Most of the time the shortest path as the crow flies is a relatively good approximation. Roads tend to use the shortest path anyway, and when describing the direction to a large city / airport&hellip
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Google Forms in research
Although more and more people are using SurveyMonkey to create quick or in-depth surveys, I find the lack of export to CSV in the free plan a huge barrier to using it. A more flexible&hellip
Web scraping 101 – scraping standard pages
I have been recently experimenting web scraping and open data information scraping. Automation in this case is most often crucial to avoid repetitive (and useless) tasks. A lot of companies and government open an API&hellip
Uncovering Windows hidden secrets
It is commonly believed that we use only 10% of our brain; although that’s not true, according to wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_percent_of_the_brain_myth. However I believe this is true for computers, we truly use only an infirm part of&hellip
QGIS 2.8, or let’s go back to QGIS 2.6
Since I’m teaching a few lectures this semester about crowdsourcing, GPS tracking and so on, I’m spending more time on QGIS than when I was reviewing motivation in citizen science projects. I had to install&hellip
Engaging the wider society in science – Part 1
At the end of last year, I wrote a report for the European project HERCULES: http://hercules-landscapes.eu/. The aim of the project was to explore motivation in citizen science projects. I sent a short survey to practitioners&hellip
QGIS 2.6 Brighton
I’ve recently updated QGIS to the latest version – new versions are going faster and faster these days, or maybe I’m not using it as often as I used to. Between literature reviews and GoogleMaps&hellip
Wikipedia on maps
When I was still studying cartography at uni I came across Wikimapia, which was then more or less starting. I totally loved it. It doesn’t really have the depth of wikipedia, you won’t find info&hellip
Havfriluftsliv – webGIS crowdsourcing platform for water-based activities
We’ve just opened our webGIS crowdsourcing platform for water sport! The platform is a webGIS, based on GoogleMaps, and invites everyone using Danish waters to add the location of their water-based activities. We include 99 activities, under&hellip
How I Became a Geographer
To share my interest in geography, I wrote a short piece for Geography Week, which has been published today in Day of Geography To tell the story about how I became a geographer and what I&hellip