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How FOSS4g Fits in Your Stack
I had a great semester working with my students using desktop, server, and developer tools with Free and Open Source Software for...
artlembo
May 20, 20201 min read


teaching Arcpy to first time users
In my previous post, I showed how my GIS students were able to adapt to QGIS as a desktop GIS, and also the model building capabilities...
artlembo
May 11, 20203 min read


teaching an old dog new tricks: learning QGIS
In my last post, I showed that my lower level undergraduate students were performing quite well in their online transition, when learning...
artlembo
Apr 27, 20205 min read


Are students learning online?
We're now about 6 weeks into our experiment of transitioning our University instruction to an online environment. Because we...
artlembo
Apr 25, 20205 min read


COVID-19 Death Animation for Maryland with QGIS
I just started working with the Time Manager plug-in with QGIS to create an animation of recent COVID-19 deaths in Maryland: The map...
artlembo
Apr 22, 20201 min read


Free Online Quantitative Geography Course
Due to the COVID-19 virus, many of our schools are struggling to turn their courses into online delivery. I just found out that our...
artlembo
Mar 21, 20202 min read


Free course materials for GIS Professors
Due to the COVID-19 virus, many of our schools are struggling to turn their courses into online delivery. I too am getting my courses...
artlembo
Mar 12, 20202 min read


Building a geodatabase tutorial - ArcGIS Pro
If you're like me, you've enjoyed using the ESRI Tutorial Building a Geodatabase. It's a great tutorial that steps students through some...
artlembo
Mar 11, 20201 min read
Virtual layers with QGIS – wait a second, this is starting to look like Manifold…
If you are like me, you love writing spatial SQL. But what can you do if you have a geodatabase, some shapefiles, or any other data...
artlembo
Sep 18, 20191 min read
Easy Bivariate Maps with QGIS, SQL, and the DB Manager
Previously, I blogged about creating bivariate maps with Postgres, and Arcpy. Pretty cool stuff, check it out! But, to be honest even...
artlembo
Sep 17, 20191 min read
SQL or Models in QGIS – you decide
In my previous post, I showed how to create a model in QGIS – I think that was pretty cool! But, as I say over and over, SQL is even...
artlembo
Sep 13, 20191 min read


Models in QGIS
Did you know that QGIS can design graphical models, similar to the way Model Builder in ArcGIS works? The following video is taken from...
artlembo
Aug 20, 20191 min read


Big Data Geo-Analytics with Postgres workshop Evaluation
Technical and Detailed. Great teacher explanation. Really good! Practical advice, in-depth enough to really learn something useful (most...
artlembo
Aug 12, 20192 min read


Bivariate Choropleth Maps with Arcpy
In my previous post, I showed how to prepare the data for a bivariate choropleth map using PostGIS and QGIS. I also indicated that there...
artlembo
Mar 15, 20192 min read


Easy bivariate map with Postgres
A friend recently asked me about the cool looking bivariate maps produced with ArcOnline, lamenting that the capability seemed lacking...
artlembo
Mar 14, 20193 min read


Ready for a new career?
I just got off the phone with a very large developer. I want to call him a GIS developer, but really that’s not was he does. Rather, he...
artlembo
Mar 7, 20192 min read


Engaging students with multiuser editing, and FOSS4g
A friend is doing some research on estrogen and estrodial in water samples in Delaware. We have about 50 sub-watersheds that show the...
artlembo
Feb 21, 20192 min read
PostGIS Multiprocessing Code-Review
As promised, let’s walk through the code I wrote to create the multiprocessing of my Postgres/PostGIS task. You may recall that I said...
artlembo
Dec 11, 20183 min read


PostGIS and Multiprocessing
NYC taxi cab pickup locations for October, 2012 OK, let’s cut to the chase: I used Python’s parallel processing capabilities with...
artlembo
Dec 10, 20185 min read


Denver workshops – a mixture of sadness and joy.
two successful Keeping Up with GIS Technology workshops out in Denver. This was a week mixed with sadness and joy: sadness in that my...
artlembo
Oct 28, 20184 min read
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