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…
Supporting humanitarian logistics with OSM in a more sustainable way: New Disaster OpenRouteService for Africa, South America and Indonesia
Recently HeiGIT @ GIScience Heidelberg released a dedicated stable disaster versionof OpenRouteService (ORS) to support humanitarian logistics within specific regions of catastrophes with data from OSM in a more sustainable…
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!…
How to start with “VANE language” API – MODIS example
If you are reading this post – you might know something about satellite imagery. This is a valuable source to power quite a lot of analytics and monitoring…