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How to create a Table of Contents (TOC) from markdown for your React blog with Javascript without any third party dependencies.

This article will explain to you how you can create an Azure Storage Account, prepare AzCopy locally and how to create a bash script which will be used to copy your local Proxmox Backups via AzCopy to an Azure Storage Account by a cost effective way.

In this article I will explain how you can create a basic web map with Leaflet and React by using functional components without any third party packages. So i will strongly recommend to have a look at the Leaflet API reference.

Recently I implemented a custom cookie banner solution on my Next.js site which you probably have seen a few seconds before. There are a lot of prebuilt cookie banners you can use for React or Next js sites but i wanted to create a custom cookie banner which also has some personal touch and keeps the design with the website in line.

Some blogs have these related articles or posts sections where visitors can have a preview at more content after they just read a post. That's what I wanted to create for my personal website which is built with React (Nextjs) and in this article I want to show you how you also can do it for any other react application.

In this article I am going to explain, how you can implement Google Adsense in Next.js applications (or any other react applications). There are several approaches for implementing Adsense on a react site and I want to show you how you can add Adsense with privacy in mind.

With Gatsby 4 bringing in Server-Side Rendering (SSR) and Deferred Static Generation (DSG) you need an alternative methode to just hosting static files. Each page using SSR or DSG will be rendererd after a user requests it so there has be a server in the background which will handle these requests and build the pages if needed.

In this article i want to show you how you can build your own Mapnik stylesheet for displaying any data from PostgreSQL/PostGIS. The Mapnik Stylesheet XML can be used for a tile-server with your custom style.

Inspired by Aaron Parecki and who he has been tracking his location since 2008 with an iPhone app and a server side tracking API i decided to go for a similar approach. I wanted to track my position constantly with my Android smartphone and use the data to display a map with all locations i have ever been to.

Step-by-step guide explaining how to fetch data from Garmin Connect, store it in Strapi and visualize it with NextJS and React-Leaflet.

Prism.js is a compact, expandable syntax highlighter that was developed with modern web standards in mind.

This article shows you how can host your Next.js site on a (virtual private) server with Nginx, a CI/CD pipeline via PM2 and Github Webhooks.

Ultimate guide to automate your Gatsby builds with Google Cloud Build, deploying to Firebase and optional Cloud Scheduler.

This articles shows you how to edit, crop and resize your pictures with a little Python script.

Navigation devices, smartphones and weather forecasts are dependent on satellites and without these we have to rely on some services that make our everyday life easier.

FME (Feature Manipulation Engine) is a powerful and the most used spatial ETL tool for the migration and processing of spatial data and non-spatial data.

With the free tier for AWS you always get one active AWS code pipeline per month and 100 minutes of AWS code build per month with which you can create a CI / CD pipeline for a GatsbyJS site.

In general there are two possibilies to use Google Adsense on your GatsbyJS website Auto Ads and custom display blocks.Depending on whether you choose to include Adsense ads on certain spots or whether you will leave this job to the Google AI, you can choose one/and or the other.

With the ever increasing amount of data, the question arises at some point how it can be managed effectively. GIS databases are used here.

In order to be able to work with digital maps or information geodata, a geographic information system is used. With GIS, geodata can be recorded, edited, analyzed and displayed appropriately.

Here you will find a list of interesting and informative geographic and gis blogs.

Volunteering offers a good opportunity to develop personally and professionally. You can also get involved in a good cause. You can later pack the projects into a pretty portfolio and thus stand out from the competition with extra points when applying.

Podcasts are a great way to keep up to date with current developments. Best of all, you can listen to podcasts practically anywhere.

In this post you will find a list of free and/or open-source and proprietary GIS-software options which are commonly used

Managing your own newsletter is crucial for creating a sustainable online-business. With E-Mails you can build a relationsship with your audience and engage with them so they will drive some nice traffic to your new post or whatever you just have published and want to promote.

OpenLayers is a JavaScript library which allows you to visualize easily geodata in web applications (Web GIS).

Would you like to know which open source web GIS applications are used to share geodata over the Internet? Then you can find out more here.

OpenStreetMap is the largest international project that aims to create a free world map.

With the help of PyQGIS processes such as the export of images for all layers from a map can be automated.

Leaflet is a free JavaScript library that can be used to create web GIS applications. Leaflet uses HTML5, CSS3 and is compatible with all common browsers.

For all those who do not yet know the relevant contact points for current satellite images, there are a few links here where you can download satellite images from around the world, mostly free of charge.

With AWS (and in particular the free AWS contingent) you have the option of a static website with a custom domain for a few Hosting cents a month including CDN via CloudFront and CI/CD integration.

Difference between CAD and GIS data.

The shapefile format is a general format for storing vector data.

Geodata is information with a spatial reference that can be used in a GIS, among other things.

GIS refers to a system for displaying and processing spatial data, i.e. data to which a spatial location has been assigned.