Create your own vector basemaps the easy way
Basemaps are a web cartographers best friend, aren’t they. There are plenty of them online, ready to be embedded in your upcoming nice web map application. In this…
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qgis2web in the wild
There are plenty of webmapping services out there. The best known might be mapbox, carto, arcgis online, google maps. But what they all share: they do not come…
QGIS2web with interactive filters
It’s been a while, since I last developed things for qgis2web. To be honest: I lost focus on the whole project after we decided to merge qgis2leaf with…
Short Announcement: OpenWhateverMap
Choosing a basemap for your cool web map is always crucial for the style and perception of your map. A colorful basemap like watercolor might be stunning but…
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…
NASA’s Black Marble 2016 or Syrian Dark Years
About four years ago, Daniel wrote a short article on how to publish a GeoTiff as maptiles and how to use this in a leaflet map. I would…
Working with Clusters in Leaflet: Increasing Useability
In one of our latest projects we faced a sad truth: geocoding results often sucks and points are not scattered enough but concentrate on distinct locations and clusters…
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…
Geocoding in GIS: ArcGIS, QGIS, Leaflet
The recent move from the Mongolian Post to use W3W as their new address system shed a new light on the question: Where are addresses located and how…
Filter Leaflet Maps with a Slider
If you create maps you always need to ask yourself: how can I make it as easy as possible to read and still have anything I need in…
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,…
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…