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…
Tag: OpenLayers
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…
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…
Heatmap, JavaScript, Openlayers and canvas
This article is a continuation of the article “Heatmap and Interpolation: it is easy in OpenWebGIS” about creation of Heatmap and Interpolation with the help of OpenWebGIS interface.…
Spatial Big-Data: 10 stunning services
In the last month the German website Spiegel-Online showed some nice examples of big-data combined with geodata. Geodata get’s more important with every GPS-enabled device that is sold,…
Open Data in the UK
The Ordnance Survey is UK’s mapping agency and frequently releases free datasets. Their OpenData policy is quite progressive compared to Germany’s and they’ve recently published some fresh datasets…
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…
Non-standard use of Web GIS on the example of OpenWebGIS functionality
In this article we consider the use OpenWebGIS, as one of the free Web GISs for analyzing of buildings drawings, as well as mapping and measurement of small-scale…
From CSV To Heatmap With Leaflet
There are so many applications out there but they probably share one thing: export your data as a XXX-delimited table. And it’s also very easy to create a…
Top 5 QGIS Plugins
I have been using QGIS 2.2 for most of my GIS work for about 3 months now, so I have noticed that I keep on using some plugins…
The new version of qgis2leaf
The last post about our famous qgis2leaf plugin showed a glimpse of what it is capable of: exporting all your features from a QGIS project to a working…
The Spiegel Magazine and their “maps”
Today I stumbled upon a “map” on Spiegel Online ( an import news page in Germany ) which shows the spied countries of the NSA. As we already…