Short Announcement: ESRI World Imagery Basemap now open for OSM Mapping
If you digitize features for OpenStreetMap you might have used Landsat data or the Bing basemap. Now we do have one other source for our armchair mapping approach:…
Tag: OpenStreetmap
How to set up a tileserver using Tilestache, Gunicorn and Nginx
Tiled map layers are an important part of the digital mapping stack, since Google and others introduced their slippy maps quite some time ago. There’s a huge ecosystem…
Import OSM Data Into A PostGIS Database (The Easy Way)
I often find myself in a situation where I want to work with large areas and datasets of OpenStreetMap data. No matter if you want to use them…
How far can you travel? Answers in QGIS with OSM route.
My latest posts on routing in QGIS were read from some guys at the University Heidelberg who provide the API for the routing. The contacted me with the…
Routing in QGIS… with OSM
Routing with Google is quite cool as the database/network is probably the best currently available. But the terms of services limit the possible usage. So what about OpenStreetMap?…
Using OpenStreetMap on your GARMIN
Since most people working with digital-data they are always interested in obtaining their own data using a Global Positioning System (GPS). Therefore I’ll give a short introduction for all…
geocoding addresses directly in LibreOffice Calc
In a recent post I’ve described a way to geocode in a Google Spreadsheet quite easily. Now let’s move a little bit away from this crazy web 2.0…
Kurznotiz: Hilfe zu OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap ist ein wunderbares Projekt, dass ähnlich dem Wikipedia-Prinzip arbeitet und eine freie Weltkarte erstellen will. Damit ist das Projekt auch schon ganz gut fortgeschritten. Wer sich über…
tutorial: visualize a line with openlayers
For an upcoming project I was curious about visualizing a line layer using OpenLayers. Therefore I digitized a way with googlemaps. After creating a kml with “my places”…