The Big TN Conference Pt 2

The Big TN Conference Pt 2

…aaand I’m back home. So I’ve been to a lot of conferences. Some Good. Some Bad. This one was good. Better than I had hoped. So what was my main takeaway from it? They keynotes were a great contrast of people/computers. OSM is all about the people. I...
The Big Tn Conference

The Big Tn Conference

By the time you read this I will be sitting in the outskirts of Nashville Tennessee for the annual State Wide GIS Conference. I’ve attended this conference for the last 15 or so years off and on. There were come years I missed – some I went...
My So called Life as a Map Maker

My So called Life as a Map Maker

I can sum it up: It’s not much of one. Way back in my younger days I was infatuated with ArcPlot (which was the plotting portion of ArcINFO). From there I moved to Arcview, ArcMap, and eventually here to QGIS. All of my work typically revolves around Data. I...
Tricks with an ESRI File Geodatabase

Tricks with an ESRI File Geodatabase

A few years back I jumped in way over my head with QGIS/Postgis. I had moved a process out of one software and into my favorite two (QGIS/PostGIS) and little did I know the final output had to be a ESRI File Geodatabase. So what did I do? I shamed them into using a...
Making the Invalid Valid

Making the Invalid Valid

I could argue I’m doing that on multiple levels these days. Except I want to talk Geometry, QGIS, and Forks in the Road. I haven’t done just a “QGIS Tech Post” in a while. I talk about it and training and generalities but hardly dive into the...