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A Geospatial Time Capsule

It's amazing what you can find when you plug in an old external hard drive. I recently rearranged my desk and realized that one of the external drives on top of my desktop Linux machine had apparently been unplugged for a while. I plugged it in to see what it held, and there were a … Continue reading A Geospatial Time Capsule →

Bill Dollins gis 2025-04-092025-04-09 3 Minutes

Pour One Out for ArcMap

On March 1, 2024, ArcMap will transition into "mature support." This means it will stop getting patches and updates. While ArcMap is not scheduled to be retired until 2026, the lack of patches and updates is the death knell for any modern software. At a minimum, many IT shops will begin to uninstall it simply … Continue reading Pour One Out for ArcMap →

Bill Dollins arcgis desktop, esri, gis, mapobjects, open source, postgis, ziggis 2024-01-172024-01-17 3 Minutes

New Directions

Since the first of the year, I've been on my own. After considering a number of really compelling job offers, I decided to start my own company and take a contract position with company doing work that's meaningful to me (more on that in the future). I'm also picking back up with some GIS work … Continue reading New Directions →

Bill Dollins gis 2023-01-242023-12-22 3 Minutes

QGIS and a Small Passion Project

When he was in the Air Force, my father served on Air Force One under four presidents - Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon. He was on the engine crew and got to see a lot of the world over the course of those administrations. I grew up with Presidential memorabilia all through our home: signed … Continue reading QGIS and a Small Passion Project →

Bill Dollins gis 2022-08-202022-08-20 3 Minutes

Simple Isochrone Analysis in QGIS

With my MBA program behind me, one of my goals has been to shake the rust off my coding and GIS skills. For this post, I thought I would start simply, just to make sure I remembered how to find my way around QGIS. We recently purchased a plug-in hybrid. It has a 17-mile range … Continue reading Simple Isochrone Analysis in QGIS →

Bill Dollins gis 2022-06-29 2 Minutes

Fulcrum Query API and Koop

I don't write code as much as I used to, but I have to return to it every so often to keep my sanity. With the current world situation, there are a lot of dashboards going up, many of which are based on the Esri Operations Dashboard or ArcGIS Hub. I got thinking about a … Continue reading Fulcrum Query API and Koop →

Bill Dollins Uncategorized 2020-03-202020-03-20 2 Minutes

Desktop GIS – The Evergreen Topic

Bill Dollins Uncategorized 2019-02-08 3 Minutes

Working with Materialized Views in PostGIS

Bill Dollins Uncategorized 7 Comments 2017-06-06 4 Minutes

Personal Geospatial Workflows, July 2016 Edition

Bill Dollins Uncategorized 2016-07-28 4 Minutes

Publishing GeoPackage to GeoServer Using QGIS

Bill Dollins Uncategorized 2016-06-24 2 Minutes

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