Proud of the Linux world
Sometimes I have something to tell, but also need to realize that it is not so easy to explain. How many times have you heard of Linux, or…
ERDDAP: Diving into a Data Ocean
Data Lakes has become a popular term in the Big Data community. It’s used to refer to a large storage repository and processing engine. However there is now…
Python and Webmaps: folium
We have seen some easy ways to create webmaps without learning JavaScript or loosing sort of control of our data in terms of using a platform like cartoDB,…
Downloading Sentinel satellite imagery
Sentinel is the buzzword for a series of Earth observation missions like Sentinel-1 (Land and Ocean monitoring,launched in April 2014), Sentinel-2 (land monitoring, launched in June 2015) and…
Evolving Geographic Information System: OpenWebGIS plans & its crowdfunding campaign
Perhaps you have already used in your work OpenWebGIS or just have seen it or read about it. Due to this system exists since 2014. But we will…
ally! What?
Okay I have to confess: I was invited to the beer friday at ally HQ in Berlin Mitte. I liked what I saw there and I also had…
The new flickr2qgis plugin for QGIS
In the last week I saw a post on the German ESRI page called GIS-IQ which featured a new widget for ArcGIS which needs you to have the…
Job Page – reloaded
Since 3 years digital-geography.com provides a nice page for your job search in the fields of GIS and Geosciences. As most of our visitors are young professionals, which…
Beautiful Watershed Polygons in QGIS
As the title sugests I am showing you, how to create beautiful watershed polygons. We will start with some raster files and use a nice GRASS tool for…
HERE maps: Free navigation apps for web and smartphones
Navigating from a to b is really easy today. Once you have a power connector in your car (bike, bicycle, scooter or whatever) and a mounting point, smartphones…
How a QGIS plugin saved my day: autotrace
One of my favourite horror exercises for students was the digitization of geological maps. Everyone hated it as you need to take of snapping options, correct attributes, and…
Combinig QGIS and leaflet to visualize an area with pictures
The goal of this post is to explain, based on practical examples from my professional activities, how I use QGIS, its plugin photo2Shape and the processing toolbox, together…