Isochrones in Webmaps: Three Approaches for Leaflet
As we are thinking more or less specially I always ask myself: where can I be in the next 30 minutes? Most of current webmaps out there are…
Some ways to produce topographic swath profiles
For a geomorphological study that I am working on I want to produce topographic swath profiles across a mountain range, that is, I want the average elevation along…
Observing deforestation with Sentinel-1
While preparing for an upcoming presentation at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) I came across a topic that I thought might make an interesting blog…
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…