by rjhale | May 2, 2018 | Python, QGIS
It’s a story that’s way longer than anyone will want to read. I’ve a client that I’m doing a database conversion project. We’ve moving out of a commercial vendor and to Postgis/PostgreSQL/QGIS. Weird thing is I’m running linux on...
by rjhale | Mar 2, 2018 | FOSS4G, Open Source GIS, postgis, Python, QGIS
The title may be the worst part of this post. Hopefully. Anyway – here’s what happened. I will explain it in all of it’s goofy detail with some hope that by the end you’ll do the same thing I did. I’ve a client that is currently making...
by rjhale | Dec 17, 2017 | postgis, Python, QGIS
I’ll attempt to make this shorter than my adventure. So in the middle of rewriting the QGIS Class I decided to kickstart the PostGIS class…..Because why not do two things at once. The QGIS part I have covered. The PostGIS part left me with two questions....
by rjhale | Mar 6, 2017 | Python
Got that out of the way – There – let me backtrack a little…… I started in GIS back in 1992. Maybe it was 1993. Several things started happening about the time I sat down in front of the GIS workstation to start a career: I figured out I should...
by rjhale | Oct 27, 2016 | GRASS, North Carolina, Open Source GIS, Python
Interested in using GRASS GIS as a geospatial processing backend? Or for reproducible research with Python? Or as a surprisingly powerful desktop GIS? Then come to the November GRASS GIS Raleigh meetup which will be specifically focused on getting newcomers...
by rjhale | Aug 21, 2016 | OSGEO, Python, QGIS
It’s funny how things “come up” during the week. I had two people at random go “I wished QGIS did the hyperlink thing that Arcview does”. I hadn’t really thought about the word hyperlinks in a while. If you ever had the joy of using...