I grew up in the country about 200 yards from the family farm where my mother and grandfather grew up. Consequently, we put Half and Half on our cereal. I always hated eating cereal at a friend’s house after a sleepover because they used milk on their Cocoa Puffs. I would say, “You’re supposed to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘geography’
Putting Paper Maps Where They Belong
August 23rd, 2011
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In 2006 I spoke at a state GIS conference on converting to a digital infrastructure. We called our talk “From Mylar Maps to Mobile GIS”. It focused on the process of moving from those huge, unruly mapbooks as a primary instrument of sewer locations to an ArcPAD application on field toughbooks. (As a point of note I [...]
Data Templates, Community Map & Parcel Fabric
July 19th, 2011
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OK. There’s been a momentum change at Esri. A paradigm shift, if you will. Maybe it happened when they changed their name from E-S-R-I to Ez-riee. Maybe it was when the User Conference outgrew their own Campus. Maybe it was when Jack was attacked by a gorilla, I don’t know, but it has happened. They no [...]
Google Earth Builder, Smoked Turkey & other GIS Changes
April 25th, 2011
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Over the weekend, my father-in-law smoked a turkey on his gas grill for Easter. It was, possibly, the best turkey I’ve ever eaten. “How did you know what to do?” I asked. “Well, I Googled it.” He said. It’s not what he did; it’s how he found out. I find it amazing that my wife’s [...]
Grrrrrrrrrrrr
March 25th, 2011
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Sometimes, I’m just in a bad mood. And for reasons that I’ve stated in the past, this blog is mostly therapeutic. So the doctor is in. I had one of the best weekends in the past few years this past weekend. It has been followed by a week where everything seems to go against me. I say “seemed” [...]
Been There…
December 16th, 2010
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Done That. Really? I love to go to training. Preferably training in Chicago’s Loop. There’s great coffee on every corner and I really dig the pace of life (for about 4.25 days). Usually, I learn more than I thought I would and at least as much as I had hoped. I can rate the complexity of [...]
Map Appreciation
December 8th, 2010
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Last night marked the end of teaching “Map Appreciation” at our local community college for the fall semester. It was the first time for offering the class. Since 06-07 ICC has had a geospatial certification program. I’ve taught 3 of the 6 classes as an adjunct instructor. This last semester they added 2 classes, Geodatabases [...]
Jack of All…
October 18th, 2010
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Apparently even by saying something like “My Daughter and her friends say ________” wrenches me into a category with the likes of Mr. Wilson and the old man who owns the junkyard in the movie Stand By Me. So, I try not to say those things. Not because I don’t want to seem old like [...]
