A geospatial career journey
I started the year with a sense of renewal. By that, I mean that I had cataract surgery the first week of the year and I literally have a new vision for the future. This time last year, I was already down with bronchitis - the result of an unnamed respiratory illness that knocked me … Continue reading Onward to 2025
This week, I had the opportunity to attend OGC@30, the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). The early 1990s were the very beginning of my professional career and they were also a time of geospatial innovation. Many of the pioneers from that time, including OGC founder David … Continue reading Thirty Years of OGC
I recently had the opportunity to help organize last week’s inaugural DMV GIS Day, a virtual event hosted by New Light Technologies (NLT) that brought together geospatial professionals and enthusiasts from across the D.C., Maryland, and Virginia region. It was an inspiring reminder of the innovation and collaboration that define our field and our region. … Continue reading Reflections on DMV GIS Day 2024
Getting nothing but static, getting nothing but staticStatic filling my attic from Channel Z - The B-52's I joined LinkedIn first. A friend recommended it to me at the time and I signed up on February 11, 2004. Member number 224,376. I made my first attempt at a blog in 2005 and scuttled it after … Continue reading Reclamation
A few months ago, I wrote a post about how to generate GeoJSON feature collections using pure SQL in PostGIS. After attending FOSS4GNA and learning more about GeoParquet and DuckDB, I wanted to modify the approach to use those tools. What is DuckDB? It is an in-process SQL database management system designed for fast analytical … Continue reading Producing GeoJSON from SQL, Part 2 (DuckDB/Geoparquet Edition)