How to start with “VANE language” API – MODIS example
If you are reading this post – you might know something about satellite imagery. This is a valuable source to power quite a lot of analytics and monitoring…
Category: Webmapping
How to set up a tileserver using Tilestache, Gunicorn and Nginx
Tiled map layers are an important part of the digital mapping stack, since Google and others introduced their slippy maps quite some time ago. There’s a huge ecosystem…
NASA’s Black Marble 2016 or Syrian Dark Years
About four years ago, Daniel wrote a short article on how to publish a GeoTiff as maptiles and how to use this in a leaflet map. I would…
Custom Google Maps style – How to design your own Google Maps style?
Google Maps is one of the most popular web-based map services. If you want to adjust its style you can easily define a custom style sheet and embed…
JuxtaposeJS and the Death (and Re-Birth) of Bogoslof Island
This post is just a quick update on a unique event unfolding in my home state of Alaska and a cool new tool to help you post image…
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…
The Coup in Turkey: the Twitter Perspective
The coup/attempt in Turkey kept me up from going to sleep after the two nice hours of “Back to the Future” on German television. So despite of the…
Pokémon Go: 3 Maps to find Pokémon easily
Until now I tried to ignore the worldwide Pokémon Go hype. But as the mobile game consists more or less of a map and some geo-related content, we…
Filter Leaflet Maps with a Slider
If you create maps you always need to ask yourself: how can I make it as easy as possible to read and still have anything I need in…
Mapalomalia: First web geological modeling platform
Mapalomalia lets geologists create and visualize 3D geological models from their browsers. It’s a free to use geological modeling platform. I hope people will use it to convey information about…
Mapbox updated their mapstyles
Today I received the newsletter from Mapbox with interesting screenshots of their new mapstyles. The company convinced many users with nice basemap styles already in the past. Now…
Python and Webmaps: folium
We have seen some easy ways to create webmaps without learning JavaScript or loosing sort of control of our data in terms of using a platform like cartoDB,…