A not complete list of WFS/WMS Catalogs
I am more the offline data user but when it comes to the question “Where can I get my data from?”, Web Feature Services (WFS) are a great…
Category: WMS, WFS and WCS
Awesome map style
Are you back from holiday? Maybe you switched from Casale Monferrato, Piedmont and have used the map of Monferrato Landscapes. If you were lucky, you see a new…
Map a whole city with OpenStreetMap
One day last month, I came back to OpenStreetMap, to see how the city of Legnano (city of 60k people – near Milan – Italy) was mapped. I knew I…
How to organize geodata storage?
In the past I’ve learned one thing: the only chance to do efficient geodata-projects is to have a clean data structure.
In this post I’ll show you some tools and share my thoughts about organizing (geo)data to have more efficient project-workflows. After that I would be very interested in your solutions and approaches to do smart data-projects.
Happy B-Day QGIS2leaf
When I started to work on QGIS2leaf about one year ago it was a nice idea and my first real dive into Python programming and using the possibilities…
ArcGIS Open Data
For a year, ESRI’s open data initiative is online. As I’ve heard about it for the first time I was just thinking: nice move to get people into…
geo.admin.ch: bringing Swiss geodata potential to life
A priorized project of eGovernment Switzerland Usage and exchange of geodata is fostered by geo.admin.ch in a significant way. The Federal geoportal is operated by the Federal Office…
DataSF or how to do open data right
In 2010 the City and County of San Francisco’s official open data portal was launched. To me it is the ultimate experience for publishing/consuming open data: based on…
Geoscience Australia – geodata collection via WMS, WFS and WCS
The Australian government now provides a bunch of commercial and free geodata on their Australia Geoscience-Portal. Like the well known U.S. data provider Earth-Explorer, you can do a product…