short announcement: geological maps for Spain
Christoph already wrote an article about “How to find geospatial data for Spain” and also mentioned the IGME page but thanks to Mr. Nölte from the Dechenhöhle in…
Month: July 2013
Rapa Iti, the treasure Island (for a story teller)
Everyone knows the island of Rapa Nui (the “big”) also named Easter Island, but very few know the island of Rapa Iti (the “small”). This island worthy of inclusion in…
Online GeoJSON Editor
The web is built upon a small set of languages that are present everywhere. Besides HTML, Javascript is the most common technology around here. So it is not…
QGIS plugins: SEXTANTE
SEXTANTE by Victor Olaya is a powerful plugin that bundles many methods and applications from QGIS in one place and provides a GUI for your processing work flow…
how to create clustered points in leaflet
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…
short announcement: incredible webmap service online
Thanks to the Twitterline of @directionsmag I’ve seen this new beautiful tiled WMS: OSM roads (new)
XML, KML and ENVI 5.1
At the moment I am beta testing ENVI 5.1 and have been working with the new Region of Interest (ROI) tool. The new tool looks good with some…
short announcement: learn to create maps online
This week a new 5 weeks course will start at coursera. Coursera is an online learning platform that enables people from all around the world to learn and…
What’s new in ArcGIS 10.2
One hot topic on this year User Conference from ESRI in San Diego was the upcomming release of 10.2: Tweets über “#arcgis #esriuc” Until now the ESRI ArcGIS…
What is the synthetic aperture in “Synthetic Aperture Radar” (SAR)?
Talking to a colleague recently about monitoring changes to the magrove forest of the Rufiji Delta in tanzania, he commented on the relative scarcity of satellite data over…
Google Earth Engine – free spatial data- and analyse-workspace
Google’s Earth Engine offers spatial researcher-tools in combination with their huge amount of collected satellite data. In fact you have the possibility to access e.g. 40 years of…
QGIS Tutorial III: from data to map – visualize data in a map
In our last session we started with some topographic “pre”-map as we prepared everything to create a printable map with QGIS which shows heights in a special area.…