by rjhale | Apr 20, 2026 | Tennessee, TNGIC
…aaand I’m back home. So I’ve been to a lot of conferences. Some Good. Some Bad. This one was good. Better than I had hoped. So what was my main takeaway from it? They keynotes were a great contrast of people/computers. OSM is all about the people. I...
by rjhale | Apr 15, 2026 | nashville, Tennessee, TNGIC
By the time you read this I will be sitting in the outskirts of Nashville Tennessee for the annual State Wide GIS Conference. I’ve attended this conference for the last 15 or so years off and on. There were come years I missed – some I went...
by rjhale | Apr 10, 2020 | Chattanooga, QGIS, Tennessee
Well – this is all weird. The Upcoming class in May is pushed off to June 24th and 25th. Hey – Is this a good idea? NO IDEA. I figure in about a month I’ll know whether to cancel it or go ahead with it. Of course we will be following the Guidelines...
by rjhale | Feb 21, 2019 | GDAL, postgis, QGIS, Tennessee
Many of you will look and go “OMG – Randy has a new hack for a database”. No – Randy is a hack at databases. So about 4 or 5 years ago I was dropped into the idea of databases. I was working a job several thousands miles to the south and life...
by rjhale | Sep 6, 2018 | Open Source GIS, postgis, QGIS, Tennessee
I went through a year or so of not talking at conferences. For local ones I’d show up and do something. I taught a workshop at FOSS4GNA 2018. I did a workshop at FOSS4G 2017 in Boston (and it sorta sucked). I need to get out of that mode and talk more –...
by rjhale | Aug 30, 2018 | Open Source GIS, QGIS, Tennessee
In between work I get a chance to play around with software. I’ve been digging around postgis more and more these days trying to get a better understanding of what it will do or won’t do. It’s a never ending learning experience for me. Sometimes it...
