Joining Data with the Placekey QGIS Plugin
Placekey is a free address and point-of-interest (POI) matching tool that is now integrated with QGIS via the Placekey Connector Plugin. Placekey does the work of address and…
Tag: API
Comparing Isochrone APIs: an insight into different providers
In the past I was working on different plugins to connect with multiple APIs and use their isochrone endpoints in QGIS. Let me summarize some of my findings…
ArcGIS REST API and QGIS: a practical example
The ArcGIS REST API provides some interesting endpoints which can be used for free with a developer account. But how to do this in QGIS as you might…
Geocoding with Microsoft’s Azure Maps
API’s are getting more and more important as some (maybe the majority?) of GIS users don’t want to handle large datasets, don’t want to care about addresses and…
Vessel tracking the python way
Let’s assume you like cruise ships, tanker, ferries or you’re so fortunate and own a fleet of vessels cruising over the oceans. But where the heck are the…
OpenRouteService API: A Leaflet example for Isochrones
The page OpenRouteService.org is a very easy to use website which provides routing from A to B via C. It also allows to choose between different routing types…
How to start with “VANE language” API – MODIS example
If you are reading this post – you might know something about satellite imagery. This is a valuable source to power quite a lot of analytics and monitoring…
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…
Short Announcement: Mapbox Directions API with an Upgrade
We recently showed some possibilities to work with routing APIs in QGIS. Besides the Google API and the API from OpenRouteService.org Mapbox also offers some nice routing technology…
ArcGIS Open Data
For a year, ESRI’s open data initiative is online. As I’ve heard about it for the first time I was just thinking: nice move to get people into…
Short announcement: CartoDB has some suprises
Dear fellows, the blog post from CartoDB was published two days ago but it is important for every GIS/webmapping person to know: Map views are not limited anymore…
reproject and filetype change in python/pyqgis for QGIS plugin
In my current work on the qgis2leaf plugin I had the idea to place raster data on a leaflet map as an image overlay. With this in mind…