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Was ist Waze und warum hat Google Interesse daran?
Wazes’ Navigationsoberfläche Waze ist eine vielseitige, kostenfreie Navigationslösung für Smartphones, die durch verschiedene Communityfunktionen zum Verkehrsinformationssystem erweitert wird und sich...
View Articleshort announcement: learn to create maps online
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 to develop skills. This week we will see the...
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short announcement: geological maps for Spain
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 Germany we have now a detailed source...
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GeoMapApp – ein mächtiges Werkzeug zur Visualisierung räumlicher Daten
Der Name „GeoMapApp“ verrät es bereits, es geht um die digitale Erstellung von Karten. Im Jahre 2004 erschien die erste Version des freien Visualisierungstools als Teil des Marine Geoscience Data...
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Vehicle tracking now also available for the trains of the German DB
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 I think it’s fun to play around with it. The DB commonly has...
View Articleshort announcement: The Mercator Puzzle
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 they lead us to think how big some areas...
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geocoding addresses directly in LibreOffice Calc
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 stuff and get a little bit more desktop orientated: Let...
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The Spiegel Magazine and their “maps”
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 know leaflet quite good and also tried other mapping...
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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 GPS Visualizer, and I absolutely love it! It...
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Aktualität von Openstreetmap: Tool zur Nachverfolgung von Veränderungen
http://www.openstreetmap.org kann als Open Source basierter Kartendienst in vielerlei Hinsicht den kommerziellen Web-Diensten Google Maps oder Bing Maps das Wasser reichen. Insbesondere der direkte...
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ancient maps: shortly on Google Earth / Maps
There were some rumors in the blogosphere about the new program of National Geographic Society. But one thing first as it is more important: Our good old friend Mr. Mercator will have an anniversary:...
View Article2013 in maps: a short review
Thanks to Christoph, he also runs a specific blog on paleoseismicity, who send me the link, I want to share the gizmodo list of best maps 2013 with you. Despite the little US focus (which is a...
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Geonews Januar 2014: Ausblick 2014, Echtzeit Erdaufnahmen,...
Wir von digital-geography.com sind sehr stolz, dass wir ab sofort die deutsche Übersetzung der berühmten Slashgeo Batch Geonews übernehmen dürfen. Seit 2005 erreicht das Team um Alexandre Leroux...
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short announcement: geological maps for Spain
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 Germany we have now a detailed source...
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Using OpenStreetMap on your GARMIN
Since most people working with digital-data they are always interested in obtaining their own data using a Global Positioning System (GPS). Therefore I’ll give a short introduction for all of you,...
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Soil Atlas and Soil Data
If you are working on European soils, I’m sure you already know the website of the European Union Joint Research Center, the so called ‘European Soil Portal‘. If not, it’s your chance now to get in...
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digital’s digest – 37/2014: compare google with OSM, balloon and kite...
Digital’s digest – This new post series gives you a weekly overview about new exciting geo-, project- and gis-links. We should write about a special link? Please submit it in the comments. Find former...
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short announcement: tactical pilotage maps online
Watching for gifts for map lovers these days? Some guys over at reddit do so as well. Besides some interesting links (notebooks, OpenStreetMap clothings or map glasses) there was this side link to a...
View ArticleOpen 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...
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Maps of “Out of Eden Walk” by Paul Salopek (National Geographic)
Today I had the chance to attend a lecture by Paul Salopek in Tbilisi, Georgia. This lecture took me to the idea to write a short review about Paul Salopek and his project here on Digital-Geography...
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