A tale of two FOSS4G meetings

A tale of two FOSS4G meetings

In the Spring of 2017 I had a small FOSS4G meeting in Knoxville TN and the general feeling after it finished was “When are we doing this again?”. So the conversation started and surprise – we had two meetings. The first meeting happened in Knoxville...
Southeast FOSS4G meeting

Southeast FOSS4G meeting

Emails are going out to people and the gears are slowly starting to turn. Last year several of use got together and held a FOSS4G “mini event” in Knoxville TN. It turned out pretty well with about 50 people coming from as far as 5 hours away to join in the...

OSM in Chattanooga

So my back and forth with OSM continues these days. Overall I enjoy it If I stay out of the way and map. I’m also tired of mapping mostly by myself – there are a few here that help and the High School chips in when they have time. Probably 4 or 5 years ago...

Fulcrum Community and Hurricane Irma

As of Saturday September 9th 2017 the graphic from the National Hurricane Center looks like: For those of you in the path who are going to have immense fun with high winds, flooding, and possible flying houses carrying a small girl and her dog – Sign up for...
Class, GRASS, and LAS – LIDAR in TN Part 3

Class, GRASS, and LAS – LIDAR in TN Part 3

Part 1 Part 2 And now for Part 3. So something exciting happened. If you’ve been keeping up with the TN GIS Data site you’ll notice a lot more data has been released in uncomfortably HUGE zip files. I downloaded two counties worth and have been exploring...