Map Challenge – Day 2 (lines): Straightening the A2
Day 2 of the 30daymapchallenge focused on cleaning and preparing the A2 motorway data before creating a straightened schematic line. Raw geospatial data is rarely perfect, and getting…
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🗺️ Turning a Simple Excel Table into a Map — My #30DayMapChallenge Story
For this year’s #30DayMapChallenge day one points, I wanted to do something lightweight:just take one of those never-ending Excel tables that everyone in GIS seems to have lying…
Create your own vector basemaps the easy way
Basemaps are a web cartographers best friend, aren’t they. There are plenty of them online, ready to be embedded in your upcoming nice web map application. In this…
How to use PyQGIS as standalone script on Ubuntu
Today I wanted to hack together a standalone script using PyQGIS, the QGIS Python bindings, to write a small prototype. I hadn’t written such a standalone script yet,…
How to set up a tileserver using Tilestache, Gunicorn and Nginx
Tiled map layers are an important part of the digital mapping stack, since Google and others introduced their slippy maps quite some time ago. There’s a huge ecosystem…
JuxtaposeJS and the Death (and Re-Birth) of Bogoslof Island
This post is just a quick update on a unique event unfolding in my home state of Alaska and a cool new tool to help you post image…
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…
From Cloud to GIS: Getting Weather Data.
Introduction In this post we are going to look at how to get weather forecast data and display it as a layer in a desktop geographical information system…
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…
CSV to HTML 101 webmap
Alright, away from python scripting, I want to share a small tool CSV to HTML 101 with you, guys. I used VB.NET to develop it in order to help…
The Geography of Tweets: Reading Tweets with QGIS
Anita showed some nice examples of tweets in QGIS in 2012. Since then it seemed to be quiet about the twitter-content in QGIS. Yet tweets can be an…
Reading stuff the Spritz way
This is truly not a GIS oriented post but when it comes to science or studying you probably faced a big stack of books or a more or…