Do you need open data? Ask for it.
The well-known Q/A-forum StackExchange has started a new “Open Data” section. Users can ask for needed datasets and get feedback from the great StackExchange community. Especially for our…
QGIS and basemaps: QuickMapServices
To work in QGIS is very often much more convenient if you can use a basemap for your data. In the past we used and promoted OpenLayers plugin…
Map your CV
Probably everyone at least once in your life was searching for a job and had faced the challenge of creating an interesting resume. But when you start to…
Intergeo 2016 Day One: drones and drones and drones
The first day of the Intergeo 2016 and it was just mind blowing. The last years we saw a small increase in drone technology companies but especially here…
Intergeo 2016: Meet us!
For all those who are interested in the GIS, there is approaching a very big event coming to Hamburg this year – Intergeo 2016. It is the world’s leading…
QGIS 2.16 tutorial: georeferencing images
Since our last tutorial regarding georeferencing images in QGIS is 4 years old, let us have a second look at this task in the current times of QGIS…
The Coup in Turkey: the Twitter Perspective
The coup/attempt in Turkey kept me up from going to sleep after the two nice hours of “Back to the Future” on German television. So despite of the…
5 ways to get a job in the “geo-industry”
Studying geosciences, geography or geology and all related disciplines commonly ends in the question of appropriate job position. Personally I felt very lucky about my former studies in…
Pokémon Go: 3 Maps to find Pokémon easily
Until now I tried to ignore the worldwide Pokémon Go hype. But as the mobile game consists more or less of a map and some geo-related content, we…
Geocoding in GIS: ArcGIS, QGIS, Leaflet
The recent move from the Mongolian Post to use W3W as their new address system shed a new light on the question: Where are addresses located and how…
PostgreSQL and PostGIS: A brief introduction
You probably seen this already (maybe on your very own PC as well): A folder with shape files. Well we’re living in the 21st century and I do…
Accessing Landsat and Sentinel-2 on Amazon Web services
The cloud has made it easier to process large amount of data, and satellite imagery processing benefits from cloud processing too. One of the cloud services that offers…