Peakfinder – identify the hills around you
Peakfinder.org is a fascinating website. It’s not new, but I just came across it few days ago by a recommendation of @callanbentley. It appears very simple, very clever and…
Peakfinder.org is a fascinating website. It’s not new, but I just came across it few days ago by a recommendation of @callanbentley. It appears very simple, very clever and…
We love leaflet. In fact we have done some great projects with this nice little piece of code like our job-map. As I’ve checked the news from leaflet:…
Dear folks, most of you probably know how to map things using software on your pc. Some of you might also know cartoDB. We like their service as…
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…
A lot of articles here at Digital Geography deal with maps and projections. You may have wondered how wrong the different map projections are or let’s say, what…
I have to admit that I don’t know since when the Zugradar (train radar) of the Deutsche Bahn (DB) is online, but I found it per accident and…
As Daniel already wrote: There is an awesome tool available online. With geojson.io you will be able to add, edit and remove spatial data used maybe in webmapping…
The leaflet API is very simple and tries to deliver best performance and style for commonly used features like tilelayers, points and lines and markers in general. So…
When Mike Bostock published his (re-) implementation and demonstration of Visvalingams algorithm for line simplification he attracted considerable attention on that. What is a little bit strange in…
Since a while I am programming with the JavaScript library D3.js … and … I am addicted to it! As I would like to present some tutorials on…
The new JSON Format GeoJSON allows you to easily embed geographical features in your leaflet webmap. Additionally you can create it very easily in the open source GIS…
In some countries, such as the USA and Spain, there is a very nice law that makes life easy for geoscientists. This law guarantees free access to a…