The Shape of your Notes

The Shape of your Notes is a blogpost/project right up my alley. It starts of talking about note taking, but then quickly transforms into a journey into geodata: isolines, GDAL, PostGIS, QGIS, etc. The result is a lovely notebook, with a neat – and correct – print of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull on the cover. The Shape …

Planetary.js – Awesome interactive globes for the web

Planetary.js is a JavaScript library for building awesome interactive globes. It is based on D3.js and TopoJSON and has built-in support for zoom, rotation, mouse interaction, and displaying animated “pings” at any coordinate. Via plugins, Planetary.js can be extended to do whatever you want! Planetary.js → Planetary.js Seismic Activity Demo →

Google Maps JavaScript API Cookbook

Last November I was lead technical reviewer for a book titled Google Maps JavaScript API Cookbook. On December 26th – my birthday, of all days – the book was released on Packt Publishing. It’s a very practical book with lots of code (hence it being a cookbook) touching basic map interactions, custom layers, drawing stuff …

Photoshop Google Maps Tile Cutter Script Update (Again)

Five days after the previous update PS_BRAMUS.GoogleMapsTileCutter — a Photoshop Script which automatically chops up a large image into tiles for use with Google Maps — has been updated again. With this new version one can now choose to place all tiles into one and the same folder (as it was before), or use subfolders …

Trimble UX5 Aerial Imaging Solution

Engineered to help mapping and surveying professionals who require the highest accuracy work more efficiently, the Trimble UX5 sets a new standard in mapping and surveying by combining a robust and highly user-friendly system with a custom-designed camera that offers the most impressive deliverables. Made in Belgium Trimble UX5, A new standard in mapping →

Photoshop Google Maps Tile Cutter Script Update

It’s been 1.5 years already since I created PS_BRAMUS.GoogleMapsTileCutter, a Photoshop Script which automatically chops up a large image into tiles for use with Google Maps. Today a huge update was released. Sparked by an initial pull request by Nick Springer, PS_BRAMUS.GoogleMapsTileCutter now sports a UI dialog in which you can set the options before …