openrouteservice v4.5 is released
We’re happy to announce the release of v4.5 of openrouteservice, which exposes unique services for two of our core API’s, routing and isochrones. Now you can restrict routes…
Category: OpenStreetMap (OSM)
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:…
Supporting humanitarian logistics with OSM in a more sustainable way: New Disaster OpenRouteService for Africa, South America and Indonesia
Recently HeiGIT @ GIScience Heidelberg released a dedicated stable disaster versionof OpenRouteService (ORS) to support humanitarian logistics within specific regions of catastrophes with data from OSM in a more sustainable…
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…
GPX overview: An R function to create an overview of your .gpx files (using leaflet and RgoogleMaps)
Why GPX? For what? It's convenient to record tracks of your hiking/field trips with the GPS of your smartphone, tablet or just GPS as .gpx files. You can…
Map a whole city with OpenStreetMap
One day last month, I came back to OpenStreetMap, to see how the city of Legnano (city of 60k people – near Milan – Italy) was mapped. I knew I…
How far can you travel? Answers in QGIS with OSM route.
My latest posts on routing in QGIS were read from some guys at the University Heidelberg who provide the API for the routing. The contacted me with the…
Happy B-Day QGIS2leaf
When I started to work on QGIS2leaf about one year ago it was a nice idea and my first real dive into Python programming and using the possibilities…
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…
How to use OpenStreetMap, guides for beginners and advanced users on LearnOSM.org
OpenStreetmap is the fastest growing community mapping project of all times. Beside the “normal” map result, what you can use for your daily navigation through cities and countries…
digital’s digest – 37/2014: compare google with OSM, balloon and kite Mapping, rectify maps online, load OSM tiles in QGIS, High Road OSM filter
Digital’s digest – This new post series gives you a weekly overview about new exciting geo-, project- and gis-links. We should write about a special link? Please submit…
Exploring OSM Israel/Palestine
In this post I’ll show how to explore (or data mine) Open Street Map data and use features off-line that normally can be hard to get. Many use…