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...
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 2024-12-18
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...
GIS / Long-distance observations / Photography
by Krukarius · Published 2023-01-18 · Last modified 2024-12-18
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...
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....
Another year is over. Traditionally it’s time for new wishes for everyone. On this occasion, I used to attach some pictures of fireworks watched at particular places or even a multitude of random spots...
Folium is a powerful Python library dedicated to geospatial data visualization. Its major engine is based on Leaflet – an open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps. There are a lot of sources on...
Google Street View is a technology, which provides interactive and multiperspective panoramas of many places and streets worldwide. It’s commonly used on a daily basis, but hardly anyone pays attention to the permalink displayed...
After browsing the internet and trying my own approaches finally, I can come out with a nice method, that allows you to pass the attribute table data from your QGIS project to AutoCAD LT....
I would like to show you a nice feature in this short article. You can use it in your AutoCAD software and the LT version. It applies to searching (or zooming) the object by...
Geodesy / Long-distance observations / Optics
by Krukarius · Published 2022-11-25 · Last modified 2024-12-18
This article is about the general definition of the realm, which has been described occasionally on this website since 2017. Therefore I guess I should have done it much earlier, however better late than...
