A Digital Earth: the Potential of Data Brokers
Introduction In my previous two posts I introduced the Cloud based data broker technology ERDDAP and demonstrated how one can use it to obtain geo-spatial scientific environmental data:…
Category: Geodatabase
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…
How to organize geodata storage?
In the past I’ve learned one thing: the only chance to do efficient geodata-projects is to have a clean data structure.
In this post I’ll show you some tools and share my thoughts about organizing (geo)data to have more efficient project-workflows. After that I would be very interested in your solutions and approaches to do smart data-projects.
geo.admin.ch: bringing Swiss geodata potential to life
A priorized project of eGovernment Switzerland Usage and exchange of geodata is fostered by geo.admin.ch in a significant way. The Federal geoportal is operated by the Federal Office…
HeidiSQL vs. pgAdmin III – a small speed-test
HeidiSQL, a free database-client, now supports PostgreSQL/PostGIS in the newest nightly builds. Using HeidiSQL with MySQL was always a pleasure and I often had the feeling that the…
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…
Geodatabases: a little insight
Most GIS-users I know don’t use Geodatabases. But as your project may grow, participation and co-working gets more and more usual in your projects and you would like…
Geodatabases
In my years at the university i was playing around with a lot of data. These were sorted “somehow” and totally distributed. after a short while i have…