TimeScale Creator – stratigraphic tables made easy!
Recently I found a nice tool that generates stratigraphic tables (geology) for free. TimeScale Creator is Java-based (works with Win, Linux and MacOS) and allows you to compose…
EGEA: Who are we and what do we do?
We are EGEAns and part of the European Geography Association for students and young Geographers (or in short EGEA), a network to create, explore and share different approaches…
5 reasons why I blog
5 reasons why I blog, and why shall you. About 4 years ago I started blogging and building a website/blog with content about GIS, geodata and programming. As…
Geospatial World: geospatial industry magazine for free
The geospatial media industry is really negligible. Some blogs here, some magazines there. Luckily their authors are very hard-working. This article will introduce a magazine called “Geospatial World”…
Short Announcement: my top 5 features of QGIS 2.12
QGIS is under steady development and with the new release QGIS 2.12 we get some interesting and also visible changes in QGIS. What are the best improvements? Check…
The QGIS survey needs input!
The free and open source gis QGIS started an user survey on its online webpage. The project needs your input to get the best necessary community information for…
Adding projection data to ENVI headers (GIMMS 3g example)
Once in a while you may need to take an unprojected file and add coordinate parameters to the header. Assuming you use ENVI, the hard way is to…
GIS with javascript – tutorial part 1
An article from Anders. Geodata in javascript GeoJSON is the standard way of storing geodata in JSON, javascripts native data format. The wikipedia article has very clear and…
Comparing ALOS Global Digital Surface Model “ALOS World 3D – 30m” with SRTM 1
The last post with the focus on recent data for your work when it comes to DSMs or DEMs was a bit early honestly. I was working with…
Short Announcement: SRTM 1 Data Worldwide
The digital elevation dataset resulting from the SRT Mission in the year 2000 is probably the most widely used digital elevation dataset in the world. It was first…
What is better: a map or a picture?
I was reading an article entitled “China, the megalopolis of 110 million inhabitants that impresses the world” on a popular online journal (see article) and after a dozen…
Show your Photos in QGIS and ArcGIS: a small example
Hi guys. Once again I found an interesting question in our Geoscientists group on facebook. One user wanted to show her photos in QGIS as she is it…