cartoDB and Leaflet: creating the table or part one
We have already introduced cartoDB which is a platform for storing, administering and visualizing spatial data. One straight feature of cartoDB is the usage of GeoJSON for exporting…
Month: February 2013
QGis Tutorial II: how to join data with shapefiles
In this tutorial I’ll show you, how to combine text information with spatial information using the open source software QGis. You can easily download and install QGis from…
Opticks – My first step with the OpenSource ERDAS pendant
David vs. Goliath? Since years I work with QGis, now I will test the OpenSource ERDAS pendant Opticks for remote sensing issues with raster data. It would be…
CartoDB or how to administer and consume your spatial data easily
As we are running several projects besides this blog we ran across CartoDB. CartoDB is more or less a nice GUI that serves you either a table of…
Plates, a plate tectonics visualizer
The german geodetic research institute provides a visualizer to retrace the distribution and movement of our continental and oceanic plates. The tool represents the plates models: NUVEL-1, NNR-NUVEL-1,…
Install stable version of QGIS on Ubuntu
When I was starting with Ubuntu I was struggling with getting QGIS to run on Ubuntu. Actually it is not a big deal despite of adding a repository…
Free maps from the Perry-Castañeda library map collection
The digital map collection of the Perry-Castañeda library (University Texas) is a free map download source. For many countries you can get map data right online. Besides current…
QGIS Plugin – Profile Tool
Previous Posts in this series QGIS Plugin – RasterCalc QGIS Plugin – OpenLayers So, this will be a pretty quick post on one of my most used…