Are you wondering what tools you, as an enthusiastic up an coming researcher, will make your life easier? Are you on the lookout for an upgrade to your cloud storage or your reference manager? Being a geeky researcher in an interdisciplinary field, I have tried out many tools, applications and approaches to doing science or …
How To Science – My favourite tools for research Read More »
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The world is a multidimensional collage of people, perceptions and places, stitched into the fabric of time. Individual threads intertwining and splicing into senses, perceptions, associations and preferences. How we as individuals experience the world, specifically the (in)finite variety of landscapes constituting our world, not only forms attitudes and opinions, but directly influences our mental …
Window Expeditions: Mystical landscapes and where to find them Read More »
Since early this year, the world has collectively experienced an extraordinary transition. Nothing new to humankind, but new for many. We had to adjust to new rules and regulations about how we interact with others. We had to worry about friends and relatives, about our livelihoods and financial situations, about many a thing, often alone. …
Last week I attended the Citizen Science Winter School (#cswinterschool) organised by the Participatory Research Academy and the Graduate Campus of the University of Zurich. Here is me “giving my mustard” as we would say in Swiss German aka “my two cents” for the more international readers. [ TL;DR ] Photo by Oleg Laptev on …
Citizen Science Winter School – Of Ivory Towers and Building Bridges Read More »
The landscapes we interact with on a daily basis influence not only our behaviour but also our physical and mental well-being [1]. For example, providing access to “green lungs” in the form of urban parks, was already considered important in the 19th century. However, landscapes are not just static arrangements of physical objects, but rather …
Every geographer and geographic information scientist has heard the phrase “everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things” at one point in his or her career. Some have even had to endure the determined repetition of this one phrase in nigh every lecture, every workshop, every colloquium, the …
As a windsurfer, I am particularly interested in good spatial visualisations concerning wind including wind speeds and the wind direction. Wind barbs were invented to be the standard of visualising wind, but to my disappointment, leaflet offered no plugin to create wind barbs. I could have just loaded individual images as markers, but I wanted …
For some time now it has bugged me that there are no interpolation plugins for Leaflet. I believe that future mapping and GIS tasks will increasingly be performed in the cloud or on the fly in web applications, therefore an IDW plugin can become quite useful for Leaflet. There are a few heatmap plugins, but …
Inverse Distance Weighting in Leaflet – Leaflet.idw Read More »
Over the past few weeks I have been looking into Neo4j Spatial and PostGIS, the spatial plugin for Postgres. The starting point was, that I needed to store and access naturally tessellated tiles or cells, each with an extent of 100m X 100m in an area of around 370km X 240km, equalling a total of …