Short Announcement: OpenWhateverMap
Choosing a basemap for your cool web map is always crucial for the style and perception of your map. A colorful basemap like watercolor might be stunning but…
Tag: webmapping
ArcGIS Online (AGOL) for free: The Developer Way
You might have heard of ArcGIS Online (AGOL) already: ArcGIS Online is a complete, cloud-based mapping platform. Make and share beautiful maps, and do everything in between. It’s…
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…
Isochrones in Webmaps: Three Approaches for Leaflet
As we are thinking more or less specially I always ask myself: where can I be in the next 30 minutes? Most of current webmaps out there are…
A not complete list of WFS/WMS Catalogs
I am more the offline data user but when it comes to the question “Where can I get my data from?”, Web Feature Services (WFS) are a great…
Webmaps with R: the leaflet package for R
Some months ago I published qgis2leaf which enables a QGIS user to publish a webmap the easy way. It was integrated into qgis2web which offers a leaflet and…
Awesome map style
Are you back from holiday? Maybe you switched from Casale Monferrato, Piedmont and have used the map of Monferrato Landscapes. If you were lucky, you see a new…
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…
Short announcement: CartoDB has some suprises
Dear fellows, the blog post from CartoDB was published two days ago but it is important for every GIS/webmapping person to know: Map views are not limited anymore…
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.
Analog Geography – German soil of the year 2014 is the vineyard soil
Sometimes you need to replace bits and bytes with dirt and soils, and today’s news are really pushing me to leave the desk and to go for a…