Fixing a problem

Yesterday was wild. Flash back to 6 years ago and I transferred a ESRI Process over to QGIS/PostGIS and it happened to be a 911 addressing database. As I was walking out the door, the client said “So how do we deliver the data to the state” and through a...

Update to the ESRI File Geodatabase Post

So back in November I started talking about the new ability of QGIS to edit ESRI File Based Geodatabases. Technically it could before that date with an ESRI library add-on. Luckily more work went into the OpenFileGDB driver and here we are. I’m pretty sure when...

The Second Day of XYMas….GDAL

So going back to the college kids and the “OMG I gotta learn python”. It actually it helps if you do learn python. It will help your career and it’s always nice to know how to program in something…. BUT I will submit on this the second day of...

Know your data: e00 Files

Occasionally you’ll meet an e00 file.  Occasionally. It happens so infrequently you’ll probably see more eclipses than you’ll run into data in that format.You might see a bigfoot before you’ll see a e00 file. I saw one. Not a bigfoot but an...
FOSS4GNA 2019 – The Short Review

FOSS4GNA 2019 – The Short Review

I tend to spend probably more effort than I should telling people “Go to a FOSS4G Meeting”. I made my……(think..think… 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019) fifth North American Event. Six if you count Boston – but that was...
PostgreSQL Hack

PostgreSQL Hack

Many of you will look and go “OMG – Randy has a new hack for a database”. No – Randy is a hack at databases. So about 4 or 5 years ago I was dropped into the idea of databases. I was working a job several thousands miles to the south and life...