This repository contains a curated list of internal and external resources around urbanism specific questions. The structure of the repository is aligned with the four learning lines of spatial data and GIS education taught in the urbanism department at TU Delft.
(Mapping? Generating Maps? Basics?)(but this also includes general tutorials?)
- QGIS Tutorials - Structured QGIS tutorials covering basics.
- Spatial Thoughts - An introductory course that covers QGIS from the very basics. You will learn how to use QGIS for mapping, spatial data processing and spatial analysis.
- 3D geoinformation research group @ TU Delft - A youTube channel aimed at creating geoinformation video tutorials, created by the 3D geoinformation research group.
- Open Source Options - Tutorial on how to Download High resolution Landsat and Sentinel Images for Free
- QGIS TOI-Pedia - A digital repository by TUDelft with QGIS tutorials
- Breda University Guide - A webpage with answers to basic QGIS FAQs and relevant literature
- Visibility Analysis - How to create a Visibility Analysis with QGIS
- Viewshed Analysis - Video tutorial on how to use the Visibility Analysis plugin to create a viewshed from view points.
- QGIS Training video Tutorials: Using Spatial Data in Geographic Information Systems - A youtube playlist containing a sequence of video tutorials on using QGIS for spatial analysis.
- Multi Criteria Overlay Analysis - Tutorial on multi-criteria weighted-overlay analysis: the process of the allocating areas on the basis of a variety of attributes that the selected areas should possess.
- Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis and GIS - A tutorial on multi-criteria decision analysis and GIS
- Open Source Options - Tutorial on how to Create Contour Lines and Labels with QGIS
- GEODOSE Contour lines tutorial - How to Create Contour Lines in QGIS
- QGIS Tutorials - Steps to generate various maps from elevation data such as hillshade and contour.
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- QGIS Geoprocessing tools video tutorial - Video tutorial explaining basics of geoprocessing tools in QGIS.
- The 7 Essential Geoprocessing tools - An article explaining the seven essential geoprocessing tools.
- QGIS Vector Menu - List of functions and commands of the QGIS vector menu.
- Geoprocessing Tools video tutorial (Part 1) - Video tutorial on geoprocessing
- Geoprocessing Tools video tutorial (Part 1) - Video tutorial on geoprocessing
- Copernicus - Calculating UHI - Manual on how to calculate Urban Heat Island with Sentinel-3
- 3D Geoinformation - MSc Geomatics courses
- DEM in QGIS - Video tutorial on Digital Elevation Model (DEM) 3D Visualization in QGIS.
- QGIS Terrain Analysis - Video tutorial on QGIS Terrain Analysis: hillshade, slope, aspect
- Digital Elevation Models and the Raster Calculator video tutorial - Video tutorial explaining common tools and derivatives of digital elevation models (DEMs) and how to use the Raster Calculator to select and combine rasters.
- Spatial Morphology Group - Place Syntax Tool download and tutorial
- Space Syntax - Spatial & Network Analysis software is available to professional practitioners and academic researchers for commercial and non-commercial use.
- River Stream Hierarchy Tutorial - A video tutorial on river streams order network mapping in QGIS based on vector topology.
- RAWGraphs - A free and open source tool for data visualization
- flowmap-blue - Create geographic flow maps representing your data published in Google Sheets. Visualize numbers of movements between locations (origin-destination data).
- Kepler - Kepler is a data agnostic, WebGL empowered, high-performance web application for geospatial analytic visualizations.
- NASA Earth Data - The Earth Science Data Systems (ESDS) Program provides full and open access to NASA’s collection of Earth science data.
- Natural Earth - Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110 million scales. Featuring tightly integrated vector and raster data, with Natural Earth you can make a variety of visually pleasing, well-crafted maps with cartography or GIS software.
- Geospatial Conservation Atlas - Includes web maps, apps, a map gallery, local initiative portals, conservation data, and other resources.
- National Centers for Environmental Information - Maps and data from across scientific disciplines, formats, time periods, and locations
- Global Forest Change - Results from time-series analysis of Landsat images characterizing forest extent and change.
- NEO Active Fires - Maps showing locations of actively burning fires around the world, detected by instruments aboard NASA satellites
- Global Forest Watch - Global forest monitoring
- FAO Hand-in-Hand Geospatial Platform - This Digital Public Good provides open-access geographic information, key food security indicators and agricultural statistics sourced from FAO and from external organizations such as NGOs, academia, the private sector, and space agencies.
- EarthStat EarthStat serves geographic data sets that help solve the grand challenge of feeding a growing global population while reducing agriculture’s impact on the environment.
- Resource Watch - Resource Watch features hundreds of data sets all in one place on the state of the planet’s resources and citizens
- Story Maps - Base map of the Netherlands Natural System
- Provincie Zuid-Holland, Bodematlas - Soil atlas of the Netherlands
- Corine Land Cover - European Land Cover Database generated by the Land Monitoring Core Service (LMCS) of Copernicus, the European flagship programme on Earth Observation.
- AHN-Viewer - Height map of the Netherlands
- OpenStreetMap - OpenStreetMap is the free wiki world map. This colloborative project is one of the largest databases of volunteered geographic information in the world. Its contents include points of interest, routable networks, and other geodata.
- BBBike - Provides shapefiles and raw OSM format for cities around the world, extracted weekly. This is useful if you are looking for data extracts for a single city.
- Geofabrik - OpenStreetMap extracts prepared in either PBF or shapefile format for download daily.
- MetroExtracts - Each day, OSM Extracts by Interline mirrors the entire OpenStreetMap planet and creates city and region sized extracts ready for download into formats ready for GIS.
- OverpassTurbo - Overpass Turbo is a web-based data mining tool for OpenStreetMap. It runs any kind of Overpass API query, shows the results on an interactive map, and allows users to export query data in the form of GeoJSON files (which may be converted to Shapefiles). It also provides helpful support for new users in the form of the "Wizard" tool. Using Overpass Turbo, you can query virtually any location globally using dedicated tags in Open Street Map.
- ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World - ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World is the foremost collection of geographic information from around the globe. It includes maps, apps, and data layers to support your work.
- SIRI - SIRI is a CEN Technical Standard that specifies a European interface standard for exchanging information about the planned, current or projected performance of real-time public transport operations between different computer systems.
- SharedStreets - SharedStreets Referencing System is a global, non-proprietary linear referencing system for describing streets maintained by SharedStreets. Additional Information: GitHub
- GTFS - The General Transit Feed Specification is a popular standard for describing transit systems.
- NeTEx - Network Timetable Exchange is a European standard to exchange standardized time tables and other system characteristics used to describe transit systems.
- GTFS-RT - This standard provides users transit data updates in real time greatly enhances their experience of transit services.
- shared-row - A data specification for representing street right of ways.
- GBFS - The General Bikeshare Feed Specification is a standardized data feed for shared mobility system availability.
- MDS - The Mobility Data Specification is a data standard to enable communication between mobility companies and local governments.
- MTLFS - The Managed and Tolled Lanes Feed Specification is intended to be used by the managed lanes and toll industry for the standardization and sharing of dynamic toll rates, and any managed lane purpose including but not limited to, ramp metering, bus only lanes, express lanes, especially if the resources are being priced dynamically.
- GMNS - The General Modeling Network Specification defines a common human and machine readable format for sharing routable road network files.
- David Rumsey Map Collection - The David Rumsey Map collection includes historic atlases, pocket maps, books of exploration, maritime charts, and a variety of cartographic materials including manuscript maps, ranging in date from around 1550 to the present.
- Topotijdreis - Detailed map of the Netherlands dating back to 1815.
- World Imagery Wayback - Wayback imagery is a digital archive of the World Imagery basemap, enabling users to access different versions of World Imagery captured over the years.
- Old Maps Online - Indexes over 400.000 historical maps.
- Copernicus Global Land Service - Maps including spatial information on different classes of physical coverage of the Earth's surface.
- GHSL - Global Human Settlement Layer - Open and free data and tools for assessing the human presence on the planet
- WHO Data - The World Health Organization's (WHO) health data collections featuring international datasets on health indicators and related data.
- QGIS TOI-Pedia - A digital repository by TUDelft with QGIS tutorials
- QGIS Tutorials and Tips - QGIS Tutorials and Tips
- QGIS Training Manual - A digital QGIS training manual