Create Bounding Boxes without Desktop GIS
Bounding boxes are crucial for a lot of geospatial projects: wether you need to limit the extent of your web mapping application or need to cut your research…
Tag: Mapping
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…
Short Announcement: Leaflet 1.0
Leaflet is one of a kind in the list of javascript webmapping libraries. It was designed with simplicity, performance and usability in mind. Unfortunately the development seemed to…
Macro-Based SE-GPS
When you’re in the field you want to collect as much data as possible using all the expensive and heavy equipment you brought with. For instance, geophysical profiling…
Geotagging Basics with ExifTool
Why Geotagging? In a recent post, I discussed the new drone that I got for the holidays and a bit about how I was using it for…
A Drone for the Holidays
So, by now some of you have opened a holiday gift and it turned out to be a drone. I was fortunate enough this year to get a 3DR IRIS+…
geo.admin.ch: bringing Swiss geodata potential to life
A priorized project of eGovernment Switzerland Usage and exchange of geodata is fostered by geo.admin.ch in a significant way. The Federal geoportal is operated by the Federal Office…
digital’s digest – 37/2014: compare google with OSM, balloon and kite Mapping, rectify maps online, load OSM tiles in QGIS, High Road OSM filter
Digital’s digest – This new post series gives you a weekly overview about new exciting geo-, project- and gis-links. We should write about a special link? Please submit…
D3.js mapping tutorial 1: set up an initial webmap
This is the first digital-geography.com tutorial for setting up an initial webmap with D3.js-JavaScript library by Mike Bostock.
Maps for our robots
I have often wondered what could be the purpose of these mapping 3D models more and more accurate for major cities of the world (eg, Monaco, Geneva or Dubai).…
Rapa Iti, the treasure Island (for a story teller)
Everyone knows the island of Rapa Nui (the “big”) also named Easter Island, but very few know the island of Rapa Iti (the “small”). This island worthy of inclusion in…
D3 Mapping Basics
Within this, 2nd basic D3 tutorial, I will show you how to combine D3 with Leaflet whereby each library can demonstrate its vantages! These will be the main…