Short Announcement: Landsat 8 Data Users Handbook
Landsat 8 is the successful successor of Landsat 5/ Landsat 7. It was launched on February 11, 2013. Since then we saw a major increase in possibilities of getting…
Month: June 2015
Attention: QGIS 2.10 is coming!
Four months ago QGIS 2.8 was released. The Long Term Release will be suppported for the next 2 years. Besides this LTR version QGIS is updated in a…
First images from recently launched Sentinel 2 satellite
The earth observation satellite Sentinel-2 with Sentinel-2A and Sentinel 2B was launched on June 23rd 2015 from space centre Kourou in French Guiana. The mission is part of…
Pros and Cons of using Smartphone as a GPS Tool
In a statistical report entitled US Smartphone Use in 2015, it revealed that some 88 percent of American smartphone owners use their handset as a map or navigation…
How far can you travel? Answers in QGIS with OSM route.
My latest posts on routing in QGIS were read from some guys at the University Heidelberg who provide the API for the routing. The contacted me with the…
Routing in QGIS… with OSM
Routing with Google is quite cool as the database/network is probably the best currently available. But the terms of services limit the possible usage. So what about OpenStreetMap?…
Routing in QGIS … with Google
Routing in QGIS was, as far as I know, always dependent on an available network. Either you had some database which was pgrouting enabled, or you had some…