by rjhale | May 8, 2016 | Cartography, Education, FOSS4G, North Carolina, Open Source GIS, OSGEO
It’s over. As one friend pointed out there are something like 4 stages of conference attendance: Go for the Tech Go for the Friends Go for Free Beer You Stop Going On most everything I’m at 4. It takes a lot to drag me to a conference these days. I think...
by rjhale | Apr 20, 2016 | Atlanta, Cartography, GA URISA, Georgia
…and from Georgia URISA: Hello Students! Announcing our “Online Map Competition” This map competition it is an opportunity for Georgia University/College students to share their best maps with others who appreciate quality cartography, innovation and finally get...
by rjhale | Apr 4, 2016 | Cartography, QGIS
You’re sitting in a class…..back up – You’re teaching a class and and someone goes “Hey – there’s this QGIS Label Toolbar. How do it work?”. I’m probably better at making a map than I believe. I really don’t...
by rjhale | Feb 29, 2016 | Cartography, FOSS4G, GDAL, North Carolina, Open Source GIS, Open Street Map, OSGEO, postgis, Python, QGIS, spatialite
Emails are flying so I wanted to throw something up here Confession: I’m on the conference committee. The final count came down to these numbers: 93 full talks, 36 half talks, 10 workshops, and 3 keynotes. You may look at this and go “OMG they are going to...
by rjhale | Aug 21, 2015 | Cartography, Data Driven Pages, Open Source GIS, postgis, QGIS
I didn’t mispellll Atlas in the title. For those of you who might want to catch up: Symbology Map Composer Atlas Part 1 So I started this 6 months ago….and I’m just getting around to finishing it. Why so long? Client wasn’t in a hurry for new...
by rjhale | Apr 12, 2015 | arcgis, Cartography, QGIS
I spend a ton of time talking about QGIS up here. I like QGIS. I like GIS in general and there are some days I wonder if I’m unintentionally ignoring the ESRI side of life. Actually I don’t for clients – 20+ years of Using ESRI software leaves me in...
