by rjhale | Mar 19, 2026 | GDAL, QGIS
A few years back I jumped in way over my head with QGIS/Postgis. I had moved a process out of one software and into my favorite two (QGIS/PostGIS) and little did I know the final output had to be a ESRI File Geodatabase. So what did I do? I shamed them into using a...
by rjhale | May 21, 2024 | 911, GDAL
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...
by rjhale | Feb 22, 2023 | ESRI, GDAL, QGIS
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...
by rjhale | Dec 16, 2019 | GDAL, OSGEO, Python
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...
by rjhale | Aug 29, 2019 | ESRI, GDAL
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 e00...
by rjhale | May 2, 2019 | FOSS4G, GDAL, postgis, QGIS
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...
