Tag: EOX::Maps

s2maps.eu stumbling into half a million visitors

September 25, 2017Stephan MeißlEOX General, EOX Maps

How it happened and what we learned. On Friday, August 18, thanks to Joachim’s great work, we announced our worldwide Sentinel-2 cloudless map and were quite happy about a couple of hundreds of visitors over the next days. First global […]

Sentinel-2 global cloudless mosaic

August 18, 2017JoachimEOX Maps

Good news everyone: The first global, (almost) cloudfree mosaic of the world is released! Have a look at https://s2maps.eu. In March during the Sentinel-2B launch we released a cloudless mosaic covering Europe. The initial release helped us to identify weak […]

Curved labels

December 2, 2015JoachimEOX Maps

Back in my cartography class, in the mid-2000s, we were told to avoid non-horizontal labels in digital maps where possible, in order not to lose the map’s legibility. While there is some truth in it, curved labels – carefully placed […]