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Imagine if you could know exactly where you were inside a building, without ever having to ask for help. Indoor mapping is making this a reality, and it’s changing the way we navigate transportation hubs like airports and train stations. With indoor mapping, passengers can easily find their way to their gate or platform, no … Read more
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 sections collected from the Waze.com map service. Admittedly this is not the quickest way of getting a map such as this, … 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 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
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