Tag: open street map

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 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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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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Crime Data analyses (Tulsa, OK)

Open Crime data are very powerful for predictive crime analyses. Most Police units make use of historical data and GIS to analyze crime patterns and trends. The conclusion drawn from these analyses…
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Routing in Brisbane: a recipe for a complete web app

Routing We use routing almost everyday. In the car, the GPS is our best friend. In public transportation we use the topological maps to find the quickest connections between point A and point…
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IKEA Stores and their catchment areas in the Benelux countries

The catchment area of a store is its nearby surroundings where the customers are living. If we take into account the Reilly's law of retail gravitation, "customers may be willing…
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Analyse your Runtastic, Runkeeper, Garmin, Endomondo performance on a map (ArcGIS for Desktop)

In the previous post, we saw how to import GPX data coming from a Mobile Sports Application, such as Runtastic, and how to create a map. In this post, we…
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Import GPX using Python (ArcGIS for Desktop)

In the previous article I presented how to import Sports GPX data into ArcGIS for Desktop (example taken with Runtastic). I did the exercise for a single GPX file but what do…
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From Mobile Sports App to Map (ArcGIS for Desktop)

You are a runner and you use a tool such as beautiful as Runtastic, Runkeeper, Garmin, or Endomondo, to track your performance (I personally use Runtastic). After having run thousands of kilometers,…
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