Map excel data for free – 5 steps to your own print- and webmap
To map excel data onto a print- or webmap is one of the most needed and chosen data preparations. Companies and scientists are often highly interested in located…
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How to create a wind map in QGIS
A few days ago I saw Franz Leonardo’s post on the ArcGIS group on facebook: He visualised wind speed and direction in ArcGIS for a wind map and…
Geocoding Addresses in ArcGIS: the other approach
Today I stumbled upon a post from the German ESRI office and their blog gisIQ and a little tutorial (English translation) on how to geocode addresses in the…
ArcGIS Open Data
For a year, ESRI’s open data initiative is online. As I’ve heard about it for the first time I was just thinking: nice move to get people into…
Short Announcement: New Catalog for Geodata
You probably know Robin Wilson‘s list of free GIS data which is a great ressource if you search for specific datasets. He also is the creator of a…
GeoTiff compression comparison
In remote sensing you often have to deal with large datsets because their spatial or temporal resolution is high. A typical Landsat 8 scene clocks in at 0.7…
SMAP – “Soil Moisture Active Passive” generates high resolution soil data
Since we are still in the International of Year of Soils , another Digital Soil Science post is ready. Some of you might already know that I’m addicted to…
Short Announcement: “Quality Check” on SRTM1
Well, I was expecting this. Damn, those new SRTM1 raster files provided via EarthExplorer by the USGS are sweet. You can download them right away just by creating…
SRTM-1 (1 Arc second) now available with large global coverage
With this post I would like to come back on a topic from September 2014. In this blog post on Digital-Geography I announced that from September 2014 until…
short announcement: tactical pilotage maps online
Watching for gifts for map lovers these days? Some guys over at reddit do so as well. Besides some interesting links (notebooks, OpenStreetMap clothings or map glasses) there…
Free Global Soil Grids at 1km resolution
I would like to introduce you the newly global coverage of soils grid at 1km ground resolution (online since August 29th 2014). The dataset is funded and provided by…
DataSF or how to do open data right
In 2010 the City and County of San Francisco’s official open data portal was launched. To me it is the ultimate experience for publishing/consuming open data: based on…