The new flickr2qgis plugin for QGIS
In the last week I saw a post on the German ESRI page called GIS-IQ which featured a new widget for ArcGIS which needs you to have the…
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.
Job Page – reloaded
Since 3 years digital-geography.com provides a nice page for your job search in the fields of GIS and Geosciences. As most of our visitors are young professionals, which…
Beautiful Watershed Polygons in QGIS
As the title sugests I am showing you, how to create beautiful watershed polygons. We will start with some raster files and use a nice GRASS tool for…
How a QGIS plugin saved my day: autotrace
One of my favourite horror exercises for students was the digitization of geological maps. Everyone hated it as you need to take of snapping options, correct attributes, and…
EGEA: Who are we and what do we do?
We are EGEAns and part of the European Geography Association for students and young Geographers (or in short EGEA), a network to create, explore and share different approaches…
5 reasons why I blog
5 reasons why I blog, and why shall you. About 4 years ago I started blogging and building a website/blog with content about GIS, geodata and programming. As…
Short Announcement: my top 5 features of QGIS 2.12
QGIS is under steady development and with the new release QGIS 2.12 we get some interesting and also visible changes in QGIS. What are the best improvements? Check…
Comparing ALOS Global Digital Surface Model “ALOS World 3D – 30m” with SRTM 1
The last post with the focus on recent data for your work when it comes to DSMs or DEMs was a bit early honestly. I was working with…
Short Announcement: SRTM 1 Data Worldwide
The digital elevation dataset resulting from the SRT Mission in the year 2000 is probably the most widely used digital elevation dataset in the world. It was first…
Show your Photos in QGIS and ArcGIS: a small example
Hi guys. Once again I found an interesting question in our Geoscientists group on facebook. One user wanted to show her photos in QGIS as she is it…
Berlin is the city for the geo-industry…
Berlin is the place to be for the geo-industry… Visiting the INTERGEO 2015 in Stuttgart I came to one conclusion: Berlin is the place to be. Forget about…
Geo Business and Social Media: Blogs, Twitter and Facebook
This year I visited the Intergeo 2015 not without reason. I was invited at the booth of the German GeoBusiness Commission for an interview. The interplay of geobusiness…