by rjhale | May 11, 2016 | Education, GIS Tutorials, QGIS, Training
OK – so as part of my digestion of last weeks FOSS4GNAÂ 2016 conference I had a couple of suggestions from people that tool the QGIS class or had taken it before. Why not do it online? Well – I did last year. It sucked. I did a self paced course and the...
by rjhale | May 8, 2016 | Cartography, Education, FOSS4G, GIS, 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 | Jan 12, 2016 | Atlanta, Education, GA URISA, Georgia
If you are in Atlanta on January 19th 2016. No registration is required – just show up and have an adult beverage. Location: Fado Irish Pub / 933 Peachtree Street NE Speaker: Tony Giarrusso, Senior Research Scientist and Associate Director of the Center for GIS...
by rjhale | Nov 5, 2015 | Atlanta, Do Some Good, Education, Georgia
November 10th 2015 at 11:30 “Going Places with Geospatial Technologies in The Urban Geospatial STEM Academy with Community GIS” The Urban Geospatial STEM Academy seeks to transform geospatial technology learning in high school students by placing emphasis...
by rjhale | Aug 27, 2015 | Education, GA URISA, Open Source GIS
Teaching is one of those things I hate and love all at the same time. I taught the Intro to QGIS class this week for Georgia URISA. It doesn’t get taught as much as you think – a lot of times people still brush it off as “that other stuff that...
by rjhale | May 30, 2015 | Do Some Good, Education, GIS, Open Street Map, OSGEO
So in today’s “Learn something new” and “don’t limit yourself to one tool” – gvSIG. I’m horrible about finding something thought and wearing it out. I did that with ArcGIS/ArcINFO for the first 23 (Holy Crap) years and...