Check out my new book on over 16 different Python 3 geospatial modules, written with Erik van Rees and Paul Crickard.
Find it here from Packt Publishing:
https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/mastering-geospatial-analysis-python
It’s also available on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Geospatial-Analysis-Python-Silas/dp/1788293339
Loki Intelligent is pleased to join others in supporting the efforts of Regina Obe as she works tirelessly to produce PostGIS tools for GIS developers.
Here is her Patreon page, where you can join us in supporting her efforts:
https://www.patreon.com/reginaobe
Here is a PDF of our presentation on data-driven neighborhoods, as presented to the Sacramento GIS Users Group on May 2nd, 2018.
New Episode now available! Silas and Todd talk with Alex Mahrou of Projected.XYZ fame about Esri and more.
The Mappyist Hour is now on iTunes, so it’s available on the iPhone Podcast app. Here is the Soundcloud version:
Loki Intelligent’s Silas Toms is now a host of the Mappyist Hour, a podcast dedicated to the people and technologies of GIS. Join him and Todd Barr as they discuss everything geospatial:
The new book is coming along wonderfully, and with a few schedule adjustments, looks to be complete by the end of March. My chapters cover Python web frameworks for web mapping. Using Flask and Django, the reader will build a geodatabase and interact with it using the Model/View/Controller architectural pattern. It will also cover the creation of a geospatial REST API and interactions with cloud geodatabases such as CARTO and MapD using Python bindings.
Other chapters will cover the use of Python for GDAL & OGR, PostGIS, ArcGIS Online, and many more geospatial technologies. It’s a wide ranging book, with basic code recipes and explanations that will help expand the toolset of all GIS professionals.
The reviewers are now hard at work, correcting the text and helping with the code. Karla King is a GIS data engineer who has worked with traditional survey and GIS tools, been a technical writer, and has recently been developing web mapping applications. Rachel Stevenson is a cartographer with the US Geological Survey, and is pursuing her master’s degree in Geospatial Science.
I’m looking forward to getting in your hands!
In partnership with BayGeo’s GIS Education Center and City College of San Francisco, we are pleased to offer a three part course covering Python for geospatial analysis. These classes will be ongoing from February through April.
Part 1 will introduce Python programming basics, including data types, data containers, and terminology.
Part 2 will apply Python basics to the automation of ArcGIS software. This class will cover ArcPy and ArcREST.
Part 3 will introduce geospatial analysis modules for Python 3.
Check out the workshops, which can be taken separately or together, on the CCSFGIS website: http://ccsfgis.org/workshops
All classes include a free 1-year license of ArcGIS!
Our President, Silas Toms, was interviewed last week by @KubaKonczyk for his site. We discussed career inspirations, geospatial analysis, programming, what we’re doing with Loki Intelligent, and GIS at the Super Bowl.
Listen here to the interview: http://kubakonczyk.com/interview-with-silas-toms-the-python-expert-who-brought-gis-to-the-super-bowl/
Thanks again to Kuba!
I want to say thanks to Professor Amy Rock, and organizer Nathaniel Douglas, for letting me speak about the future of GIS yesterday. It was great to connect to the HSU geography program as an alum who is working in GIS and wants to help students forge a career in this field.
