Python Script for “depth vs. data” plots
Today I want to share a Python script that I wrote to plot some lab data against the core depth it was taken from. I know its not…
QGis 2.0 – the new features
Thanks to Nathan, Anita Graser and Tim Sutton, who already wrote about new features of the new QGis-Release 2.0. The release date isn’t published yet, but we think…
Shiny @RStudio: an analytical webapp
As i was preparing myself for getting funding for the trip to the R user conference this year in Albacete, Spain I was coming across a highlightning talk…
short announce: Google Maps – the treasure map
Explore the new Google Maps with the treasure map, have a look on hand painted maps and features in Google Maps. You can enjoy streetview in a historic-style,…
short announce: Reverb @NASA the new WIST
Sorry to talk about this important tool with a little delay. As I was lecturing at the university I was using the Warehouse Inventory Search Tool (WIST) by…
Innovative SRTM Download
It’s been a couple weeks since I’ve posted here, but I just found something I wanted to pass along. If you work with geospatial data, you are probably…
cartoDB and Leaflet: consuming the table or part two
In our first post we concentrated on the creation of a table in leaflet and simple ways to administer our data and to embed the map in a…
cartoDB and Leaflet: creating the table or part one
We have already introduced cartoDB which is a platform for storing, administering and visualizing spatial data. One straight feature of cartoDB is the usage of GeoJSON for exporting…
QGis Tutorial II: how to join data with shapefiles
In this tutorial I’ll show you, how to combine text information with spatial information using the open source software QGis. You can easily download and install QGis from…
Opticks – My first step with the OpenSource ERDAS pendant
David vs. Goliath? Since years I work with QGis, now I will test the OpenSource ERDAS pendant Opticks for remote sensing issues with raster data. It would be…
CartoDB or how to administer and consume your spatial data easily
As we are running several projects besides this blog we ran across CartoDB. CartoDB is more or less a nice GUI that serves you either a table of…
Plates, a plate tectonics visualizer
The german geodetic research institute provides a visualizer to retrace the distribution and movement of our continental and oceanic plates. The tool represents the plates models: NUVEL-1, NNR-NUVEL-1,…