How to build your own QGIS plugin
Since I’ve created the QGIS plugin qgis2leaf I was surprised how easy it is to create a plugin for QGIS. In this post I would like to show…
Tag: video
Skybox and UrtheCast: earthstreams and the question of usage
Do you remember the great game SimCity 2000? When you see the new video from SkyBox Imaging you will see some parallels.
short announcement: new R learning material
Coursera, hail to Coursera. Despite the uprising criticism on MOOCs and their footprint in the educational landscape at universities Coursera created an interesting R learning course. It is…
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…
Anaconda: a interesting Python distribution
When working with GIS and statistical data there is an emerging need to know some scripting language. Python is one of the most widely used. It is not…
startnext: QGIS video tutor
QGIS needs video tutorials to enable users to solve their problems with open source GIS. Please support my project qgis video tutor on startnext!
ArcGIS tutorial 1: how to georeference a map
ArcGIS is a geographic-information-system (GIS) developed by ESRI. Being widely used and the sheer amount of functions and add-ons are maybe the important causes for being a big-player…
image georeferenciation using ArcGIS 10
Due to a recent article at our German partner geo-works.de I would like to share my two video tutorials for doing this. The first concentrates on the so…
“Python” or the agony of choice
The work as a geographer with statistical and remote-sensing related focus arise the necessity of mastering a programming language sooner or later. Lets choose: C, C + +,…
getting to know open source GIS
in the next weeks I will produce a new series of how-to videos. They will cover the range of methods in GIS using open source GIS. As I…
Geodatabases
In my years at the university i was playing around with a lot of data. These were sorted “somehow” and totally distributed. after a short while i have…
Coordinate Systems and “on the fly projection”
Most of you readers has probably come to a point where you asked yourself “WTF, what is this?”. And doing so by thinking and carrying about projections is…