A geospatial career journey
Human geography or anthropogeography is the branch of geography that deals with the study of people and their communities, cultures, economies, and interactions with the environment by studying their relations with and across space and place. Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_geography) I was catching up with my friend and former boss, Tony Quartararo, a couple of days ago when our discussion got around … Continue reading Personal Geography
Or Skype, or Google Meet, or GoToMeeting, or whatever. As I bounce around social media, I keep running across a lot of spurious advice on how to project a "professional" impression as you, like everyone else, participates in video calls from home. This seems to be particularly true on LinkedIn. Most of that advice is … Continue reading Tips For Your Best Zoom Experience
The cursor flashes, waiting for a command.Any command.An editor window is open,Empty.The fan does not hum, with nothing to cool.The keyboard simply restsAs dust,Illuminated by the stripes of sunlightmoving across the desk,Settles between its idle keys. It all taunts meWith the truth: There is no map I can make,No chart,No graph,No query,No post nor comment;There … Continue reading Nonessential
Data conflation is a meat-and-potatoes task in most GIS workflows. There are numerous reasons one might need to get data from one data set into another. Perhaps you want to attach a new geometry type to existing attributes or a table. Or maybe you need to pull attributes from one or more data sets into … Continue reading Attribute Transfer in PostGIS Using Spatial SQL
I have addressed the topic of triggered notifications a couple of times on this blog previously. I've taken the opportunity to apply the technique to a current use case - the ability to get notifications whenever the confirmed count of COVID-19 cases changes in my county or surrounding ones. I am basing this workflow on … Continue reading Watching COVID-19 Data for Your County with PostgreSQL and Node