Tag: map

Tracking Sydney Ferries in real time with OpenSource GIS tools

The trend in IT is currently dominated by terms like "Big Data", "Real-Time", "Fast Data", "Smart Data", ... GIS is no exception as most of the data out there can be…
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DEM for Slope calculations in Bicycle Routing: PostGIS

Everyone who went cycling in Belgium knows that the famous quote from Jacques Brel "Le plat pays qui est le mien" is far from being true! Belgium is globally a flat…
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The Simple and Free PostGIS VS the Complex and Expensive Oracle Spatial

Spatial Database battles exists since … the existence of spatial databases! Two most prominent spatial database in the GIS world are Oracle Spatial and PostgreSQL/PostGIS, both having advantages and disadvantages.…
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The 2012 Presidential Election Map using PostGIS, Geoserver and OL3

The news of the beginning of the week was monopolized by the US presidential election. During the last few months, a lot of interactive maps flourished on the internet showing…
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Full Sentinel-2 cloud-free mosaic of Belgium!

The Copernicus's Sentinel-2 programme makes it possible to have a full mosaic coverage of any point in Europe with a revisit of 5 days at the Equator, provided no clouds…
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Earthquake in Amatrice, Italy: Before/After with Sentinel-2

Sentinel-2 imageries can be used in a huge variety of applications. I was trying to figure out how these free data could be used in the monitoring of Earthquake damage. The…
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Change detection using Sentinel-2 and PostGIS

With its very short revisiting period, Sentinel-2 satellite data make it possible to perform change detection operations of every point on Earth every 5 days at least. In this article, we're going to…
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Why so many -ange places in Belgium near Luxembourg?

Belgium's petrol station! The South of Belgium is a beautiful place covered mostly with the region Ardennes - a forested landscape where Belgian used to go out at the weekends…
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I want to work for your GIS Missions

Ready for your GIS missions! [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="479"] I WANT (TO WORK FOR) YOU[/caption] It is a great pleasure to announce that themagiscian.com is now open for YOUR gis missions! We have now a…
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A Hooded Vulture Wildlife study using Movebank, PostGIS, QGIS and KML

Movebank.org is fabulous website that centralizes GPS data of tracked animals. Hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, the platform data are accessible to researchers from all over the world to study…
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