Today I’m going to write about collecting the coordinates, heading, speed and date/time of a ship of interest. After collecting the data I’m going to visualize the data in QGIS. What am I going to do? I’m going to build a tracking device for vesselfinder.com. Writing a tool in python If you have a Raspberry PI…

Earlier this week I read a news article about a ghost house somewhere in The Netherlands. One of the neighbouring residents was interviewed about the issues they face lately. The next thing I read triggered my inner geospatial curiosity. Why??? Because the neighbour was told he wouldn’t tell the exact…

Today I’m going to explain how I solved the Berlin quest from Til Man. But before I go any further I want to mention that @nixintel solved the quest already on November 16th (https://nixintel.info/osint/using-flight-tracking-for-geolocation-quiztime-30th-october-2019/). The Quest A very simple question, a not so easy solution.. …

Earlier today i was challenged by MCantow to solve a airphoto with the overpass API. Although i know it is possible to solve the quest, i was not able to do so. To solve it i had to use QGIS. In theory both are working with the same data and…

In a previous article i wrote about how to use OSM and query the OSM dataset online. It works very well, however i like to use QGIS for my challenges. In this article i will describe the steps for creating a QGIS installation with the required addons. What is QGIS? …

How can you find a specific location somewhere in the world using the overpass API from openstreetmap. I will explain how to a specific location in the Netherlands using the overpass API. Case: Find the locations