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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 I would like to explain to you briefly the option, which allows you to open the Street View image anywhere you … Read more
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, when your Excel data is equipped with the geometry, which allows the QGIS to locate all points correctly. The pivot of … Read more
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 can’t be set up properly, because you can see the “For development purposes only” information along with the poor quality of … Read more
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 the map, which is already equipped with some important data. A good example here is the map generated by the QGIS2Web … Read more
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 equipped with some existing layers, like it takes place in the case of the map rendered by the QGIS2Web plugin can … Read more
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 some simple elements in Google Earth is explained. Besides the drawing features, Google Earth can be a place where a user … Read more
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 will be subject to my explanation in this article. The georeferencing is fairly possible by the Georeferencer plugin (Georeferencer GDAL), which … Read more
The Ordnance Survey grid conversion is usually required when dealing with some projects across the UK. Usually, along with the standard WGS 84 datum, we need to define X (Easting) and Y (Northing) coordinates. This task might be quite time-consuming when converting our locations one by one. Fortunately, we have some tools, which can do … Read more
There are a few nice tools, which help you to get your map larger than the screen of your desktop. However, all of them are predominantly focused on Google Maps, which is the most popular interactive map platform. If you want to have your Google Map bigger than your screen, even up to 12000x12000Px resolution … Read more
Google Earth is a handy tool, which includes much information. Most of this information can be shown as the layer overlaid on the satellite imagery covering our virtual globe. These layers can be displayed along with our own .kml files plotted into our area. The layers built into Google Earth are not sole. The user … Read more
In this thread, I would like to describe a swift method, which allowed us to make some changes within the .kml files. I am focusing on the names of columns inherited from the .shp files, although the described method can be applied to other texts and even some values too. What is most important, we … Read more
In the last article about the OpenLayers output from the QGIS2Web plugin, I would like to give up the time for labelling issues, which I believe is another important element of our map, without which it can’t be displayed properly. Sometimes labelling is of the same importance as key, when we want to see where … Read more
When you work with any Excel data, probably you experienced sometimes, that the spreadsheet input looks messy. I personally deal with the address data predominantly, which you could notice by reading my previous articles about geocoding and reverse geocoding. What is the most fun here, even the reverse geocoding results can bring confusion to our … Read more
Legend and scale besides the pop-up window and labeling is another important map element, which everyone wants to have clean and tidy. In this shorter (I hope) article I want to explain to you how to customize the legend for your OpenLayers map generated by the QGIS2web plugin and add some relevant elements like a … Read more
Continuing the explanation of the ways, where we can upgrade the QGIS2web plugin manually, I would like to explain how to expand the search range in this plugin for more than 1 layer. The plugin supports the option for 1 layer only, but if you need more, coding is required. My goal is to show … Read more
The previous 3 articles concentrated on the geocoding process in Excel for free. I considered the Google Sheets option and also the VBA Excel tools applicable to Bing, Nominatim, and others. Now it’s the best time to explain the process from another way around. Sometimes we have a situation when reverse geocoding is more needed … Read more
QGIS2web plugin is very handy because it is somewhat of a gateway between your QGIS project and its presence outside in the interactive version. The plugin is able to render as much as it can from our project in three types of interactive maps: Leaflet, OpenLayers, and Mapbox GL JS. The most important thing is, … Read more
Recently I showed you how to collect the speed limit data about the specified section of the road. It’s obviously a huge step toward the speed limit map preparation. Reading the last article you got to know some examples of beautiful and very useful speed limit maps. In this reading, you will get knowledge about … Read more
The road speed limit is somewhat guidance of what speed is considered safe and reasonable in the given section of the road or area. The primary goal of the speed limit is to keep everyone safe, not only the car driver but also the people affected nearby (pedestrians, cyclists, etc.). All speed limits are based … Read more
The 3rd part of this vast article about geocoding is slated for discussion about another free geocoding tool for MS Excel, namely the OpenStreetMap Nominatim geocoding and other remaining tools, which could be worth attention. NOMINATIM GEOCODING TOOL The usage of this small tool is very simple, even simpler than Bing Maps API geocoding, however, … Read more