How to create a custom Web AppBuilder Widget for your Portal with ORS
In the recent years I often worked with ArcGIS Portal / Enterprise and fell in love with the idea of writing widgets which I can use in the…
Tag: ESRI
Comparing Isochrone APIs: an insight into different providers
In the past I was working on different plugins to connect with multiple APIs and use their isochrone endpoints in QGIS. Let me summarize some of my findings…
ArcGIS REST API and QGIS: a practical example
The ArcGIS REST API provides some interesting endpoints which can be used for free with a developer account. But how to do this in QGIS as you might…
Short Announcement: ESRI World Imagery Basemap now open for OSM Mapping
If you digitize features for OpenStreetMap you might have used Landsat data or the Bing basemap. Now we do have one other source for our armchair mapping approach:…
EGEA: Who are we and what do we do?
We are EGEAns and part of the European Geography Association for students and young Geographers (or in short EGEA), a network to create, explore and share different approaches…
Conference INTERGEO 2015
Last years INTERGEO in Berlin was an interesting experience for a newbie in the world of geodesy like I am. This year I will also attend the INTERGEO…
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…
ArcGIS 10.3
Yesterday the new major release of worldwide leading GIS solution ArcGIS was released: 10.3. Most users upgraded already to the version 10.x and enjoyed Python support as well…
SciPy integration in ArcGIS
Most of GIS users today will probably work with ArcGIS. Since version 10 the implementation / integration of Python into the ArcGIS framework and ArcPy it’s important for…
ESRI’s MOOC Going Spatial: Week 5
This week the MOOC will concentrate on patterns and hypothesis about patterns. Exercises will concentrate on “hotspots” and patterns in crime analysis. So the keyword in this lessons…
Overview: Newest developments from ESRI
At this years 11th geoforum of central Germany ESRI showed some new developments in their ArcGIS online portfolio. Those were published 23rd of September. Let me please introduce…
ESRI’s MOOC Going Spatial: Week 4
This week it is all about topology, proximity and combining logical and spatial queries at ESRI’s MOOC. Furthermore you will get to know path analysis and what are…