rjhale1971

rjhale1971, 13 days ago to random

MAGIP and TNGIC in 2024

I just came off two conferences with one being in Montana and one being in Tennessee. Both Geo related. It was my first time attending the MAGIP conference. Not that you need a long overly drawn out review of both - here are some of the highlights: TNGIC was fun. It was a different approach this year focused on people more than "the usual conference thing".

https://www.northrivergeographic.com/magip-and-tngic-in-2024/

rjhale1971, 21 days ago to random

We built a digital twin. "You mean a GIS". Well no its different we are using GIS and maps and data....and 3d. "OK that cleared it up"

rjhale1971, 23 days ago to Mexico

I believe this mapper danced when she was picked to be in the Geohipster calendar - https://www.geohipster.com/2024/04/16/maps-and-mappers-of-the-2024-calendar-laura-angelica-bautista-montejano-april/ #geohipster #mexico #cartography

rjhale1971, 1 month ago to random

TNGIC 2024

So - if you're coming to the 2024 TNGIC (TN Geographic Information Council) meeting to talk about how no one understands what you do......I'm doing a workshop. What workshop? It's a new workshop. QGIS and LIDAR data. As to what I do with the class after I run this workshop I have no clue. This was a "last minute" idea because I hardly ever use LIDAR for anything in my day to day life but people do.

https://www.northrivergeographic.com/tngic-2024/

rjhale1971, 1 month ago to random

Finally got one Interview over the line for Geohipster. Now they're starting to line up again. Shesh. So good stuff coming tomorrow on Paper Maps!

rjhale1971, 2 months ago to random

Maps and Mappers of the 2024 Calendar - February. @MindOverMagma https://www.geohipster.com/2024/02/23/map-and-mappers-of-the-2024-calendar-euan-mitchell-february/ #geohipster

rjhale1971, 2 months ago to random

So unless something crazy happens - FOSS4GNA is Sept 9-11 2024 in St Louis, MO #foss4gna #osgeo

rjhale1971, 2 months ago to random

PostgreSQL Notifications and QGIS

This usually turns up in the QGIS world every two years - So it's my turn to talk about it. This month I did a emergency install of the TN 911 database. Basically client had a problem, we solved it in the most elegant way possible, and I'm still sorting out a few things. Generally it went smooth. We went from no database to being able to edit the existing data in half a day.

https://www.northrivergeographic.com/postgresql-notifications-and-qgis/

rjhale1971, 2 months ago to random

So I asked Friday - what is your backup policy and there isn't one. So today I rigged up pg_dump to an external hard drive until I can talk to the elusive IT staff that this guy has alienated. Every night at 9:00 PM it dumps a file out to a hard drive. Everyday at 5PM OGR runs an export to the State Of TN's 911 folk. ALL FROM A LAPTOP.

rjhale1971, 2 months ago to random

Last week I installed postgis/postgresql for a client. Second windows install this year of postgresql. I was told we had a server........

rjhale1971, 3 months ago to random

QGIS2Web and the Hunt for Bike Lanes

I was teaching a QGIS class a while back and at one point the discussion drifted into "So this OpenStreetMap thing" and I discussed how I enjoy making edits. Eventually it turned to "I'm trying to get Chattanooga's Bike Lanes into it in my spare time". One thing led to another and I had the chance to virtually meet some people that new about the bike lanes.

https://www.northrivergeographic.com/qgis2web-and-the-hunt-for-bike-lanes/

rjhale1971, 3 months ago to random

Scared off my first VC funded "We need help with the GIS" potential customer.

"You're expensive". Yes.

I should have done that with the one 3 years ago.

rjhale1971, 3 months ago to random

At this point in my life I was fascinated by Unix/Linux Sysadmin stuff. I was running reiserfs on several distributions. Then the creator was arrested for Murder. Interesting read if you were remember that time period - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/convicted-murderer-filesystem-creator-writes-of-regrets-to-linux-list/

rjhale1971, 3 months ago to Mexico

Maps and Mappers of the 2024 Calendar - Amanda Robins https://www.geohipster.com/2024/01/18/maps-and-mappers-of-the-2024-calendar-amanda-robinson-january/ #cartography #cenotes #mexico #geohipster

rjhale1971, 3 months ago to Montana

Officially headed to the Montana GIS Conference in April to do some QGIS things. All because one disgruntled user jumped up and went "I'm sick of all the ESRI Training". #qgis #foss4g #montana #magip

matt_travis, 3 months ago to random

Loving my #geohipster camping mug. Thanks for sorting this out @rjhale1971

rjhale1971, 3 months ago to random

Things QGIS is also good at - Keeping a farmer from upgrading Trimble Farm Works. Through a weird series of events I'm helping a guy keep his tractor/business moving by showing him how to do things in QGIS. Farm Works has been moved to a new product BUT I dont' think the new product works with his equipment. #qgis

rjhale1971, 4 months ago to random

QGIS Deployment CLI

In my attempt to do one blog post a week on something - today it's QGIS. One of my clients did a hefty install of QGIS and they went and touched every box and then had a list of "things to do" like installing plugins and connecting services. I know there are different avenues through windows (and probably through linux) to get things installed.

https://www.northrivergeographic.com/qgis-deployment-cli/

rjhale1971, 4 months ago to random

For fun today while I deal with year end insanity - the Talking Heads album Remain in Light.

rjhale1971, 4 months ago to random

So I'll go ahead and throw this out into the world: The QGIS US group is going to get kickstarted shortly. Probably monthly "lunch and learn" type videos that will be short and recorded and tossed on the QGIS US youtube page. Tis the season and we'll probably be dragging osgeo.us along with us. #qgis #qgisus

markstos, 4 months ago to random

Both the #qgis plugins "qgis2web" and "Data Plotly" crash QGIS 3.34 when I activate them on Arch Linux.

I went on a side quest to run QGIS in the official virtual machine but only darkness lie down that path, like literally black VirtualBox screens as I tried to do things like view the QGIS window full screen. Changing my "host key" also wasn't working.

I think for now I'll dial back my plugin ambitions with QGIS.

https://github.com/qgis2web/qgis2web/issues/1019

https://github.com/ghtmtt/DataPlotly/issues/343

rjhale1971, 4 months ago to random

Wake up this Christmas morning to find that Geohipster completely destroyed one person's Christmas with an 2023 Calendar.

Yay. Anyway - now I'm trying to get them to share their address as the Printer wouldn't release any of that.

rjhale1971, 4 months ago to random

It's about time for that "year end review" for the North River Geographic Systems.