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Daniel van der Maas

Fetching free elevation data

There is many instances where you might be needing elevation information for your scripts or for an app you might be developing. In this…

Mar 12

Fetching free elevation data

Mar 12

Daniel van der Maas

Adding Data to Ellipsis Drive in Bulk

Ellipsis Drive is an out of the box solution to publish spatial files as web services. It can be thought of as a serviced GeoServer…

Mar 11

Mar 11

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Python in Plain English

Visualizing Point Clouds with Python

In this article I will demonstrate how to visualize point clouds in Python using the three most common strategies: 1. Visualize as a point…

Oct 25, 2023

Visualizing Point Clouds with Python

Oct 25, 2023

Daniel van der Maas

Urban heat modelling; A practical way to improve lives

It probably has not escaped you. You can read it in the headlines every day. The current month is the hottest month ever recorded. Never…

Jul 24, 2023

Urban heat modelling; A practical way to improve lives

Jul 24, 2023

Daniel van der Maas

How to: Manage your spatial data to make analytics easy

Extracting value from spatial data is very time-consuming. As spatial data is growing faster than legacy systems can handle, accessibility…

May 18, 2023

How to: Manage your spatial data to make analytics easy

May 18, 2023

Daniel van der Maas

The 10 best free-to-use map layers

Whenever you are visualizing GIS data you are likely to use some base layer as a background. Nine out of ten times you would probably be…

May 8, 2023

The 10 best free-to-use map layers

May 8, 2023

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Better Programming

Storing Your Python Objects in the Cloud

Share underlying data without the user needing to download that data manually

Apr 19, 2023

Storing Your Python Objects in the Cloud

Apr 19, 2023

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Python in Plain English

Creating beautiful Hexagon maps with Python

A popular way of visualising GIS data is by means of hexagons. With a group of hexagons you can cover a region of your choosing and style…

Apr 3, 2023

Creating beautiful Hexagon maps with Python

Apr 3, 2023

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Microsoft Power BI

How to display an advanced map in Power BI

Displaying GIS data in your Power BI dashboard can be an absolute nightmare. There are fewer features than you would like and you can…

Mar 29, 2023

How to display an advanced map in Power BI

Mar 29, 2023

Daniel van der Maas
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Python in Plain English

How to Visualize Your Geopandas as an Interactive Map

A Geopandas data frame is the Python data structure of choice to perform vector analysis. A Geopandas is basically the marriage between…

Mar 22, 2023

How to Visualize Your Geopandas as an Interactive Map

Mar 22, 2023

Daniel van der Maas

Daniel van der Maas

As CTO of Ellipsis Drive it's my mission to make spatial data useable for developers and data scientists. https://ellipsis-drive.com/

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