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Digital Geography
4M ago
John Nelson did it again and amazed us by recreating AI topographic images with ArcGIS Pro. He showed the process in his latest youtube video. You may ask…
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3y ago
Basemaps are a web cartographers best friend, aren’t they. There are plenty of them online, ready to be embedded in your upcoming nice web map application. In this…
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3y ago
Today I wanted to hack together a standalone script using PyQGIS, the QGIS Python bindings, to write a small prototype. I hadn’t written such a standalone script yet,…
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Digital Geography
3y ago
Placekey is a free address and point-of-interest (POI) matching tool that is now integrated with QGIS via the Placekey Connector Plugin. Placekey does the work of address and…
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Digital Geography
4y ago
In the summer of 2019 Michael Marz started to extract most important items from OpenStreetMap and published those extracts as geopackages on his webpage. Back then I looked…
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4y ago
I hate testing! Yet I do understand that it is crucial for a good oftware solution. As I am often confronted with GUIs, I asked myself how to…
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Digital Geography
4y ago
There are plenty of webmapping services out there. The best known might be mapbox, carto, arcgis online, google maps. But what they all share: they do not come…
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Digital Geography
4y ago
GeoPandas, once installed, supports you with a handfull of GIS functions in your Python notebooks and will leverage your work with geospatial data. But to be honest: this…
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Digital Geography
4y ago
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 Web AppBuilder for a custom web app. Unfortunately this is still only possible in your own ArcGIS Port Web AppBuilder and not in ArcGIS online. But maybe, this will change in the future. So please follow me, creating a custom widget to offer OpenStreetMap Routing as provided by ORS in ArcGIS Web Apps. I’ve used ORS as it is somehow not focussed on profit. The prerequisites Let us start with a sample…
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Digital Geography
4y ago
Some time has past since I last wrote a DEM comparison, comparing ALOS World with SRTM 1 and GDEM V2 with SRTM 3. But as NASA and METI released the lates version of the ASTER GDEM dataset, I will compare this once again for a certain area in central Mongolia. But this time, the competitor will be SRTM 1. GDEM V3 The announcement is quite promising: Compared to Version 2, Version 3 has a decrease in elevation void area due to the increase of ASTER stereo image data and improved process, and a decrease in water area anomaly data due…
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