Two of my favorite things: my trusty ARC/INFO mug from 1990, and my trusty dog Pepper, painted in the style of Andrew Wyeth's Homer . At the recent FOSS4gNA conference , I had the pleasure of hearing about some of the new features in PostGIS. One such set of features were the Coverage related features ( ST_CoverageInvalidEdges , ST_CoverageUnion , ST_CoverageSimplif y ). These functions made certain adjustments in the data structure to allow for faster spatial operations. L

In my last post, I gave a brief overview of the website I created that mimics the S&P 500 over the last 100 years , as it relates to simulating retirement saving potential. That post was geared toward older adults who are getting close to retirement age. Today's post is geared for the twenty-something who has just entered the workforce, and might not be thinking about retirement. The goal here is to remind those younger adults just how important the phrase it's never to ea

This will be the first of two blog posts related to retirement and investment. This post will focus on people approaching retirement age, and how secure they may be in a retirement that might be around the corner. The next post will be targeted toward young professionals entering the job marketing and thinking about how to invest for the future . So, if you like this post, tell your children to check out the next one! If you don't want to read the blog, I just created a v

For today's post, I'm going to have Will Edmunds discuss some of the decisions he had to make when creating his map of average monthly runoff for the major watersheds in the conterminous United States. As a reminder, Will is a Senior at Salisbury University, majoring in Geography with a focused track in Geographic Information Science. The following are Will's observations: This map was the most time-consuming project I’ve worked on to date. It was a surprisingly difficult