Apr 3rd, 2012
While I have known about Public Laboratory for a while now, I am finally taking the plunge into the world of balloon mapping. Last month, Public Laboratory had a Kickstarter for their Balloon Mapping Kit. While the Kickstarter has ended, you can still purchase your own balloon mapping kit for $85. Now, I ended up acquiring [...]
Mar 30th, 2012
FOSSGIS 2012 was held in Bauhaus Stadt Dessau last week, which made for a three-train trek from Ilmenau for me. The location of the conference was at the Hochschule Anhalt, which offers an Online Masters program in GIS, right beside the Dessau Hauptbahnhof (main train station). The organizers had many signs set up all over [...]
Jan 10th, 2012
Monday to Friday, at about 8:30 EST, I get an email from Statistics Canada. Every day, they release new data that I can map, every day I take a look at the email to see what I can make, however specific or not. And that’s where I stop. I tend to mark it if I [...]
Sep 28th, 2011
As most people who have read my tweets know, I break things. I break things a lot. Lately I’m even paid to break a particular database with two particular pieces of software. I do it well, and I’m thankfully on great terms with one of the developers, so things are getting fixed. But when I [...]