by rjhale | May 14, 2026 | Cartography, QGIS
A few posts ago I babbled about cartography. I’ve never had the patience for Cartography mainly because two things usually happen…well three things: the map can’t be bigger than 8×11 the map must have everything on it Make the map however you...
by rjhale | Apr 20, 2026 | Default
…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...
by rjhale | Apr 15, 2026 | nashville, Tennessee, TNGIC
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...
by rjhale | Apr 8, 2026 | Cartography, QGIS
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...
by rjhale | Mar 19, 2026 | GDAL, QGIS
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...
