by rjhale | May 14, 2015 | Crowdsourcing, Do Some Good, Open Street Map, OSGEO, Social Media
Digital Humanitarian Meetup May 15, 2015 5:30Â – 7:30 p.m. Tin Lizzie’s (Emory Point) 1540 Avenue Place Atlanta, GA 30329 Meet & Greet. Share your experiences and knowledge Please join us for an informal meetup group to support humanitarians, digital...
by rjhale | Mar 5, 2015 | Crowdsourcing, process
So my GIS life went something like this: College – Cant’ find a job Internship for Cranky Gov’t agency Intership turns into Job in Mapping/Surveying/Photogrammetry I have to learn skills from Cranky Gov’t employees Consulting 16 years later...
by rjhale | Jan 16, 2015 | Crowdsourcing, Do Some Good, Open Street Map
I know I’m late on blogging – I’ve been busy. So today I’m officially removing my self imposed break from OpenStreetMap and making it the community map I want… Help the US, Ireland, and the Kingdom of Lesotho build a basemap in...
by rjhale | Aug 11, 2014 | Crowdsourcing, GIS, QGIS, Small Business
Pop quiz, hotshot. There’s a small company thinking about formally doing QGIS Support. Once he has enough answers the bomb might be armed. There are a crate full of live chickens on the bus headed towards a BBQ grill. WHAT DO YOU DO? – Apologies to Speed...
by rjhale | Apr 5, 2014 | Crowdsourcing, Do Some Good, Open Source GIS, Open Street Map, USGS
I’ve been taking a break from OpenStreetMap – the break is about over though. I started doing some digging this weekend on the National Map Corps. This is the USGS’s foray into Crowdsourcing. I thought it was something new – it’s been...
by rjhale | Nov 20, 2013 | Crowdsourcing, Disaster, Do Some Good, GIS, Open Street Map, Social Media
While I was sitting here last night beating my head trying to compile QGIS on a VM and I saw a post here – https://www.facebook.com/groups/osm.us/Â . David Smith had started editing in Washington Illinois. There’s been a lot of back and forth between...