Questions tagged [geospatial]
Geospatial pertains to the geographic location and characteristics of natural or constructed features and boundaries on, above, or below the earth's surface; esp. referring to data that is geographic and spatial in nature.
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Convert British and Irish National Grid references to or from WGS84 geodetic coordinates
I've been using this wgs84togrid program for a few years. It converts in both directions between National Grid coordinates for GB or Ireland (beginning with a ...
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Parsing GPS data
Recently I sent this code snippet as CV attachment and I got simple answer - this code smells and we employ another developer.
I'm new to RoR, so guys can you give me directions to refactor this code ...
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Work order spatial query (Part 1)
Part 1: General Cleanup
(Edit: Part 2 is here.)
I have a script in a Work Order Management System (Maximo) that performs a spatial query.
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Takes the X&Y coordinates of a work order in ...
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Latitude and Longitude types
I wrote this code when reviewing Define a class for latitude and longitude in C++ using boost::units and spheroidal coordinates. As I've not used Boost::Units before, I thought it worth reviewing in ...
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Finding travel distance between airports
I have 2 nested for loops which i want to get rid of. Any thoughts?
I am calculating distance between cities based on their longitude and latitude. There is a custom function ...
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Work order spatial query (Part 2)
Part 2: Error Handling (and anything else that can be improved)
(Part 1 focused on general cleanup.)
I received this comment in an unrelated post (thanks @Milton):
...Since it is obvious you are ...
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