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. New challenges have been thrown our way, changing the way

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 Unsplash After a week of discussing what citizen science means

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 the product of an interaction between humans and the environment.

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 single words chiselling away at our long-term memory to sculpt

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 these do not always serve the purpose of the map.