Short announcement: CartoDB has some suprises
Dear fellows, the blog post from CartoDB was published two days ago but it is important for every GIS/webmapping person to know: Map views are not limited anymore…
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odyssey.js: your easy story mapping engine
Reading my tweets can be somehow interesting: It seems like ESRI invented and exclusively owns the phrase “story map”: #storymap Tweets What IS a story map? To me…
The new version of qgis2leaf
The last post about our famous qgis2leaf plugin showed a glimpse of what it is capable of: exporting all your features from a QGIS project to a working…
export your qgis project to a webmap with qgis2leaf
It was just a small idea but I haven’t slept much since it came to my mind to build a plugin fo QGIS. It should create a basic…
historic shipping routes: a webmap
We all know: Black is beautiful. So is this map from Andrew Zolnai. But besides the stunning Stamen toner background map he also shows the significant amount of 260.000…
GPS Visualizer – a great online tool for GPS, GoogleMaps and GoogleEarth issues
I looked for a program to draw circles of a pre-defined radius around some points on earth I had the coordinates from. A quick search returned the website…
short announcement: learn to map with cartoDB
Dear folks, most of you probably know how to map things using software on your pc. Some of you might also know cartoDB. We like their service as…
“Top 100 Geospatial Influencers”: a critical map view
A short time of my day I am watching twitter like others are zapping the TV. A short time ago, there was this list out of nowhere: “the…
how to create clustered points in leaflet
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…
QGIS Tutorial III: from data to map – visualize data in a map
In our last session we started with some topographic “pre”-map as we prepared everything to create a printable map with QGIS which shows heights in a special area.…
QGIS Tutorial II: from data to map – preparing data visualisation
In this tutorial I would like to show you, how to create a topographic map and analyse topographical data using freely available SRTM data and QGIS including some…
geoJSON with QGIS and leaflet: from data to map
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…