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Welcome to the IPT blog!

September 15, 2016August 13, 2019 PSchwarzLeave a commentIPT News

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 Read More

Address Geocoding and How It Works

October 25, 2018August 13, 2019 PSchwarzLeave a commentLocation Analytics, Web Mappinggeocoding

Address Geocoding and How It Works Address geocoding can be defined as the process of obtaining geographical co-ordinates (latitude and longitude) for addresses and place names so that they can be mapped or subjected to location analysis. It works primarily Read More

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Enabling Location Analytics for Business

October 25, 2018August 13, 2019 PSchwarzLeave a commentLocation Analyticslocation analytics

Eight Steps for Enabling Location Analytics for Business Data Part of the mission for my company is to provide the tools for non-experts to create professional quality geographic analysis products from their own data. Many business people and other organizational Read More

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Geocode an Address in Map Posts

May 10, 2018August 13, 2019 PSchwarzLeave a commentIPT Product Tutorials, Open Source, Web Mapping, WordPress Pluginsgeocoding, Map Posts, wordpress

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, fine Read More

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Location Mapping on WordPress

February 25, 2018August 13, 2019 PSchwarzLeave a commentIPT Product Announcements, Web Mapping, WordPress Pluginsgeocoding, location blogging, Map Posts Free, Map Posts Pro, mapping, WordPress plugin

Associating a Blog Post Location with a Map Integrated Productivity Tools (IPT) is building a WordPress plugin that will allow authors to configure and add a map without ever leaving the post editor. Users can provide a location by manually Read More

That Don’t Look Right

March 21, 2017August 13, 2019 PSchwarzLeave a commentLocation Analytics, Open SourceCheck Geometries, QGIS, Topology Checker

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 Read More

Web Mapping Services for QGIS and Leaflet

February 25, 2017August 13, 2019 PSchwarzLeave a commentOpen Source, Web Mappingmap service, TMS, WFS, WMS, WMTS

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 Read More

On Nodes and Ways

February 13, 2017August 13, 2019 PSchwarzLeave a commentOpen Data, Open Source, Web Mappingmap service, open data, OpenStreetMap, OSM

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 Read More

Drawing the World and Building It

October 19, 2016August 13, 2019 PSchwarzLeave a commentOpen Data, Service Providers, Web Mappingcommercial data, data vendor, image service, map service, tile mapping

Last week I continued in my quest to identify suitable data providers for my own application use. Because of the limited capacity of OpenStreetMap (OSM) and other free data servers to accommodate high request volumes I decided to investigate commercial Read More

This Data is Not for Sale

October 12, 2016August 13, 2019 PSchwarzLeave a commentOpen Data, Service Providers, Web Mappingcommercial data, derivative database, open data, OpenStreetMap, OSM

As a small business bringing new untested products to market, I have to be mindful of a capped budget and the need to minimize expenses. Therefore whenever I can acquire something for free I take it. In this way I’ve Read More

The World is not Flat

September 20, 2016August 13, 2019 PSchwarzLeave a commentWeb MappingCoordinate Systems, Datum, Projections, Spheroids

Introduction to Datums and Projections I wrote this post because there seems to be a lot of confusion among casual users of GIS and other mapping applications around projections. The three take-away lessons I would like to share are: Projections Read More

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