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Jason V 🗺️

@gislemur.bsky.social

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GIS Manager for a NE Illinois county. Open source advocate. Reformed hippie. Former shovel-bum (have trowel, will travel). Part-time hobbit & full time cat herder. All thoughts are my own. *was GISFerret on twitter but rebranding here*

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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · Nov 7

The more I use Pro, the more I really love QGIS

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 3d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · 1d

You’d think that a company that rakes in tens to thousands of dollars per customer and has had a web based system for about 15 years would have the ability to let users change their account name without having to create a new account then transfer everything over manually.

Seems kinda cheap 🤔

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Rhonda in PNW 🩵🦋 @rhondasrealm.bsky.social · 2d

Facts!

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FOSS4G North America @foss4gna.bsky.social · 2d

Interested in sharing geospatial data online? Sign up for the workshop on GeoServer and OGC API with Geosolutions at #FOSS4GNA. bit.ly/foss4gna2025

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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · 2d

Looking forward to finally being able to meet you in Chicago in a few weeks.

Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · 2d

I have 20 years of theses files in project folders all over my network. It sure has been fun tracking them down and converting them. 🙃🫤

Will anyone need them? Probably not, but if I don’t convert one, someone will need it a month after we lose access to Arc Desktop.

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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · 2d

Reminder to those still running Arc Desktop. Convert all your Personal Geodatabases over now. You won’t be able to access them in Pro.
#gischat #arcgis #archives

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SASSI South @sassisouth.bsky.social · Sep 4

Join SASSI for a digital workshop on Wednesday, October 1st from 7-8:30pm ET to learn how to identify and map Flock Safety cameras in your community and city as a tactic in challenging the use of automated license plate readers in your city.

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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · 13d

Just sometimes?

Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · 15d

Real good discussion on use of IR imaging by Dr Mousa Diabat from NV5 today. This was the first of their focused webinars. The slide is showing water temps in a stream particularly highlighting colder water fed from submerged springs

(www.nv5geospatialsoftware.com/Company/Events/Geo-Sessions)

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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · 21d

Learning something new in Pro every day.

Today I discovered they put in hot keys to rotate the entire map, and not something safe like “control+a”, just “a”. Then between trying to figure out WTF was going on and a shit load of googling I finally found the options to turn that crap off.

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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · 23d

a man in a green shirt is laughing while sitting in a row of chairs .

ALT: a man in a green shirt is laughing while sitting in a row of chairs .

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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · Sep 9

Wish I had seen this years ago. My former boss always insisted on a one size fits all solution that I don’t think helped as many people as we had hoped.

Come to think about it, this likely wouldn’t have helped anyway. I kept wanting to do simple directed solutions, but it never went anywhere. 🫤

Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · Sep 2

Now if they understood map projections we’d be set (or doomed)

Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · Sep 2

roses are red
gold is the key

Headline: CROWS CAN
UNDERSTAND GEOMETRY

Photo: closeup or a crow or raven facing left

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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · Sep 2

For my needs, ArcCatalog is still a far superior product than the same trash that replaces it that they shoehorned in Pro. The only thing I am missing is the new datetime field types they finally made available. They should have left it as two separate apps for managing data and making maps.

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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · Sep 2

We are still using Desktop here. We are finally migrating our biggest users. Some users in another division have indicted they will stick with it until it finally breaks. I’m not worried about forcing it on them. They have been warned we will not support it when it does. #gischat

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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · Aug 26

Some pumps let you mute the sound. Try pressing the unlabeled buttons around the screen. On several near me, it is usually the second from the bottom on the right side.
Unfortunately they can change this. One of the places I go to turned this option off after a couple of months.

Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · Aug 22

We had a policy for this back in 2003. But there were no teeth in the policy to actually enforce anything.
Only one firm ever tried to submit electronically and it was a mess. They could not get us working files, or they did not match the recorded files, etc. They eventually just gave up trying.

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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · Aug 22

I’d say someone got their ego (and something else) bent out of shape. I have to laugh at how they make it sound like their own… stuff does not stink yet I hear our cadastral team trying to figure out the mess these surveyors recorded that don’t match up with other previously recorded surveys.

Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · Aug 22

Files? As in digital??
It’s been over a decade since we ever got a digital submission of anything from a surveyor other than one we hired directly to give us coordinates for a subset of our PLSS section corners.

Meme of a kid standing with a confused look on his face. Text says “You guys are getting digital files from a surveyor?

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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · Aug 22

I have had to make that fight. I believe there are a few state agencies that stopped giving us data directly and go through a different department because I called them out on their crappy (or nonexistent) metadata.

To be fair, I have to fight people for this in my organization too.

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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · Aug 21

For some of these docs, the number of problems is not good. I’ve been channeling the copy editor from our school paper we called “the butcher” because of the amount of red ink on our submissions after he was done with them.

I’d never live it down if he saw me now. *sigh*

a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed

Alt: From the Office. Close up of Michael Scott doing a facepalm

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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · Aug 21

Oh yay! It’s documentation day. Between periods of writing up my own documentation, I have been reviewing other people’s docs. I have come to realize some of these people must not have had to write too much in college.

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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · Aug 16

Best thing I found at my first dig was a complete fish dinner in a cooking pit. The grass mats were sill intact. Don’t know exactly why, but someone abandoned that meal while it was cooking.

(The site was in Iowa on the Mississippi around the time of first European contact but w/no Eu trade goods)

Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · Aug 14

Kinda jealous, tbh. On my first dig, the best thing I found was a colonial-era nail. 🧪🏺

Archaeology student finds rare ninth-century gold 'within the first 90 minutes' of her first excavation

An archaeologist in training discovered a rare medieval gold object in northwestern England during her first excavation.

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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · Aug 11

I don’t know why I let the fact that ArcGIS Online can’t handle annotation layers get to me when as far as I can tell, AGOL can’t even rotate a F-ing text label.

Come on Jack! This is basic mapping. Hell, you did it fine with ArcIMS, and AGOL is supposed to be better than ArcIMS! Am I right?