Short Announcement: New Sentinel Cloudless Atlas
Mapbox created a cloudless Landsat map in 2013. That was a huge step for all the webmapping enthusiasts as we got a composit image of the world with…
Author: Riccardo
In 2008 I finished my degree in geography and mathematics at the FU Berlin in Berlin. After a short stay in science as a research assistant I am a project manager in the geo-industry.
Short Announcement: New OSM routing plugin for QGIS OSM Tools
Two years ago I wrote the OSMroute plugin which enable the QGIS user to use the OpenRouteService API for geocoding of points, accessibility analysis as well as routing…
Vagrant: Setup and Share your Digital Geo-Lab
In one of my last posts I described the installation of a git server to improve collaborative work in closed environments. But developing solutions can be a pain…
NASA’s Black Marble 2016 or Syrian Dark Years
About four years ago, Daniel wrote a short article on how to publish a GeoTiff as maptiles and how to use this in a leaflet map. I would…
Off Topic: self hosted GIT-server with Bonobo
This might be a bit off-topic for some of you but it was on my desk recently. Furthermore I think this might be interesting for GEO/GIS folks as…
Working with Clusters in Leaflet: Increasing Useability
In one of our latest projects we faced a sad truth: geocoding results often sucks and points are not scattered enough but concentrate on distinct locations and clusters…
ALOS World 3D V1.1 vs. SRTM1
Some days ago a new version of the ALOS 30m DEM was released: Void pixels due to clouds and snow pixels within 60 deg. of north and south…
Short Announcement: QGIS 3.0 is on its way
QGIS 3.0 is the next big release in terms of features and tools. As it is stated in this e-mail chain we could expect this new major release…
FME and Talend: ETL tools for your spatial data
Spatial data has some formats most of you know (shapefile, geoJSON, TiFF,…). But there is always a wide variety not only in available and used file formats but…
Isochrones in Webmaps: Three Approaches for Leaflet
As we are thinking more or less specially I always ask myself: where can I be in the next 30 minutes? Most of current webmaps out there are…
QGIS and basemaps: QuickMapServices
To work in QGIS is very often much more convenient if you can use a basemap for your data. In the past we used and promoted OpenLayers plugin…
Intergeo 2016 Day One: drones and drones and drones
The first day of the Intergeo 2016 and it was just mind blowing. The last years we saw a small increase in drone technology companies but especially here…