I've been trying to write my thoughts down more and have just been lost in life. The last 30 days have had me in Oak Ridge, Murfreesboro, and Reston Virginia. Yet another reason I mumble I really need to cut down on traveling. Which reminds me I need to discuss Foss4GNA 2025 sooner than later. I haven't been to the Doctor in 3 months.

The 2026 Geohipster Calendar is out with 17 original maps from 16 cartographers. Help fund the website by purchasing.

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So welcome to my crossover post. Which I hardly talk about Geohipster. Geohipster is one of those "side things" that's been happening for over 10 years now. Back in the dearly days of twitter......or I should call it the "Golden Age of social media", Atanas Entchev had an idea to Document the industry. So a handful of us post articles highlighting professionals in the industry AND - We have this Calendar.

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I've been trying to write more as I get into this "New Life" thing since January. I'm not a developer. There was a time I did give it a go and it wasn't my thing. I can write small programs that scratch an itch but they aren't for mass consumption. I have found a large amount of happiness in SQL and GDAL as of late and PyQGIS....but the PyQGIS blog post is another post for another time.

I said last year I was going to cut back on conferences and forgot about that in the lead up to January. So far this year there's been three conferences I've attended. I've got another 2 plus one speaking engagement and then I'm done for a bit. Of course that leaves me wondering about next year. My typical conference experience is: …

It made me sad. I'm working on a project involving 911 data and it's made me do quite a bit of thinking. The short story on this is it's not in Tennessee. I'm taking data in it's raw form and shoving it into that state's NG911 format. So I have about half of it "pre-written" with existing scripts. I was lucky in Tennessee as the Standard was written around a database and left the user to "fix" the data by whatever means you wanted.

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I realize as I type this I should have said something sooner. So I'll be in Reston November 3-5th 2025 talking, hanging out, and annoying people at FOSS4GNA 2025. If you're at the conference track me down. If you're in the area and you're interested in QGIS track me down. This one hits a bit different because at the last one in 2024 I did my best to die during it.

For outstanding contributions to any of the core tools, systems, processes or resources. Not limited to systems under OSMF control. The Rails port, osm2pgsql, openstreetmap-carto, iD, JOSM, mapnik…

Eric Theise manipulates projected digital maps while Ed Osborn wrangles live electronics & saturated field recordings.

Cartographer Andrew Middleton presented "How Maps Lie" at Dickinson Memorial Library, discussing the different shapes maps can take and how they distill perspectives, while encouraging the audience to...

Sometimes things happen at a slow burn. One thing I've been trying to do in what spare tim eI have is resurrect the QGIS-US group. It's starting. I've reached the point now where emails/virtual hangouts are about to start happening. So I made a google form and in general I'm just trying to figure out "who" and "where". So if you're interested in a QGIS US Users group add your name to the list and we will attempt to get things rolling. I'm not sharing your info with anyone - this is more for me to gauge on how to proceed. Loading…

Joseph Elfelt is a software developer in the geo world as a result of a life-long interest in maps and self-teaching.