Addressing Ramblings

I’m preparing to rollout the “new and improved” TN 911 database to a client. I’ve been working on it as time permits and I’m at a point where “it’s done”. You can deploy it and run it and life is good. Now the question...
Bike lanes for Fun and OSM

Bike lanes for Fun and OSM

Flash back 12 or more years ago and I was siting with a new found group mapping Bike and Bus “things” into OpenStreetMap in Chattanooga. About the only thing I remember is we tagged designated lanes as “CHA:bicycle=designated”. It was a lot of...
STAC Plugin for QGIS

STAC Plugin for QGIS

If you look at the entirety of my career the satellite imagery portion has always been lacking. I’ve always been fascinated with satellite imagery like landsat BUT I’ve never used it in any official capacity like running a classification. My first 10 years...

2022 The Year in Review

It’s that time again. How did this year stack up compared to other years? If you float back to the 2020 post I was about to jump off the nearest bridge. 2021 was a bit more hopeful as I was finally implementing a business plan that was doable. So what happened...

FOSS4G Nashville 2022

For Posterity – here is the schedule for the FOSS4G event In Nashville. It’s weird – I finally did some digging and this is the 4th Event I’ve run. We did one other meeting in Huntsville that I was half way involved in. We were talking last...

ESRI’s File Based Geodatabase and QGIS

With QGIS 3.28.1 being released you get this one new thing that I thought I’d never see. Way back in June (2022) this popped up on twitter: Yes – GDAL 3.6 would have the ability to edit ESRI File Based Geodatabases. Back in 2014 GDAL gained the ability to...