How I feel about New City Hall...

Boom! More awesome stuff to check out around my new workplace....



(HT +BuzzFeed for the gif)

Great set of pictures here.

Geospatial Data Analyst posting at Boundless

(HT: Paul Ramsey)

Lots of career opps @boundlessgeo right now: come work w/ us bringing open source spatial to the world! http://t.co/69G1AJzFVf
— Paul Ramsey (@pwramsey) January 21, 2014

I'm pretty much joined to the hip with the ESRI product line and to my hometown of Vancouver, but if I was a young turk again with no family and aspirations for bigger things, I would have totally applied for this. Nice little sweet spot between being the map production guy and the hard-core geodeveloper.

Seriously kids, if you are in the Open Source Geo World, it looks like a great opportunity. Amazing what changes are going on in the geospatial industry right now.

(and if Homeland is any indication, Maryland, VA seems like a nice suburb of Washington DC. NYC might kill you on the daily expenses, but heck, it's NYC, so there's no shortage of stuff to take in, right?)

My Map, Deconstructed

Thoughts?

I'm working on a new template where I've been reducing down the roads and parks as background layers. Here I've got the watercourses in south surrey as the main focus, colored with our standard symbology for fish habitat. Trying to find a green for parks that is fairly neutral is tough when one of your line symbols is a bright green.

(But will the print colors match? Sigh, don't even get me started....)

Prepping for a job interview this week...

.... and trying to plan my wife's birthday plans for the weekend too....



(HT Mashable)

#panic #nopanic

UPDATE (Jan 28): Well, everything pretty much went like this:


Argh.

Nothing to do except....

New Years Resolutions

Aiming to be a little better with this blog than years previous, or at least document my attempts to get more "professional".

The Lift app helps. Will try to blog once a week and post some semi-permanent GIS activities that I think you'll find interesting. 2014 will be a year of python programming. If that's for you too (and it should be in your toolkit if you call yourself a modern-day cartographer/GIS analyst), get yourself to PyCon 2014 in Montreal! 

Cheers y'all.

PS. 2013 blog of the year, IMHO? Drunken Geographer! 
PPS. In all seriousness, you should be following Planet Geospatial. It's your source to all good geospatial  blogs.
PPPS. Because sometimes you'll just find golden gems like this from Tobin Bradley's blog, Fuzzy Tolerance: What's in My Toolbox 2014. Will have to do one myself, maybe the next one. His, though, will be substantially be better. ;)

Happy Holidays Everyone

... and good cheer to all.


It's been an interesting 2013. 2014 is going to be even better, I hope.

In the meantime, go track Santa today.

Exhausting #GISWeek

Right now....



After this workweek.... ugh, so busy!
And what I'm going to do when I get home....


#GISWeek

When I saw that I made it to OpenGeo's The Top 100 Geospatial Influencers List...

(Via http://ladodgers.tumblr.com/post/59486896740/vivir-mi-vida)

... at #46 though...



(But seriously, thanks for acknowledgement, really enjoying the talk on twitter today!)

Career Illumination

After almost 6 yrs doing map production, I really gotta learn some JavaScript and Python. Again. 

Argh. The banes of GIS work... You are either a mapper or a programmer, and the two are not that interchangeable at the municipal GIS level.... 

That open source web GIS with leaflet is looking interesting. Might have to cut my teeth on that sometime.

When I have to forward a map request to my colleagues for our online map application...