OpenSource QGIS + PostGIS installation: “the Ubuntu way”
A lot of you out there are probably working on Windows Systems using ArcGIS and I have to admit that the possibilities with ArcINFO in the background and…
A lot of you out there are probably working on Windows Systems using ArcGIS and I have to admit that the possibilities with ArcINFO in the background and…
Thanks to @seandebasti who enjoyed this year’s “Society of Cartographers Annual Conference” at Staffordshire University who send us a short link on Twitter. The link provides a huge…
The NASA Earth Observations updated their data archive with fresh NDVI-Datasets from January 2013 to June.
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…
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…
Thanks to a post from the mapbox colleagues I’ve found out that new Landsat 8 scenes are already available on EarthExplorer. The data is great!!!
The new JSON Format GeoJSON allows you to easily embed geographical features in your leaflet webmap. Additionally you can create it very easily in the open source GIS…
The joint research centre of the European Commission has published a soil atlas of Europe and Africa. Downloadable as PDF-Parts, they contain informations about the natural soil resources.
On Saturday, some villages near my hometown suffered heavy rains. Up to 100 l/m² arrived during the afternoon and evening in Kirchhasel and other places in central Thuringia.…
In some countries, such as the USA and Spain, there is a very nice law that makes life easy for geoscientists. This law guarantees free access to a…
Sorry to talk about this important tool with a little delay. As I was lecturing at the university I was using the Warehouse Inventory Search Tool (WIST) by…
Behind this heading a real highlight is waiting. The European Environment Agency offers a massive amount of interesting datasets touching different themes of europe and the world. Additional…