Create custom markers with R for your webmap
When it comes to webmapping there are thousands of possible markers you can choose from but when it comes to markers depending on the data, which is inside…
Category: Webmapping
geo.admin.ch: bringing Swiss geodata potential to life
A priorized project of eGovernment Switzerland Usage and exchange of geodata is fostered by geo.admin.ch in a significant way. The Federal geoportal is operated by the Federal Office…
Short announcement: CartoDB has some suprises
Dear fellows, the blog post from CartoDB was published two days ago but it is important for every GIS/webmapping person to know: Map views are not limited anymore…
Non-standard use of Web GIS on the example of OpenWebGIS functionality
In this article we consider the use OpenWebGIS, as one of the free Web GISs for analyzing of buildings drawings, as well as mapping and measurement of small-scale…
Maptime Berlin: what was/what will be
In the middle of September the first Maptime Berlin took place. I was totally amazed to see so many people sitting there, being interested in mapping, opensource, cartography…
Overview: Newest developments from ESRI
At this years 11th geoforum of central Germany ESRI showed some new developments in their ArcGIS online portfolio. Those were published 23rd of September. Let me please introduce…
Interactive Space Image Map of ISS-Pictures
The Sojus TMA-13M started on May 28th 2014 from Baikonur to bring the German Alex Gerst, the Russian Maxim Surajew and the American Reid Wiseman to the ISS…
digital’s digest – 37/2014: compare google with OSM, balloon and kite Mapping, rectify maps online, load OSM tiles in QGIS, High Road OSM filter
Digital’s digest – This new post series gives you a weekly overview about new exciting geo-, project- and gis-links. We should write about a special link? Please submit…
The information tools (data base and GIS) to help paleontologists in their scientific researches
In modern scientific researches of biological direction the geographic information systems (GIS) are increasingly used. For example, GIS technology is successfully applied in the study of patterns of…
digital’s digest – 36/2014: download tiles, big maps from tiles, osm city plan, fictional maps and tiled pictures
digital’s digest – what’s this? Every week I visit a lot of webpages related to geographic, mapping and other “Digital-Geography.com”-stuff. I’m afraid I cannot write full-size articles about…
D3.js mapping tutorial 1: set up an initial webmap
This is the first digital-geography.com tutorial for setting up an initial webmap with D3.js-JavaScript library by Mike Bostock.
From CSV To Heatmap With Leaflet
There are so many applications out there but they probably share one thing: export your data as a XXX-delimited table. And it’s also very easy to create a…