I'm working on some code for quickly pulling together shapefile data and other data (statistics, etc) and spitting out maps. That means JOINs. Thanks to the 1990-quality standards of GIS, attribute tables are in dbf files. How does one deal with these blasts from the past? [more inside]
posted by tmcw on Apr 28, 2009 - 5 answers

How do I convert a large raster image into a table for analysis and manipulation? [more inside]
posted by agentofselection on Dec 14, 2008 - 9 answers

Has anyone here developed custom GIS apps with ESRI's Java Map Objects? Cost and licensing issues aside, how does it compare with open Java GIS libraries such as GeoTools?
posted by badstone on Jan 19, 2004 - 1 answer