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…
Category: Webmapping
qgis2web in the wild
There are plenty of webmapping services out there. The best known might be mapbox, carto, arcgis online, google maps. But what they all share: they do not come…
QGIS2web with interactive filters
It’s been a while, since I last developed things for qgis2web. To be honest: I lost focus on the whole project after we decided to merge qgis2leaf with…
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…
Short Announcement: kepler.gl is available now – free and open
Back in 2016 Uber surpised the geo market with its solution “deck.gl“, a “predecessor” of kepler.gl: WebGL2 powered geospatial visualization layers The visuals were quite stunning: You can…
Short Announcement: OpenWhateverMap
Choosing a basemap for your cool web map is always crucial for the style and perception of your map. A colorful basemap like watercolor might be stunning but…
ArcGIS Online (AGOL) for free: The Developer Way
You might have heard of ArcGIS Online (AGOL) already: ArcGIS Online is a complete, cloud-based mapping platform. Make and share beautiful maps, and do everything in between. It’s…
OpenRouteService API: A Leaflet example for Isochrones
The page OpenRouteService.org is a very easy to use website which provides routing from A to B via C. It also allows to choose between different routing types…
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:…
A Digital Earth: the Potential of Data Brokers
Introduction In my previous two posts I introduced the Cloud based data broker technology ERDDAP and demonstrated how one can use it to obtain geo-spatial scientific environmental data:…
Short Announcement: New Sentinel Cloudless Atlas
Mapbox created a cloudless Landsat map in 2013. That was a huge step for all the webmapping enthusiasts as we got a composit image of the world with…
Maps Marker – WordPress Map Plugin
What if you want to build your own webmap on your WordPress blog without any knowledge about javaScript, frontend web development and geojsons? You can use a plugin!…