Out of all the essential software packages that I’ve mentioned on this blog, the Generic Mapping Tools are certainly the one that I’ve used the longest, for more than 20 years. Back then I think it […]
Essential software
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Organizing notes, thoughts, links and to-do lists is important to keep overview and free your brain capacity for other things. I’ve used various methods in the past: Like probably everybody else of my age, I started […]
Here are a couple of Windows tools that I find extremely useful. WinMerge Have you ever tried to manually find the differences between two text files, such as different versions of a piece of code or […]
I’ve long worked without a code versioning system – mostly because I usually work on a project alone. For a couple of years now I’ve regularly synced most of my code to Google Drive as backup […]
When dealing with point clouds, you’ll probably run into the LAS format at some point, as it is the file format most commonly used for point clouds acquired through laser scanning. LAS supports a number of […]
During my studies in geodesy and surveying, we did a lot of linear algebra computations, as adjustment theory requires matrix computations. Naturally, Matlab was used a lot – although I preferred to stick with C++ most […]
For my job I deal with point clouds almost daily – in fact, much of my programming revolves around point clouds and how to extract information from them automatically. This means that it is very important […]
There was a time when GIS (geographic information system) was synonymous with ArcGIS, a fact that ESRI could easily exploit to ask high license fees. Luckily, there’s an Open Source project that has matured from humble […]