Tag: GIS

  • Socio-spatial secondary data source for all over the world

    In this post I want to echo this fantastic source of socio-spatial data, perfect for your GIS analysis in most of the countries all over the world The files have been created from OpenStreetMap dataand are licensed under the Open Database 1.0 License. Seewww.openstreetmap.org for details about the project. This file contains data as of…

  • What UTM Zone am I in ? Nice tool

    Click on the map or use the Geolocate button to find out which UTM zone you are in.

  • European regional Statistics Illustrated

    Today I stumbled across this sophisticate Eurostat tool that allow map social and economic data by European regions. It is similar to the one I commented in an earlier post, also from Eurostat. But what I like most here is the possibility to visualize data in a variety of charts such as distribution plot, scatter plot, bar chart or…

  • Interactive maps

    The representation of data into maps is for me one of the best ways to illustrate the reality we address. I am glad to share here rMaps, an application to create, customize and share interactive maps from R, with a few lines of code. It supports several javascript based mapping libraries like Leaflet, DataMaps and Crosslet,…