An original point of view
It’s been a while since the previous part of this article when I showed you the way of geocoding the addresses via Google Sheets. Here you will get the knowledge of geocoding straight from the Excel sheet, without launching external platforms. A front of your eyes you have another two options. These ways were mentioned … Read more
Today I would like to demonstrate how to georeference the AutoCad .dwg file in QGIS. The .dwg extension keeps layers, colours, line thickness etc. in other words all information included in the drawing file. This is the biggest advantage of drawing files over another AutoCad extension – the .dxf. This format, on the other hand, … Read more
The digitizing process is needed when we want to transform our map into vector data. This process is aimed at tracing the map features, which later appear as coordinates in either point, line, or polygon format. Digitizing is essential in the case where our data cannot be instantly integrated with the other GIS data. In … Read more
The work with addresses is quite often in our Excel spreadsheet. Today I would like to demonstrate to you how to parse the address string in the Excel cell in order to make it auto-populated on Google Maps or any other website. Nowadays many websites feature the permalink, which makes them more dynamic. The permalink … Read more
Address geocoding is a very desired tool nowadays. This is because we might need to know the location of many places at once. If for example, you want to have about 500 exact coordinates of your addresses, you won’t do them one by one, otherwise, it will last forever. So far I have shown you … Read more
There are quite a few ways allowing us to create the .kml file for Google Earth and Google Maps. The solution presented here is not quicker, but for sure quite convenient for someone, who recently started his adventure with the Python programming language. Here I would like to demonstrate to you how to create some … Read more
The Magicplan is an Android application, by which we can quickly draw the floorplan of any building i.e. camera scanning or corner defining. The spectrum of options looks wide, even in the free bundle because we can add some internal objects and furniture. This is the stuff, which is mostly needed for common work projects. … Read more
It’s been about half a year since Windy.com launched an option to upload .kml, .gpx and .geojson files into the weather map. It happened thanks to the Leaflet-kml plugin, available here. Apart from the Leaflet Javascript API map software, where we can use this plugin for loading our own .kml files, we can add them … Read more
Recently I was dealing with geotagging single addresses in Google Maps and other easily accessible tools. However, the stuff, that I focused on is playing around with single placemarks only. I believe, that this operation is much more useful when we take into account not only the address but other details, related to this place. … Read more
The United Kingdom addresses are specific because usually, a single postcode applies to a single building or at most a compact group of properties. It means, that these objects can be found very quickly, even when we are facing a bulk of addresses. Imagine, that under one unique postcode, you have a dozen or so … Read more
The Isochrone map shows how much time we need to travel between one location and another. This kind of map is very useful in geography, hydrology, transport and urban planning. In this article, I focus on transport planning only. There are a few major services, offering the isochrone map generations “for free” relatively quickly. Unfortunately, … Read more
An element or text hover effect is known i.e. from HTML and CSS languages. What is interesting, this effect can be achieved also in .kml files. Sometimes, when we have a lot of placemarks with the same (or different) icon can be easier for us, when we move a cursor on the placemark, in which … Read more
In my previous article, I clarified the link management in the relation between Google MyMaps – .kml files – Google Earth and the other way around. Now, as a continuation, I would like to bend down on content in .kml files. At first glance, it sounds simple, because each .kml file has content, written in … Read more
Google MyMaps is a very useful tool for people, who want to create their own map and base it on the Google Maps interface. Personally, I use it quite often, especially when planning some journey or placing some interesting objects across the World or some region. An important thing is to refer the stuff, prepared … Read more
Google Maps, as well as Google Earth, are very useful tools in terms of location finding. A user can find a proper address quickly in any place in the World. Sometimes we are obligated to find multiple locations for different purposes. Then it can be a problem for someone, who must have a multitude of … Read more
There are a lot of real-time flight trackers and at least a few flight archives on the web. Some of them offer to purchase the data. After purchasing you are receiving full flight data, ready for further manipulation. The most popular flight tracker with a big flight data history is Flightradar24.com. There is also the … Read more
There are a few ways to show the coordinate grids on Google Earth. The easiest way to show the coordinate grids in Google Earth is to select “Grids” from the “Tools” options. Then you will have full zoomable coordinates grid cover (Pic 1 – 3). The default coordinate system bound to Google Earth is the … Read more
The Coastal zone makes up only 4% of the world’s land area but is home to one-third of the world’s population. The Coastal zone is also the most popular destination for holidaymakers, who stay in the hotel located alongside the beach. Being on your holiday we are not always aware of the basic and underrated … Read more
In this part of the article, I would like to say more about multiple summit-perspective views in Google Earth. First of all, previously I have described largely how to manage the heywhatsthat.com panoramas in Google Earth. Now you will see how to put a few summits into your Google software and manage them correctly. Let’s … Read more
Google Earth has been widely used in geography and GIS. Previously I showed you how to simulate a flood and total solar eclipse path in this tool. There are not only things, that I am going to show you over the forthcoming months. First of all, Google Earth is one of the programs, that I … Read more