A friend asked me to create an interactive map for her. The task was to show places of the democratic movement in Leipzig (Germany) that could later be hosted on a website (Don’t worry, you don’t need to know German to follow along). The map provides information about where these...

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  • June 25, 2023

Open Street Map (OSM) data can be a highly useful tool for obtaining spatial information about your local community. Next to its broad availability, it can be easily obtained via Python. This article shows you how to download OSM data as the one mapped below. The figure shows restaurants in...

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  • November 28, 2022

When traveling through Germany, you might gain the impression that many cities in a particular region have similar names. A pattern that emerged through historical and geographical circumstances. As the country was divided into many smaller entities over centuries, different regions developed their own dialects leading to specific wording. I...

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  • October 27, 2022