SmartQueryTools – Query, Convert & Join Data Files In Your Browser
Run SQL on a CSV, convert Parquet to Excel, profile and join data files – hundreds of free tools that run entirely in your browser. No uploads, no account.
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NZ Elevation Tools – LiDAR Elevation Data For All Of New Zealand
Click anywhere in New Zealand for an exact LiDAR elevation, draw terrain profiles, and explore the whole country in 2D or 3D. Powered by LINZ LiDAR.
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Hunting NZ – Public Land Maps, Species & Seasons For New Zealand
One interactive map of New Zealand public hunting land: conservation land, hunting blocks, tracks, huts, and species distributions, plus guides for every game animal.
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Folding Globes – Print, Cut & Fold Your Own Paper Globe
Design a paper globe from real map data, then print, cut, and fold it. Ten shapes, three map styles, and you can pin your own places on it before you print.
Read MoreTurning Aerial Imagery Into a Searchable World
Vexcel isn’t a household name — but you’ve almost certainly used their data. This aerial imaging company flies low-elevation aircraft across roughly 45 countries, capturing imagery at 7.5cm resolution from five different angles (straight down plus four oblique views), building one of the richest geospatial datasets on Earth. In this episode, Daniel talks with Steve…
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Cloud Native for the Rest of Us
What happens when you take cloud native geospatial out of the satellite-and-petabyte world and drop it into a small city with no budget and the world’s slowest internet connection? In this episode, Daniel talks with Nissim Lebovits, a city planner turned geospatial data scientist, about his nine months in Argentina building climate risk tools for…
Read MoreMapping With 360 Cameras
Jeffrey Martin is the co-founder and CEO of Mosaic, a company building 360-degree camera systems designed specifically for mapping. He’s been obsessed with 360 imagery for over 20 years — he built one of the first websites combining panoramic images with a map back in 2005, before Google Street View existed, and he holds a…
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Can I Ride: Forecasting Mountain Bike Trail Conditions
A guest post by Craig Calvert on Can I Ride, a web app that forecasts mountain bike trail conditions across the US using weather and hydrology data.
Read MoreBearing vs Azimuth: The Difference, and How to Convert Between Them
Azimuth runs 0–360° clockwise from north; bearing conventions vary by field — and GIS libraries use a third convention entirely. How to convert without sign errors.
Read MoreHow to Download OpenStreetMap Data for Any Area (Buildings, Roads, POIs)
Four practical ways to extract OpenStreetMap data — buildings, roads, points of interest — for a specific area, and how to get it into shapefile, GeoPackage or MBTiles.
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