by rjhale | Oct 1, 2026 | OpenStreetMap, QGIS
In a previous post I talked about my aunt that died and we couldn’t find the cemetery. Found it! Welcome to the Bethel Cemetery. I will tip my hat to the inherent creepiness of the whole thing. Who is rising second? So I want to add cemeteries to OSM. In my...
by rjhale | Sep 18, 2026 | OpenStreetMap, Tennessee
So my first confession will be: I gave up on mapping graves in cemeteries. There’s a cemetery up the road from my current location and I wanted to map all the residents with the finest location equipment and databases and maps…….and it just...
by rjhale | Jun 12, 2025 | OpenStreetMap, Tutorial
Shortly after getting out of the Hospital I fell. I went down hard. It was embarrassing. Probably the worst thing is it took two people to help get me up. One person was pulling me up towards the left and one person was pulling me forward…which wasn’t...
by rjhale | Jul 21, 2023 | OpenStreetMap, QGIS
I was sitting around thinking there other day that I’ve been doing OpenStreetMap “things” for way too long. With one volunteer job going dormant I decided to re-visit something I had worked on 12 years ago. I had met up with some OSM folk here in...
by rjhale | Nov 5, 2021 | OpenStreetMap
……as opposed to pushing data into OSM. So I’ve been working on a OpenStreetMap workshop for URISA. I had originally written it 6 or 7 years ago and it’s been touched in spots but not “re-written”. I am doing a top to bottom...
by rjhale | Jan 12, 2021 | OpenStreetMap
New Year – Different posts. I love Listservs – I’ve resigned from all the OSM listservs though. It takes the stress level way down. Of course I still edit. Chattanooga from an OSM standpoint is pretty decent. Three things I usually tackle are...