#archive_title – Astro-Geo-GIS

Earth history in 1 year – happy new year 2024 to everyone!

2024-12-202023-12-31 by Krukarius

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 entire year. As a geography student I had to learn about the history of Earth, which at some point can be … Read more

PDF drawing – the fastest georeference with AutoCAD LT

2024-12-082023-12-22 by Krukarius

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 format is platform-independent. It means, that any kind of map, plan, or sketch can be viewed, shared, and printed in various … Read more

Solar eclipse below the horizon – the observation guideline

2024-12-082023-11-23 by Krukarius

Solar eclipse below the horizon observation pattern

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 event occurs. Therefore I decided to prepare the text, which presents the guideline for this specific kind of observation. The guideline … Read more

Downloading OpenStreetMap vector datasets effectively

2024-12-172023-11-17 by Krukarius

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 unlike Google Maps, which requires appropriate payments. In fact, there are a few options for getting the GIS vector data from … Read more

Transfer AutoCAD drawing to ArcGIS Online part III

2024-12-182023-10-12 by Krukarius

Transfer layer from AutoCAD to AGOL via QGIS

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 article, you’ve learned how to prepare your AutoCAD layer upon its further loading as the file to ArcGIS Online. In fact, … Read more

Transfer AutoCAD drawing to ArcGIS Online part II

2024-12-182023-10-02 by Krukarius

Transfer layer from AutoCAD to AGOL via QGIS 2

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 QGIS. In fact, this is the section, that doesn’t change, so if you are not familiar with it jump to the … Read more

Brief guidebook for loading PDF drawings in MS Visio

2024-12-182023-09-28 by Krukarius

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 by using third-party tools. In fact, you will find quite a lot of handbooks online, which suggest using PDF-dedicated software like … Read more

How to Use Apple Music to Take Back Your Music While Travelling

2024-12-182023-08-18 by Krukarius

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 or train, but what are you missing? The perfect melody. Traveling can be pretty dull without the music blasting in your … Read more

1841 William Henry Harrison Dollar Coin Value Checker: How Much is it Worth?

2024-12-182023-07-04 by Krukarius

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 a major part of American history. Like most other commemorative coins, the William Henry Harrison dollar is worth slightly more than … Read more

The correct way of using QGIS Viewshed plugin

2025-01-212023-06-20 by Krukarius

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 planning, etc (Saxena, Mundra, Jigyasu, 2020) or even for location graves (Lockwood, Masters, 2021). The explanations of the current text are … Read more

Transfer AutoCAD drawing to ArcGIS Online – part I

2024-12-182023-06-08 by Krukarius

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 second bit will be more advanced. There is an instruction on how to load any GIS layer correctly to your ArcGIS … Read more

Choropleth map in QGIS based on the MS Excel data

2025-01-212023-06-03 by Krukarius

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 to understand how to plot the Excel data to your QGIS map correctly.

Using special characters in QGIS expressions

2024-12-182023-05-26 by Krukarius

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. The first method uses the char() element, which can give us the desired symbol, letter, or icon. In the case of … Read more

12P/Pons Brooks comet during 2024 total solar eclipse

2024-12-182023-04-14 by Krukarius

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 perihelion point. 1. 12P/PONS – BROOKS COMET – GENERAL INFORMATION 12P/Pons-Brooks is a periodic, Halley-type comet, … Read more

Effective geocoding in Python free of charge

2024-12-182023-03-07 by Krukarius

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 effective. The most important feature of this small tool is no API requirement at all. As mentioned in the title, this … Read more

What exactly is a hybrid solar eclipse?

2024-12-182023-03-01 by Krukarius

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 one type morphs into another or sometimes, just a total solar eclipse, which most people want to see under these oddball … Read more

Folium Draw plugin – extended functionality

2024-12-182023-02-03 by Krukarius

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 markers and then edit or delete them. Its functionality is the same as in the Leaflet Draw plugin, where its Folium … Read more

Styling on-click marker on Python Folium map

2024-12-182023-01-23 by Krukarius

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 any other on-click marker provided to the Folium map. Let’s get started with the code discussed in the previous article (break … Read more

The Google Earth FOV feature usage in long-distance observations

2024-12-182023-01-18 by Krukarius

Google Earth FOV and Long Distance Observations

This article presents a nice feature in Google Earth, which lets on getting a telephoto view rendered from any location around the globe. Because the option is to be considered in the aspect of the long-distance observations, it’s indeed a continuation of the thread about the estimation of visibility between two artificial objects. That’s exactly … Read more

Quick access to Street View from various applications (based on Leaflet map example)

2024-12-182023-01-11 by Krukarius

Everyone knows how Google Street View is needed for the desktop investigation of various issues. It’s very beneficial since we have access to this Google product from another platform, certainly dedicated to some topic. Indeed, there are quite a few ways of getting the Street View visible at the same time when browsing the specified … Read more