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It’s not always necessary to create new spatial data, especially if your data comes from a surveyor office ;). But how can we automatically add the geometry of a Shape to our database (Postgresql/PostGIS), without adding all different row types, which are delivered by the *.dbf? Before we start, check out some additional requirements: – [...]
Master diary: Let’s start Month 1-2
April 14, 20111 Kommentar
Hey everyone, so it’s gonna happen, wohoo. In the next six month i’m writing my master thesis. The main part will be to design and programm a Geoportal using OpenSource Software to manage industrial real estate and this monthly outcoming blog entrys will describe my journey. The first post today is about the design concept [...]
Happy new year everyone and welcome 2011! It’s time for a new OpenLayers Quicktutorial featuring GeoExt. Most of you, who are searching for GeoExt and Grid solutions will find this little workshop „Creating a Grid View of WFS Features“ posted by OpenGeo. It’s a basic but well written and documented workshop, which makes it really [...]
Quicktut vol.1 OpenLayers.Popup jQuery Style
November 22, 201015 Kommentare
Getting a new fresh look for your personal OpenLayer.Popup with jQuery. What we are going to do is adding the jQuery Tabs including CSS-Style to our OpenLayer Popup. So below you see the tabs example which you can find at the jQuery page with two additional DIV-tags. The first one hides the layout, the second [...]
Android GeoRSS Reader with XMLPullParse
November 10, 201021 Kommentare
Hey everyone, today i’ll show you how easily it is to use the native Android XMLPullParser to display GeoRSS Feeds at your mobile Google Maps Application (including code snippets and useful tutorial links). But before we start let’s take a look at the GeoRSS-wiki to get an overview about the XML-Syntax we need to handle [...]
World Art: City-to-City Connections
Oktober 23, 201025 Kommentare
Hi folks and Welcome to maptags.de, my first blog entry is about a really stunning world art visualization designed by Chris Harrison in 2007. He created a set of visualizations that display how cities across the globe are interconnected. In total, there are 89,344 connections. See how the Global City-to-City Connection Image looks like. Note: [...]
Hi, my name is Simon Appelt. I was born on 15.03.1984 near Osnabrueck, Germany.