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…
Service Areas, Traffic and QGIS
Our author Riccardo recently published an article on GeoNet where he described the traffic aware analysis of service areas (isochrones) in ArcGIS Pro with the analytical support of…
Short Announcement: Your Input is Needed… A Readers Survey
We are always looking for new ideas, tutorials, work flows, solutions. Unfortunately we were not able to write so much in the past for our beloved blog Digital-Geography.com.…
Create Bounding Boxes without Desktop GIS
Bounding boxes are crucial for a lot of geospatial projects: wether you need to limit the extent of your web mapping application or need to cut your research…
Short Announcement: Retro View of Mankind’s Habitat / Pastvu.com
Once in past there was a project called Panoramio were you uploaded your photos of landscapes or places around the world and it was explorable via a map.…
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…
Donut Polygons in QGIS, ArcMap, ArcGIS Pro and geoJSON
Donut Polygons were the nightmare in first GIS courses. At the very moment I can’t remember why but the concept of an inner and an outer part makes…
Short Announcement: PlayMapsCube using Three.JS
We all played around with this little thing: wood labyrinths with one or many little balls called a “Ball-in-a-maze puzzle”. The goal was to find a path through…
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…