recent years. A huge effort at multiple levels was required to achieve this goal and the ...