
Since 2007 I'm focused on Geography, GIS and remote sensing issues. In 2011 I founded geo-works.de, a german language geoblog. 2012 the blog was merged with geo-affine.org and now contains bilingual content. With new ideas and impetus I try to combine GIS-stuff with originary geographic thoughts, also in business projects.
What if you want to build your own webmap on your WordPress blog without any knowledge about javaScript, frontend web development and geojsons? You can use a plugin!…
Google Maps is one of the most popular web-based map services. If you want to adjust its style you can easily define a custom style sheet and embed…
The visualization and interpolation of 3D terrain (point) data (DEM or DOM) could be a hard task for current GIS software and small to midsize hardware. One thing…
As I realized that I have a really huge family I was keen to digitize the current family tree and get into contact to my relatives. For getting…
The well-known Q/A-forum StackExchange has started a new “Open Data” section. Users can ask for needed datasets and get feedback from the great StackExchange community. Especially for our…
Until now I tried to ignore the worldwide Pokémon Go hype. But as the mobile game consists more or less of a map and some geo-related content, we…
Today I received the newsletter from Mapbox with interesting screenshots of their new mapstyles. The company convinced many users with nice basemap styles already in the past. Now…
Navigating from a to b is really easy today. Once you have a power connector in your car (bike, bicycle, scooter or whatever) and a mounting point, smartphones…
Recently I found a nice tool that generates stratigraphic tables (geology) for free. TimeScale Creator is Java-based (works with Win, Linux and MacOS) and allows you to compose…
The geospatial media industry is really negligible. Some blogs here, some magazines there. Luckily their authors are very hard-working. This article will introduce a magazine called “Geospatial World”…
The free and open source gis QGIS started an user survey on its online webpage. The project needs your input to get the best necessary community information for…