by rjhale | Apr 27, 2015 | ArcGIS Desktop, QGIS, Training, Tutorial
How did I end with this blog post. I’m using QGIS for about 90% of my GIS work these days and I spent about 6 hours digitizing some fairly complicated land cover. Out of that – you get the following….. It was always one of the things that was hard to...
by rjhale | Jan 10, 2015 | arcgis, ArcGIS Desktop, ESRI, Training
Out of everything I need to be doing currently….I’ll talk about this for 10 minutes. In a past life I was an ESRI ATP that quickly morphed into a CTP. Sometime back in 2013 I let all my credentials lapse because as we were told CTP was only on life...
by rjhale | Dec 21, 2014 | ArcGIS Desktop, Open Source GIS, postgis, QGIS
It’s been about a year since this project “appeared” and it was first done in ArcGIS. It wasn’t much fun (not because of ArcGIS). The part that made it “not fun” was the “Oh by the ways”. NRGS would deliver a map and get...
by rjhale | Dec 10, 2014 | ArcGIS Desktop, Training, Tutorial
In my past life I was a ESRI ATP/CTP. I’ve really been shying away from ArcGIS training. My heart lies in QGIS currently if I have to train or do anything in that arena. So I had a client call and needed an introduction to arcgis. I’m not officially...
by rjhale | Dec 8, 2014 | ArcGIS Desktop, Open Source GIS, QGIS
In my washout geology career…..computers were paperweights. We had to make maps – so we would make them. HAND DRAWN MAPS…or we drafted them on 1:24000 maps so we didn’t have to worry about scale and north arrows. So I’m up to Part 2 of...
by rjhale | Dec 6, 2014 | ArcGIS Desktop, postgis, QGIS
As I sit here starting to lay out this transition I decided I’d better start scribbling a few things down. This isn’t done to make much of a statement. This is mostly trying to fix a problem. As I’ve been said in a recent presentation I made –...
