August 29, 2015
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These days OpenStreetMap is getting quite popular as a subject of study in social and geoinformation sciences. A lot of research papers are published on this matter and the term ‘VGI’ (volunteered geographic information) is a popular buzzword in this … Continue reading
August 24, 2015
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Some might have noticed that in spring i skipped my usual report on the OpenStreetMap coastline data quality. I have now prepared a whole year update on that as well as a similar report on the glacier data (where my … Continue reading
August 22, 2015
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Here a recent Landsat image showing the return of the sun to the Antarctic after the southern hemisphere winter. The location is near the tip of the Antarctic peninsula at Seymour Island with the eastern end of James Ross Island … Continue reading
August 21, 2015
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There are now also various options to generate regular patterns in my pattern generator tool. The difficulty here is that from the map rendering side there is usually the constraint that the pattern has to be square with a size … Continue reading
August 19, 2015
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After producing the Franz Josef Land map and the Severnaya Zemlya map i have now completed another similar map of the third large group of islands in the Russian Arctic: Novaya Zemlya. Novaya Zemlya is located south of Franz Josef … Continue reading
August 19, 2015
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Recently the USGS released the last part of the SRTM i second data set. I updated the elevation data search tool to include that – you can now find all 1 arc second tiles available there, just check Global SRTM … Continue reading
August 13, 2015
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I put up a number of new 3d views of the Alps on the services.imagico.de catalog that were – like the previous images – created based on the Landsat mosaic of Germany and the Alps. In addition you can … Continue reading
August 3, 2015
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Last week we had a few days of extraordinarily sunny weather in large parts of the Eurasian Arctic – see here for an overall view. So i created a new Summer mosaic of Franz Josef Land complementing the winter view … Continue reading