by rjhale | Mar 5, 2014 | ArcGIS Desktop, ESRI, Open Source GIS, QGIS
File based geodatabases….love them or hate them. I’ve done both. Back in 2009 I even did a two hour workshop on Switching to File Based Geodatabases and why this was the best thing ever. A question came up on the QGIS users list and it led to a slight...
by rjhale | Feb 17, 2014 | ArcGIS Desktop, GDAL, Imagery, QGIS
I guess I’ve been doing this way too long. I remember when pyramid layers on imagery was a bit “new” to those of us who had been plunking along with ArcINFO. I’ve seen a few mentions in various places I’ve been hanging out about “My...
by rjhale | Jan 19, 2014 | ArcGIS Desktop, ESRI, Open Source GIS
So I’ve been out of the lidar space for a while. At one point in my earlier career I was learning about photogrammetry with the some of the greats – and then life fortunately took me in a slightly different direction. I remember when lidar first first...
by rjhale | Dec 27, 2013 | ArcGIS Desktop, ESRI, Open Source GIS, postgis, Python, Rambling
I know this is old news as I just upgraded to ArcGIS 10.2. Whaaaaa?? BUT ALL YOU EVER TALK ABOUT IS QGIS?!?!!?? It’s true – I do use ArcGIS – It helps me more annoying. I know – I didn’t think it was possible either. Over the last year we...
by rjhale | Nov 21, 2013 | ArcGIS Desktop, Cartography, Data Driven Pages, Forestry
For those readers out there who don’t know this, I really love making maps. More accurately, I love finding better ways to convey information/data to different audiences using maps. So though I do enjoy the aesthetics of a nicely “drawn” map, most of...
by rjhale | Nov 17, 2013 | ArcGIS Desktop, QGIS, Training
On Friday November 15th 2013 we almost had a sold out QGIS class. It was partly the price (Carol had just created the 2.0 version (the price and the software) and we ran this as a low cost workshop for Georgia URISA) and it was partly curiosity about the software....
