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TN 911 Project and Network Analysis

TN 911 Project and Network Analysis

About 2 months ago I was speaking on the TN 911 database project and did a quick demo and promptly forgot about half of the demo once I walked away from the podium. One thing covered was the network tools in QGIS. 5 years ago (maybe more) I was asked by a local county...

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Addressing Ramblings

I'm preparing to rollout the "new and improved" TN 911 database to a client. I've been working on it as time permits and I'm at a point where "it's done". You can deploy it and run it and life is good. Now the question is "can I add in some scripts to make your life...

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QGIS: Tips and Tricks

A new class. A new 4 hour class I should say. The FOSS4GNA call for papers/workshops is currently ongoing. I've decided to change things up a bit and not submit an intro class but try a "QGIS: Tips and Tricks" class. That was my submission and hopefully it gets some...

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QGIS 3.30: Text Widget

The fun continues as I walk though the change log for qgis 3.30. I'm running a bit behind - So lets talk widgets. QGIS introduces new widgets to help in data entry. Lets talk about the Text Widget. The TN911 project is starting to get some complicated menus and one...

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QGIS 3.30: RAT

I'm behind. I feel like Raster Attribute Tables have been a thing and I've not had to use them so I just ignore it. After doing a bit of digging it looks like this has been a thing in QGIS and ESRI Software since about 2018/2019. I grabbed the National Landcover...

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QGIS 3.30: Global Map Terrain

QGIS 3.30: Global Map Terrain

Did you ever get writers block? I did..well and still do. So after spending a few weeks "stuck" - I've decided to work my way through (as much as I can) the changelog for QGIS 3.30. I may talk later on "small business owner's block" (at least that's what I call it)....

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Bike lanes for Fun and OSM

Bike lanes for Fun and OSM

Flash back 12 or more years ago and I was siting with a new found group mapping Bike and Bus "things" into OpenStreetMap in Chattanooga. About the only thing I remember is we tagged designated lanes as "CHA:bicycle=designated". It was a lot of fun and ultimately...

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Mobile on the TN911 Project

So with everything else that's been happening this week I decided to try out one more thing on this project and that was Mergin Maps. I've been reformatting the whole project to make it simpler. Right now I have a working database, almost working wiki page, and menus...

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Update on the TN 911 Database

Update on the TN 911 Database

I haven't talked about this in a while - but incremental work continues. So I had a question "Can you get the NENA 911 Standard working in QGIS?" The answer is a long "Yes". NENA has published a repository with a postgresql portion - and in two scripts you have a...

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Update to the ESRI File Geodatabase Post

So back in November I started talking about the new ability of QGIS to edit ESRI File Based Geodatabases. Technically it could before that date with an ESRI library add-on. Luckily more work went into the OpenFileGDB driver and here we are. I'm pretty sure when I...

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Mergin Maps at TNGIC April 11th-13th 2023

Mergin Maps at TNGIC April 11th-13th 2023

So in other news - I'm a partner with Mergin Maps. I also mentioned this is the year I'm providing an offramp for the ArcMap users. So to cover even more bases - NRGS is headed to Memphis for the Annual TNGIC Conference. We will be teaching a workshop on Day 1 (April...

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Exploring QGIS Class – March 22-23 2023

Exploring QGIS Class – March 22-23 2023

The Exploring (Intro) to QGIS class is coming March 22-23 2023. Two things are happening this go around with the class: updating it to 3.28 and you're getting some new chapters. The whole plan for the class is to get you up and moving and using QGIS. I've always taken...

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