Since this amazing image (at the top) has been published, the articles about the 25 brightest stars in the night sky grew like weeds. Despite a multitude of similar texts presenting a brief description...
In this short text, I would like to mention a couple of steps to the successful conversion of the Google Earth files between the .kmz and .kml. As we know, the .kmz file is...
A heat map represents the density of specific data within an area of a map. It presents as color-coded circles on the map, depending on set parameters. The aggregation of this data formulates with...
Previously I explained to you how to make the speed limit in QGIS and display it in Google Maps. This process required drawing the new layer including the speed limit of the given road...
OpenInfraMap is one of many OpenStreetMap projects, which is concentrated on highlighting the infrastructure worldwide. Predominantly this infrastructure is invisible in the major OpenStreetMap rendering but is directly sourced from OpenStreetMap. The OpennInfraMap is...
Print composer in QGIS gives us the possibility of creating printable maps and atlases, which can be saved as the .pdf or .svg. The print composer provides a wide spectrum of options by adding...
Opening websites programmatically at their certain addresses is quite a straightforward thing regardless of the programming language. Previously I dealt with launching Google Maps from the Excel document with the Google Chrome browser. Now...
We are coming to the end of the next year, another busy year for anyone of us. At the finish of the 6th year of the MkrGeo blog, I would like to wish all...
Importing PDF documents directly to Google Sheets still remains a tricky issue. The first stop at this conversion route is using Google Docs, where you can extract the PDF content nicely. One more thing...
Sweet Home 3D is an open-source architectural design software, mostly dedicated to interiors, which helps users create a 2D plan of a house with a 3D preview. In this design software, a user can...
Today I would like to discuss the process of how can we plot bulk data located in multiple Excel worksheets to QGIS and display them as the point layer. I definitely mean the situation,...
The starry night is a nice view for everyone I guess quite often we like to lie on the ground and gaze at the sky full of stars. In the whole Milky Way, we...
The Mapy.cz is probably the best tourist map (and app) worldwide. It has been created by the Seznam.cz – one of the main web portals and search engines operating in the Czech Republic. The...
Street View is a good tool, which can be incorporated into your own interactive maps like Leaflet or OpenLayers. Unfortunately, since 2018 Google hasn’t served it for free. In turn, the Google Maps products...
Drawing your own shapes in OpenLayers is a nice option, which gives us an opportunity to customize the existing map. I mean not only the plain map set by the basic coding but also...
Anyone, who deals with long-distance observations knows all the most popular panorama or visibility cloak generators from the given place. Every user knows the primary malady of all these simulators – they’re based on...
In this short post, I would like to demonstrate to you the programmatic method of saving the custom shapes in OpenLayers as the .geoJSON file. Drawing your own features on the OpenLayers map canvas...
Probably you used Google Earth many times, watched at least a few tutorials, and tried to manipulate some files by yourself. On the Web, you can find many sources, where the process of creating...
The georeferencing option in QGIS is very handy when we want to have some interesting images on the map canvas. I mean the map images in the vast majority (optionally historical maps), and they...
Stellarium is a free open-source planetarium, which can be used in different ways. The primary software is dedicated to your computer, but you can still work with Stellarium by using it both via a...