geo.admin.ch: bringing Swiss geodata potential to life
A priorized project of eGovernment Switzerland Usage and exchange of geodata is fostered by geo.admin.ch in a significant way. The Federal geoportal is operated by the Federal Office…
Tag: webmap
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…
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…
Interactive Space Image Map of ISS-Pictures
The Sojus TMA-13M started on May 28th 2014 from Baikonur to bring the German Alex Gerst, the Russian Maxim Surajew and the American Reid Wiseman to the ISS…
D3.js mapping tutorial 1: set up an initial webmap
This is the first digital-geography.com tutorial for setting up an initial webmap with D3.js-JavaScript library by Mike Bostock.
From CSV To Heatmap With Leaflet
There are so many applications out there but they probably share one thing: export your data as a XXX-delimited table. And it’s also very easy to create a…
QGis Tutorial: webmap creation with QGis, QGis2leaf and MMQGIS
This tutorial will explain you how to create your own, interactive webmap in a fast and easy way! Such webmaps are used zo visualize e.g. adresses on digital maps. I’m using QGis 2.4 + Qgis Plugin Qgis2Leaf, google spreadsheet and a macro, wich I’ll tell you later about.
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…
Google maps April fools
Every year we face this strange behavior of people to do some pranks on first of April. So Google pranks on this particular day of the year are…
CSVs and leaflet: the ultimate ressource
When it comes to certain tasks the usage of leaflet can be tricky. Of course it claims not to be the ultimate webmapping solution but one of the…
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…