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…
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…
Today I stumbled upon a “map” on Spiegel Online ( an import news page in Germany ) which shows the spied countries of the NSA. As we already…
In a recent post I’ve described a way to geocode in a Google Spreadsheet quite easily. Now let’s move a little bit away from this crazy web 2.0…
A lot of articles here at Digital Geography deal with maps and projections. You may have wondered how wrong the different map projections are or let’s say, what…
I have to admit that I don’t know since when the Zugradar (train radar) of the Deutsche Bahn (DB) is online, but I found it per accident and…
Christoph already wrote an article about “How to find geospatial data for Spain” and also mentioned the IGME page but thanks to Mr. Nölte from the Dechenhöhle in…
This week a new 5 weeks course will start at coursera. Coursera is an online learning platform that enables people from all around the world to learn and…
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.…
As I have seen today on engadget Youtube presents now a new Trend Map where you can see what viewers in the US like to see on Youtube.…
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…
Explore the new Google Maps with the treasure map, have a look on hand painted maps and features in Google Maps. You can enjoy streetview in a historic-style,…
In this tutorial I’ll show you, how to combine text information with spatial information using the open source software QGis. You can easily download and install QGis from…