by rjhale | Apr 7, 2020 | GIS, Open Source GIS, OSGEO, QGIS
I’ve been digging through the QGIS class this week as I wrestle with a way to move the class online. While doing that I started filing in the gaps of things that I wanted to add but didn’t because of time. Well – with the class moving online I can...
by rjhale | Dec 31, 2019 | GIS, OSGEO
Yeah – What? So my one dirty secret is I use OpenJump more than I ever talk about. What is it? From the website: OpenJUMP is an open source Geographic Information System (GIS) written in the Java programming language. It is developed and maintained by a group of...
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 | Dec 13, 2019 | GIS, Open Source GIS, OSGEO, Small Business, Tutorial
I used to go to a lot of schools to talk about maps – be it High School or College several times a year. Some have learned “Hey we don’t want Randy to talk to the impressionable kids”. I still do it if requested but I don’t make it well...
by rjhale | Oct 10, 2018 | FOSS4G, Open Source GIS, OSGEO
FOSS4G-NA popped up on my radar this week. So from just the website and a few twitter noise makers it looks like It’s headed to Mission Beach California (San Diego) April 16-18 2019. I’ve made the last 3 – so It looks like I’m going to do my...
by rjhale | Sep 6, 2018 | OSGEO, QGIS
So for those of you going “HEY I WANT TO USE SOME OF THIS OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE?”. Maybe you can’t install it locally…or maybe you have a spare machine laying around – there’s a way for you to do it. Download the OSGEOLive image and...