Run GIS functions directly in Python with GeoPandas
GeoPandas, once installed, supports you with a handfull of GIS functions in your Python notebooks and will leverage your work with geospatial data. But to be honest: this…
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Geocoding with Microsoft’s Azure Maps
API’s are getting more and more important as some (maybe the majority?) of GIS users don’t want to handle large datasets, don’t want to care about addresses and…
Short Note: CodingBat or Python, stupid!
Currently I am trying to improve my coding skills in Python. Of course you can read some books, attend some Udemy course but in the end it boils…
Vessel tracking the python way
Let’s assume you like cruise ships, tanker, ferries or you’re so fortunate and own a fleet of vessels cruising over the oceans. But where the heck are the…
Query OpenStreetMap in ArcGIS: OSMQuery
QUickOSM is my weapon of choice when it comes to downloading data from OSM in QGIS. The tool offers an easy way to access tag/key combinations with a…
Service Areas, Traffic and QGIS
Our author Riccardo recently published an article on GeoNet where he described the traffic aware analysis of service areas (isochrones) in ArcGIS Pro with the analytical support of…
Web Geological Modeling in 3D with Geomodelr. View what’s changed with a new tutorial.
Geomodelr is the first web geological modeling platform. It helps you to model complex geological settings with simple operations. Additionally, It helps people to share and reuse geological models. Geomodelr…
Observing deforestation with Sentinel-1
While preparing for an upcoming presentation at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) I came across a topic that I thought might make an interesting blog…
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,…
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…
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…
Routing in QGIS… with OSM
Routing with Google is quite cool as the database/network is probably the best currently available. But the terms of services limit the possible usage. So what about OpenStreetMap?…