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Working in GIS using free software like QGIS is a something, but integrate it with the most popular data science language is something else. Almost all of Remote Sensing and GIS software have implemented Python integration these days, but sometimes those features hidden in the user interface. If you are familiar with python, you must be know that python has something GIS software cant provide. And this state we have an urge to why not use both of them?, here is how to install thid party python libraries to QGIS which is sometimes not all of available python libraries already installed in default QGIS python configuration. 

Route planning is one activity that may be almost everyone in this world doing in every day basis. Either plan a trip to certain tourism destination or simply looking for a route to nearest mart, it is a part of daily activities. Take Google Maps routing features as an example. It is being used by many people to plan and guide the trip activities. It is so easy to use even non GIS person can do route analysis without needed for understanding about Geography and GIS.  Plan a trip route is something, but flexibility to use the created route is another matter. You can only uses Google Maps Routing services inside a google maps apps or web. This situation is also similar with other online trip planner tools. Now what if we needs to uses the created route to another apps or devices, may be you want to put the route generated in Google Maps into your GPS handheld, so you can directly navigate your route using your own preferred device. This is also something that easily you can do. With ...

Dropbox, surprisingly could be used to host a static web page. There are other providers too like Google Drive. But its capabilities will be discontinued after August 2016. And by the this functionality, we can host a simple webmap (or little bit complex, I dont know, didnt test it yet) using this service. The hosting procedure is quite easy, 1. Make a dropbox account and login 2. Looks for "Public" folder and make a directory there. 3. Write your own webmap, for example I copy an html file somewhere, and edit it to include my Mapbox webmap into its DIV Tag, then I just place the html to the directory created on step 2. The code looks like this : 4. Save it to Html and place to the directory on the step 2. 5.  Then left clik on it, > Looks for "Copy Public Link" 6. Paste into browser. 7. Click this LINK to see how the code in step 3 looks like