An original point of view
Solutions and hints applicable to any interactive maps, including Leaflet, OpenLayers, and Google MyMaps.
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 effective. The most important feature of this small tool is no API requirement at all. As mentioned in the title, this … Read more
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 markers and then edit or delete them. Its functionality is the same as in the Leaflet Draw plugin, where its Folium … Read more
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 any other on-click marker provided to the Folium map. Let’s get started with the code discussed in the previous article (break … Read more
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. Indeed, there are quite a few ways of getting the Street View visible at the same time when browsing the specified … Read more
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 the web, where anyone can find the basics of data displaying with Python Folium in several different ways. Most of them … 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
<<< Read the 1st part of The solar eclipse visualization on Google Earth In the 1st part of this article, I showed you how to create the “umbra” in Scribble Maps and use it in Google Earth as a .kml file. Here I would like to demonstrate step by step how to create a pretty … Read more
This article presents how to vizualise the total solar eclipse on the most renowned geographical tool, the Google Earth.