The Spiegel Magazine and their “maps”
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…
Month: October 2013
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…
Data extraction and clean up with tabula and open refine
Everyone working with data knows the problem: You found some interesting data for your journalistic project or statistics for preparing a nice map, but the data comes messy…
maps on the web: fortified regions
To echo the recent tragedies in the island of Lampedusa, I invite you to discover Philippe Rekacewicz’s map collection on the subject. This helps having a global sight…
Convert shapefiles to geoJSON via web interface
I just found a nice web interface for converting Shapefiles to geoJSON, the preferred format of vector geodata on the web. And yes, you can also convert back…
Freeware SAR processing, Part II: PolSARPro
In this post I’ll take you through some simple functions in the freeware polarimetric SAR processing package, PolSARPro. The software is distributed by the European Space Agency (ESA)…
Geocoding Google Spreadsheets: the simpler way
As we have tried to geocode addresses in Google Spreadsheets automatically we have found a solution. It turned out, that this solution is not usefull if you want…
geocoding addresses directly in LibreOffice Calc
In a recent post I’ve described a way to geocode in a Google Spreadsheet quite easily. Now let’s move a little bit away from this crazy web 2.0…
short announcement: Government shutdown affects geosciences
Thanks to a comment on our facebook page: Due to the conflict in state finances in the U,S and A gesocientists are affected: data providers like the USGS…
Freeware SAR processing (Part 1.)
One thing about working with synethic aperture radar (SAR) data is that regular image processing functions are often unsuitable. This is because most processes were design to deal…
Geocoding Google Spreadsheets
For our job site here on digital-geography I was searching for a way to auto geocode spreadsheet location cells. So I’ve found this very short announcement from Max.…
Installation of QGIS 2.0 Dufour on Windows
The installation of QGIS 2.0 is fairly easy on Ubuntu but much easier using Windows as an operating system. The installer is very handy and is provided by…