Hello and welcome. Who am I and what is this blog ? My name is Peter Schwarz, and I am the owner of Integrated Productivity Tools (henceforth – IPT) and host for this blog. The blog is intended to do three things: Make announcements regarding IPT products and other...

Geocode an Address in Map Posts
How to Get Map Address Co-ordinates Using Map Posts Free Integrated Productivity Tools released version 1.1 of it’s WordPress plugin Map Posts Free yesterday. This tutorial provides a standard workflow for obtaining the latitude and longitude for an address,...

That Don’t Look Right
QC Adventures in QGIS Last week my goal was to prototype one base feature layer and using the lessons learned to define a standard process for all other layers. Part of this task was to define quality control standards and identify candidate tools for their...
Web Mapping Services for QGIS and Leaflet
Offering the World The following is to some extent a continuation of my previous post. In addition to implementing my own styles and filtering I also wanted to investigate using web mapping protocols other then Tile Mapping (TMS – Tile Mapping Service). TMS is the...
On Nodes and Ways
OSM Data Structure This post presents a description of the OpenStreetMap (OSM) data structure and some implications for users. References are mostly from that organization’s wiki. What I intend to provide is: A short, precise definition of the data...
