The Coffee House

[LakeFX]

Wow - there's two of us! I just started - I'm the world's oldest intern. The only reason I got to go to this is because our ESRI rep gave us tickets.

Welcome to the profession! I've been in GIS for almost 15 years now. I currently work for the state and also teach GIS and computer science at the local community college.

I did get to go to the ESRI education users conference one year to present a Web based teaching tool I developed and it was one of the better organized conferences I've been to.

 

[bribrius]

i get the point of it. But it actually sounds incredibly boring. suppose it could be more interesting with a first hand experience.

 

[LakeFX]

i get the point of it. But it actually sounds incredibly boring. suppose it could be more interesting with a first hand experience.

It's boring in the way that photo editing suites are boring. Software is inherently boring. It's a tool that you can do really fun stuff with.

 

[snerd]

...... Please, no political responses......

LOL! You learned that from Lew, didn't you?! Get your political statement in, then say this isn't a political post so no one else can say anything political! Good show, old chap!!

If I had any idea what you were talking about, I might challenge you with something political. Alas....... I haven't a clue what you're on about!!

 

[snowbear115 47]

Wow - there's two of us! I just started - I'm the world's oldest intern. The only reason I got to go to this is because our ESRI rep gave us tickets.

Welcome to the profession! I've been in GIS for almost 15 years now. I currently work for the state and also teach GIS and computer science at the local community college.

I did get to go to the ESRI education users conference one year to present a Web based teaching tool I developed and it was one of the better organized conferences I've been to.

Thanks.

I retired from County government in 2009. I had been going to Univ of MD, part time for about 6 years working on a BS in Geography/GIS. When I retired, I went full time for three semesters and graduated in December 2010.

Bri: It's boring to some, but I really enjoy it, especially the cartography. I've made wall maps for fire stations, maps that my boss uses to show citizens why we are building a new station at the site we've chosen, routing and coverage maps that are being used to determine the best places to house an ambulance, maps showing mock tornado tracks for a table-top emergency management exercise, and maps used to settle disputes over which station goes on a call to a certain location. I also get to play around with Python programming which I'm really getting to like (I was a COBOL programmer a number of years ago). One side project I'm working on is collecting the addresses (and thus the lat-long coordinates) of all fire station in the state of MD and surrounding counties in DE, VA, WV and PA, including Federal installations (bases, etc.)

I've actually started a blog on my main project (roads network and the run cards) as a guide to other newcomers.

 

[pixmedic]

Omg.....it's 44 degrees out this morning. Where's my jacket?!?

 

[snowbear115 47]

Omg.....it's 44 degrees out this morning. Where's my jacket?!?

27F now. Going up to 43F. It's supposed to get cold, later in the week.

 

[sm4him]

Our county TPO (Transit Planning Organization) uses GIS to create the background maps for our schedules. They create the base map and then send it to me and I create the actual schedules.
We also use their GIS information for a lot of our planning and development work.

 

[sm4him]

It's 26°F right now, but going up to about 56°. Then the bottom drops out and we'll barely make it above freezing (32°) tomorrow. But it's nearly the middle of February, so it becomes a LITTLE easier to tell myself this won't last forever so that maybe I won't give up and go crawl in a hole somewhere. If I lived in Boston, I'd have done myself in by now.

But, my whole being is weary of winter, of cold, and dreariness and grey. Winter just sucks the life out of me. I NEED to be able to put the top down on the little convertible!

 

[limr30 3]

Ooooh, 7 degrees out right now. High of 28. it's going to be a cold weekend with lows in the negative numbers and highs in the teens.

It's about time I've had a proper winter. I know what this means, of course. I'm going to be punished with a hot summer. Though really, any summer is too hot for me. I wish I could hibernate through it.

 

[mmaria]

 

[KenC]

Ooooh, 7 degrees out right now. High of 28. it's going to be a cold weekend with lows in the negative numbers and highs in the teens.

It's about time I've had a proper winter. I know what this means, of course. I'm going to be punished with a hot summer. Though really, any summer is too hot for me. I wish I could hibernate through it.

Pretty cold here this weekend as well, although not quite as bad. I've had enough winter about now, although I too dislike hot summer weather. Hibernating through it would be OK if we got the time back later, say by not having to sleep in the Spring and Fall - no one's offered me that deal though.

 

[bribrius]

Ooooh, 7 degrees out right now. High of 28. it's going to be a cold weekend with lows in the negative numbers and highs in the teens.

It's about time I've had a proper winter. I know what this means, of course. I'm going to be punished with a hot summer. Though really, any summer is too hot for me. I wish I could hibernate through it.

meh. eleven degrees I noticed something. Since I am not working winter doesn't seem so bad. I don't really HAVE to be out in cold temps much. Kinda optional . No cleaning off the truck and scraping the windshield to run to work at 5 a.m. winter isn't so bad when you can decide more when you want to go out in it. Like when it snows. I can take my time more. No running around like a chicken with my head cut off. Kind of happy I am not plowing commercially anymore too. That was a rat race. I am in a weird habit. I left the truck running for three hours straight the other day. Normally I would just leave it running for extended periods so It was dethawed and ready to go. I thought about it three hours later and remembered I don't have to do that anymore. .I have time to warm it up again and scrape the window if need be.

 

[Gary A.]

Wow - there's two of us! I just started - I'm the world's oldest intern. The only reason I got to go to this is because our ESRI rep gave us tickets.

Welcome to the profession! I've been in GIS for almost 15 years now. I currently work for the state and also teach GIS and computer science at the local community college.

I did get to go to the ESRI education users conference one year to present a Web based teaching tool I developed and it was one of the better organized conferences I've been to.

Thanks.

I retired from County government in 2009. I had been going to Univ of MD, part time for about 6 years working on a BS in Geography/GIS. When I retired, I went full time for three semesters and graduated in December 2010.

Bri: It's boring to some, but I really enjoy it, especially the cartography. I've made wall maps for fire stations, maps that my boss uses to show citizens why we are building a new station at the site we've chosen, routing and coverage maps that are being used to determine the best places to house an ambulance, maps showing mock tornado tracks for a table-top emergency management exercise, and maps used to settle disputes over which station goes on a call to a certain location. I also get to play around with Python programming which I'm really getting to like (I was a COBOL programmer a number of years ago). One side project I'm working on is collecting the addresses (and thus the lat-long coordinates) of all fire station in the state of MD and surrounding counties in DE, VA, WV and PA, including Federal installations (bases, etc.)

I've actually started a blog on my main project (roads network and the run cards) as a guide to other newcomers.

Hey Charlie, I found these interesting:
10 Interesting Maps

 

[Gary A.]

Buenos Dias Coffee Hosers. 55F right now but the wind in coming in from the northeast. Supposed to hit 80F+ today. I turned on the front sprinklers. My allergies have been kicking in big time, making me miserable and grumpy as opposed to being merely grumpy.