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…
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.
QGIS 2.16 tutorial: georeferencing images
Since our last tutorial regarding georeferencing images in QGIS is 4 years old, let us have a second look at this task in the current times of QGIS…
The Coup in Turkey: the Twitter Perspective
The coup/attempt in Turkey kept me up from going to sleep after the two nice hours of “Back to the Future” on German television. So despite of the…
5 ways to get a job in the “geo-industry”
Studying geosciences, geography or geology and all related disciplines commonly ends in the question of appropriate job position. Personally I felt very lucky about my former studies in…
Geocoding in GIS: ArcGIS, QGIS, Leaflet
The recent move from the Mongolian Post to use W3W as their new address system shed a new light on the question: Where are addresses located and how…
PostgreSQL and PostGIS: A brief introduction
You probably seen this already (maybe on your very own PC as well): A folder with shape files. Well we’re living in the 21st century and I do…
Filter Leaflet Maps with a Slider
If you create maps you always need to ask yourself: how can I make it as easy as possible to read and still have anything I need in…
Software I use in both worlds: Windows & Ubuntu
I am somehow a messy guy. After 3 years now my OS was a bit “stuffed” and I decided to go with the flow, erased the whole HDD…
Short Note: Wikimapia…the World in a Map
We all love Wikipedia, right? And as most of you know, Wikipedia also offers the possibility to add some geospatial items to each “article”. By doing so, you…
A not complete list of WFS/WMS Catalogs
I am more the offline data user but when it comes to the question “Where can I get my data from?”, Web Feature Services (WFS) are a great…
Python and Webmaps: folium
We have seen some easy ways to create webmaps without learning JavaScript or loosing sort of control of our data in terms of using a platform like cartoDB,…
ally! What?
Okay I have to confess: I was invited to the beer friday at ally HQ in Berlin Mitte. I liked what I saw there and I also had…