The text explains the rare phenomenon, in which the azimuths of moonrise and moonset are more extreme. This situation allows us to see distant landscape features with the lunar disk beyond. Learn more about...
Stellarium is the astrosoftware developed for many years. There were quite a lot of versions of 0. x meaning, that the work is still in progress. Since 2021, when Stellarium reached the version of...
Suppose you visit my website quite often as a GIS Specialist or similar. In that case, you probably know my texts about transferring the AutoCAD LT data to ArcGIS Online using the QGIS application....
This article will shortly describe the tool I needed to develop recently. It is aimed at addressing cleansing. The general lists of addresses are often messy. It means, that the components of the address...
The tail end of the year is the time for some kind of a resume when we are going back in our memories and analyzing what was good and what was bad over the...
PDF documents are very popular. They can include various content from text through simple drawings to detailed maps of some areas. Storing drawings, plans, or maps in PDF files is very convenient because this...
The 2024 total solar eclipse is coming. Anyone interested will be in North America. We cannot forget about the people, who live or will temporarily stay in Western Europe on the day when the...
OpenStreetMap platform is a worldwide free geographic database, updated and maintained by free volunteers. The primary advantage of this platform is the availability of the data, which can be downloaded anytime by the user...
The last bit of this whole text covers the full guidance for the creation of the individual feature hosted layer, which can be used next for all available ArcGIS Online tools. In the last...
The previous post explained to you the simplest way of migrating the AutoCAD drawing to ArcGIS Online. It included the important bits like the AutoCAD layer extraction as well as its further import to...
This short article is dedicated to people, who use Microsoft Visio on a daily basis. The PDF format isn’t supported directly by MS Visio software, although we can get this drawing in place easily...
Have you ever planned a trip but realized you’re lacking in the music aspect? Maybe you lost your playlists or aren’t sure how to compose the perfect playlist. So you’re sitting on that plane...
The William Henry Harrison dollar coin is a 2009 commemorative coin meant to honor the 9th President of the United States. Harrison only served for one month in 1841 before he died, but he’s...
Archeology / GIS / Long-distance observations
by Krukarius · Published 2023-06-20 · Last modified 2024-06-12
Visibility analysis constitutes great importance in many fields such as sensor deployment, decisions for placement of mobile towers for maximum coverage, military operation planning, gaming, fire monitoring towers in the forest, urban design, landscape...
This is the two-piece article, which aims to show you how to successfully add the AutoCAD LT drawing to the ArcGIS Online platform. In part 1 the superficial layer will be chosen, whereas the...
This time I would like to present an excellent way of making the simple choropleth map in QGIS, based on MS Excel data. Occasionally you will be acquainted with some tricks, which help you...
This brief text explains how to use some custom symbols in QGIS expression. Obviously, it applies only to the quoted part, which represents the bits with string. There are 2 ways of doing it....
This text shows some guidelines for the brief moment of the total solar eclipse 2024 occurrence at twilight, which presumably will allow for a fantastic view of the 12P/Pons-Brooks comet being close to its...
In this short text, I would like to share my approach regarding the simple Python geocoding tool. This tool is completely free and I’ve implemented some elements for its usability, which should make it...
This text is aimed at explaining to you what roughly is the hybrid solar eclipse phenomenon. In my opinion, most sources define the hybrid solar eclipse incorrectly, defining it as the eclipse, in which...
The Draw is a very nice plugin dedicated to anyone who wishes to draw editable vectors on the Folium map. It’s a comprehensive plugin, that can add lines, polylines, polygons, rectangles, circles, circlemarkers, and...
Recently I’ve explained to you how to launch Google Street View from any place on the Folium map. Today it’s the time for continuation – styling the on-click marker, which can be applied to...
