Short Announcement: PlayMapsCube using Three.JS
We all played around with this little thing: wood labyrinths with one or many little balls called a “Ball-in-a-maze puzzle”. The goal was to find a path through…
Category: QGIS
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…
ALOS World 3D V1.1 vs. SRTM1
Some days ago a new version of the ALOS 30m DEM was released: Void pixels due to clouds and snow pixels within 60 deg. of north and south…
Short Announcement: QGIS 3.0 is on its way
QGIS 3.0 is the next big release in terms of features and tools. As it is stated in this e-mail chain we could expect this new major release…
Map your family tree with Gramps and QGIS – how to digitize and visualize genealogy data
As I realized that I have a really huge family I was keen to digitize the current family tree and get into contact to my relatives. For getting…
Some ways to produce topographic swath profiles
For a geomorphological study that I am working on I want to produce topographic swath profiles across a mountain range, that is, I want the average elevation along…
QGIS and basemaps: QuickMapServices
To work in QGIS is very often much more convenient if you can use a basemap for your data. In the past we used and promoted OpenLayers plugin…
Map your CV
Probably everyone at least once in your life was searching for a job and had faced the challenge of creating an interesting resume. But when you start to…
QGIS 2.16 tutorial: georeferencing images
Since our last tutorial regarding georeferencing images in QGIS is 4 years old, let us have a second look at this task in the current times of QGIS…
Geocoding in GIS: ArcGIS, QGIS, Leaflet
The recent move from the Mongolian Post to use W3W as their new address system shed a new light on the question: Where are addresses located and how…
PostgreSQL and PostGIS: A brief introduction
You probably seen this already (maybe on your very own PC as well): A folder with shape files. Well we’re living in the 21st century and I do…
Using Sentinel-2 for crop monitoring
Sentinel-2 is the optical satellite of the Copernicus programme. It can be compared to Landsat, although it has a better resolution, of 10 to 20 meters. We’ll be…