webGIS are everywhere – often GoogleMaps mashups, but also more sophisticated ones. Having programmed a few, I’m starting to have a keen eyes of the issues faced by the programmers. Here is the start of a&hellip

webGIS are everywhere – often GoogleMaps mashups, but also more sophisticated ones. Having programmed a few, I’m starting to have a keen eyes of the issues faced by the programmers. Here is the start of a&hellip
Some maps should not be published. Not because they deal with touchy subjects ‘human waste’? iiirk. Or because the data they present is wrong. Simply because they just don’t add anything to the discussion. I think&hellip
Now that I had a municipality attribute in my coastline dataset, I was able to calculate the length of each segment and used Excel to summarize the calculations per municipality. Scale-dependant result To double check&hellip
I was recently asked “what is the length of the coastline of each municipality of Denmark?” For anyone acquainted with GIS, this is known as the ‘coastline paradox’; depending at which scale you look at the&hellip
Following on the map entrance to the cultural encyclopedia we launched at the end of March, we’ve now published the equivalent for Faeroes and Greenland. The data available was really different, so it was more difficult&hellip
During my postdoc I’ve had the opportunity to take part in a really interesting piece of research on landscape change. The research was part of the EU project HERCULES, and explored the driving forces of landscape change&hellip
In the past 4 to 5 months, I’ve been working part-time on representing the entries of the Danish cultural encyclopaedia on a map. It was challenging in two ways, because I had to work with historic administrative&hellip
At the start of my postdoc in Copenhagen University, I worked with the dNmark project, investigating options for involving stakeholders into decision-making to improve the use of Nitrogen in agriculture. The 5-year project, which I&hellip
Following discussions with current PhD students in the research group, we’ve realised that every researcher was using different methodologies, but we were not sharing enough about them. A small group of us decided to start&hellip
It has been a year now that we’ve opened our ‘havfriluftsliv’ platform – it invited organised people who do water-based activities (sailing, fishing, snorkelling, ..) to add points, lines, and GPX-files where they carry out&hellip