by rjhale | Nov 14, 2016 | Open Source GIS, QGIS, USGS
Confession – Former Geology Student turned into GIS person. Back when I started doing GIS we were running on Sun Sparc Stations. I learned a lot – and one of the things I learned was I love to tinker with small programs. The fun one was xearth for a few...
by rjhale | Apr 5, 2014 | Crowdsourcing, Do Some Good, Open Source GIS, Open Street Map, USGS
I’ve been taking a break from OpenStreetMap – the break is about over though. I started doing some digging this weekend on the National Map Corps. This is the USGS’s foray into Crowdsourcing. I thought it was something new – it’s been...
by rjhale | Apr 2, 2014 | GDAL, Google, QGIS, USGS
It’s one of the things I always end up falling back to are the USGS 7.5 Minute quad sheet. My forestry clients live and die by them even though they are now getting severely out of date – some as much as 30 years. I stumbled on this the other day –...
by rjhale | Oct 10, 2013 | Rambling, USGS
The Government shutdown is in it’s….well – what are we close to two weeks in…. The clients of NRGS are typically organizations struggling with data or organizations that need an answer. So I utilize a lot of NAIP, census data, and whatever is...
by rjhale | Feb 25, 2013 | Education, Forestry, USGS
So I just got this over email – It looks like the USGS is preparing for the next version of the National Elevation Dataset The following USGS online publication was approved for release and has been made available to the public. USGS Open-File Report...
