GISgirls – where are the women? 4 theses
Typically GIS and geodata nerds are male. Anyhow, 99.9 % of our contacts, freelancer sign ups, comment writers here on the blog are boys. But where are the…
Map a whole city with OpenStreetMap
One day last month, I came back to OpenStreetMap, to see how the city of Legnano (city of 60k people – near Milan – Italy) was mapped. I knew I…
Create Maps Online: A comparison of 6 webmap providers
Working with a desktop GIS might be a good choice for geodata-experts, GIS-people in general and everyone who is inside the fields of geosciences. If you don’t want…
Short Announcement: Leaflet 1.0
Leaflet is one of a kind in the list of javascript webmapping libraries. It was designed with simplicity, performance and usability in mind. Unfortunately the development seemed to…
Spatial Big-Data: 10 stunning services
In the last month the German website Spiegel-Online showed some nice examples of big-data combined with geodata. Geodata get’s more important with every GPS-enabled device that is sold,…
Using Jupyter for data analysis
Data analysis in the modern-day computing industry is of great essence as the world tries to understand the data that has been accumulated in many systems across the…
Short Announcement: Landsat 8 Data Users Handbook
Landsat 8 is the successful successor of Landsat 5/ Landsat 7. It was launched on February 11, 2013. Since then we saw a major increase in possibilities of getting…
Attention: QGIS 2.10 is coming!
Four months ago QGIS 2.8 was released. The Long Term Release will be suppported for the next 2 years. Besides this LTR version QGIS is updated in a…
First images from recently launched Sentinel 2 satellite
The earth observation satellite Sentinel-2 with Sentinel-2A and Sentinel 2B was launched on June 23rd 2015 from space centre Kourou in French Guiana. The mission is part of…
Pros and Cons of using Smartphone as a GPS Tool
In a statistical report entitled US Smartphone Use in 2015, it revealed that some 88 percent of American smartphone owners use their handset as a map or navigation…
How far can you travel? Answers in QGIS with OSM route.
My latest posts on routing in QGIS were read from some guys at the University Heidelberg who provide the API for the routing. The contacted me with the…
Routing in QGIS… with OSM
Routing with Google is quite cool as the database/network is probably the best currently available. But the terms of services limit the possible usage. So what about OpenStreetMap?…