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…
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2013 in maps: a short review
Thanks to Christoph, he also runs a specific blog on paleoseismicity, who send me the link, I want to share the gizmodo list of best maps 2013 with…
Digital Geography 2.0: a raffle
Digital Geography is online since august 2012. We had an extremely successful year since then. As we are planning to move to a new server with a new…
Labels in QGIS: selective labelling
Because the function „label selected features only“ does not exist anymore in QGIS, a workaround should just label specific features of the shapefile without exporting a new one.…
Maps in Games: Battlefield 4 und Mapbox
Wer kennt das nicht: nach stressigen Arbeitstagen einfach mal abschalten und sich der elektronischen Unterhaltungsindustrie hingeben. Nichtsahnend startete ich gestern, pünktlich zum Launch, den neuen Actiontitel “Battlefield 4”…
short announcement: Government shutdown affects geosciences
Thanks to a comment on our facebook page: Due to the conflict in state finances in the U,S and A gesocientists are affected: data providers like the USGS…
short announcement: area51 and geosciences
Most of our readers probably came along the sites of stackexchange or stackoverflow. But most questions regarding geosciences are discussed in local forums or with friends but not…
Piksi or how to be exact with low costs
So many of you probably know that there are some pretty amazing social crowdfunding projects hosted on kickstarter, startnext or indiegogo and we also started one campaign that…
Rapa Iti, the treasure Island (for a story teller)
Everyone knows the island of Rapa Nui (the “big”) also named Easter Island, but very few know the island of Rapa Iti (the “small”). This island worthy of inclusion in…
Digital Geomorphology
Maps are still the main technique to show geomorphological surfaces on different spatial scales. Step by step new technologies try to improve this approach. In this german article…
startnext: QGIS video tutor
QGIS needs video tutorials to enable users to solve their problems with open source GIS. Please support my project qgis video tutor on startnext!
Springerlink Downloader for Springer Books
Springer and the sword of VPN Many universities own licenses to get access to the content of scientific oriented publishers. Using a VPN-tunnel every enrolled student every student…