OpenStreetmap is the fastest growing community mapping project of all times. Beside the “normal” map result, what you can use for your daily navigation through cities and countries…
“A GISP is a certified geographic information systems (GIS) professional who has met the minimum standards for ethical conduct and professional practice as established by the GIS Certification…
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…
A short time of my day I am watching twitter like others are zapping the TV. A short time ago, there was this list out of nowhere: “the…
The time when I studied Geography and Mathematics is long ago. So I chose Cartography as one major part of my studies and learned to draw circles and…
Once in 2008 I was searching for a reliable and powerful notebook for my work at the University and for my field-campaigns in Central Mongolia. So my thaughts…
The term GIS is very closely associated with the layer concept, as a standard GIS will allow you to work in various levels and their proper representation. When…
in the next weeks I will produce a new series of how-to videos. They will cover the range of methods in GIS using open source GIS. As I…
Most of my students asked me: “why do we need this or that!?”. In fact: for topologies I failed in answering often. One possibility of usage is shown…
We will go straight to the main part of the problem:how to communicate, where you are. Sometimes it is as easy as “one, two, three” but most likely…