The Geography of Tweets: Reading Tweets with QGIS
Anita showed some nice examples of tweets in QGIS in 2012. Since then it seemed to be quiet about the twitter-content in QGIS. Yet tweets can be an…
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Open Data in the UK
The Ordnance Survey is UK’s mapping agency and frequently releases free datasets. Their OpenData policy is quite progressive compared to Germany’s and they’ve recently published some fresh datasets…
Landsat in Love with QGIS: the newest coup from Luca
The normal way of getting Landsat data for your GIS projects often was: visit a Landsat data mart like landcover.org, earthexplorer or WIST, search for your area and…
Geocoding Addresses in ArcGIS: the other approach
Today I stumbled upon a post from the German ESRI office and their blog gisIQ and a little tutorial (English translation) on how to geocode addresses in the…
Short Announcement: QGIS 2.8 Wien released
QGIS 2.8 (the new “Long Term Release”) was released a few days ago. It is a minor release according to the changelog but it will be supported in…
Creating ARCs in QGIS: The Python Way
So I came across this nice little project which focussed on trip planning and route over large distances… And there was this nice little post from Nathan Yau…
Attribute Updating using ArcPy
After my first attempt in Python scripting using opensource Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL), I wanted to use ArcPy in my second trial. The following code is so…
Raster Comparison using ArcGIS
In one of the biggest groups of geoscientists in Germany, Austria and Switzerland the question arose how to do a raster comparison in ArcGIS. I’ve already mentioned some…
QGIS 2.8: A Preview
QGIS 2.6 landed recently on this planet and it already brought great improvements to our daily work with geodata, the way we publish our results and the convenience…
Christmas 2014: gifts for map lovers
It’s only 3 weeks left till Christmas and as we are all map lovers/ GIS enthusiasts/ geoscientist geeks we maybe want to get or give some special gifts.…
A small tool with Python: the shapefile archiver
Let me introduce to you, guys, my first Python tool: “Shapefile Archiver”. Usually, I face lots of problems in managing my shapefiles. My first problem is backing them…
Create custom markers with R for your webmap
When it comes to webmapping there are thousands of possible markers you can choose from but when it comes to markers depending on the data, which is inside…