Short Announcement: new MOOC on GeoInt!
Today I received an interesting E-mail from Pennstate University which pointed towards an upcoming MOOC with a more or less special focus: Geospatial Intelligence. The title is Geospatial…
Tag: data
DataSF or how to do open data right
In 2010 the City and County of San Francisco’s official open data portal was launched. To me it is the ultimate experience for publishing/consuming open data: based on…
DEM comparison: SRTM 3 vs. ASTER GDEM v2
Let’s get ready to rumble! No, just kidding. We are all excited about the recent message from the white house: SRTM “1” (1 equals 1 arcsecond, whereas 3…
Advanced access to free climate data for Germany of the Climate Data Center
Since July 1st 2014, the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) eased restrictions for the usage of climate data and provides users with a big dataset of free climate data for…
short announcement: Berlin geodata downloadable…
I don’t know what’s wrong with the governmental insitutions in Germany/Berlin: They have this law, that all the geodata are somehow under an open license but to me…
Mapshaper.org – easy editing polygon and polyline datasets for mapping purposes
Mapshaper by mbloch is one of my favourite “swiss army knife”-tools if you need fast data reduction and topology first aid in polygon data handling. There a two…
Geoscience Australia – geodata collection via WMS, WFS and WCS
The Australian government now provides a bunch of commercial and free geodata on their Australia Geoscience-Portal. Like the well known U.S. data provider Earth-Explorer, you can do a product…
INSPIRE conference wants your ideas and works
Aalborg in Denmark will be a place to be in the middle of June as INSPIRE rocks the city. The initiative “Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European…
Earth in near real time: new Earth monitoring approaches
Since the start of Google Earth in 2001 (it was re-released in 2005 after Google acquired it from Keyhole, Inc ) remote sensing images made their way into…
Analog Geography – German soil of the year 2014 is the vineyard soil
Sometimes you need to replace bits and bytes with dirt and soils, and today’s news are really pushing me to leave the desk and to go for a…
georeferencing images in QGIS using OSM data: how to distort the City
You probably already referenced maps with written coordinates but using photos or images is a little different as you need some characteristic points so you can control the…
Data extraction and clean up with tabula and open refine
Everyone working with data knows the problem: You found some interesting data for your journalistic project or statistics for preparing a nice map, but the data comes messy…