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
Tools
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
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
QGIS 2.0!
I just discovered QGIS released a new version.. and it’s a 2.0. I can’t wait to try it and check the new features!
ArcGIS 10 – How to insert the area into your land use map
I have been working on making land use maps and got stuck with mapping it. Since I have ArcGIS 10 for the job I’m doing, and the data I have is stored in *.lyr, I&hellip
QGIS 2.0 – first exploration
I finally got some map to make with QGIS, and so eventually had a proper look at the new version. The print composer has really changed, and so far it looks like it’s mainly improvements.&hellip