Short Announcement: ESRI World Imagery Basemap now open for OSM Mapping
If you digitize features for OpenStreetMap you might have used Landsat data or the Bing basemap. Now we do have one other source for our armchair mapping approach:…
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 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…
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…