In a previous post I talked about my aunt that died and we couldn't find the cemetery. Found it! Welcome to the Bethel Cemetery. I will tip my hat to the inherent creepiness of the whole thing. Who is rising second? So I want to add cemeteries to OSM. In my first...
It's been a while since I've done a QGIS US meeting. Part of it was burnout and part I've been busy with work and life. So we're talking projections tomorrow. Proj is a bigger project than just QGIS - but it's nice to know how that project is moving along. Meeting...
So my first confession will be: I gave up on mapping graves in cemeteries. There's a cemetery up the road from my current location and I wanted to map all the residents with the finest location equipment and databases and maps.......and it just didn't work out. I...
Above is a map from the 2026 Geohipster Calendar by Antonio Smith - Noteworthy because it's East Tennessee. The 2027 Geohipster calendar is now accepting admissions. You may think "Well it's a bunch of open source weirdos over at Geohipster" and you could be right -...
I was asked today how I rated this trip and I give it an 8 out of 10. As I was telling people in class it's been "Pre-Katrina" since I was in Louisiana. I'm actually down here training people on using QGIS. It's been a while since I did the 8 hour intro class. It's...
Through a long series of events I found myself teaching QGIS in a classroom again. It's been a while. I used to just "hold" classes and sometime during the pandemic I jsut stopped. Occasionally I'll get a call for 3 or 4 people that want training but generally I've...
I had mentioned it some but it's probably been coming up on 6 months since I even mentioned training. Right before I decided to attempt to die in 2025 I had started building a training website at training.northrivergeographic.com. Basically it's my Intro to QGIS class...
I've been trying to stop once a week and do something fun with QGIS. Post Heart Incident I do a lot of walking. I've been re-exploring some places I used to go in town to exercise and one is the TN River Walk. I realized the other day I needed to do some OpenStreetMap...
I said at the start of the year I wanted to blog once a week. I've been simplifying my website and I just want to put "more stuff" out there. Some posts may be work related - some may not be. So this isn't work - but it is work: QGIS-US. I've not said a ton about the...
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 8x11 the map must have everything on it Make the map however you want except we will...
...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 had no clue how...
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 joyfully...some I just...
