Jakob Miksch

This blogpost gives in an introduction to GDAL/OGR and explains how the various command line tools can be used. GDAL/OGR is a library that can read many different vector and raster formats. It is written in C/C++ and is published under a Open Source licence. It can also be accessed with other programming languages like Python or R. There are numerous programs for the command line which will be described in more detail in this blog post. [Read More]

Based on the overwhelming response of the this tweet, I started a list of geospatial commandline tools.

It can be found in this git repository: https://github.com/JakobMiksch/geospatial-cli Everyone is welcome to use it and contribute. It is CC0 licensed.

OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a project that aims to create a common database for geodata. The data can be displayed on a map, but that is by far not its only purpose. Within the past years an ecosystem of programs, services and tools has evolved around OSM. This blog post explains the basic concepts of OpenStreetMap and gives an overview how to view, edit, download and process the data. You can also watch this presentation which covers the same topic. [Read More]

This blog post gives an overview of how to perform route planning 🏃 🚲 🚗 with OpenStreetMap (OSM) data. In beginning, some basics about route planning will be explained. Afterwards, the routing engines GraphHopper, pgRouting and the routing web service OpenRouteService will be described in more detail. OpenStreetMap is perfectly suited for route planning applications because the data quality of the street network is usually very satisfying. This has two reasons: Streets can easily be mapped from satellite imagery and GPS-tracks. [Read More]