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...
by rjhale | Mar 1, 2015 | Cartography, QGIS
I drove to NCGIS Thursday…and back. I think in total I did 600+ miles to give a presentation. Why? Well I promised and it gave me a bit of time to sit and think. Technically about 13 hours worth of time. I did a “This is QGIS” talk at the conference....
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...