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by James Fee
2y ago
I’m not saying I’ll never post here again, but I think this blog has run its course. Follow me at http://jamesfee.org. Part of this is, what do I do about twitter after some nutty billionaire ruins it and partly about this conversation. I am excited about the potential return of RSS and blogs. The worst case is everyone moves to “newsletters” – dark archives that aren’t durable and discoverable — Andrew Turner (@ajturner) April 25, 2022 Update your RSS: https://jamesfee.org/feed.xml Subscribe via weekly email: https://jamesfee.org/subscribe/ Follow on micro.blog: https://micro.blog/jamesfe ..read more
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A GIS Degree
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by James Fee
2y ago
My son decided to change majors from biodesign to GIS. I had a short moment when I almost told him not to bring all this on himself but then thought differently. I could use my years of experience to help him get the perfect degree in GIS and get a great job and still do what he wants. He’s one semester into the program so he really hasn’t taken too many classes. There has been the typical Esri, SPSS and Google Maps discussion, but nothing getting into the weeds. Plus he’s taking Geography courses as well so he’s got that going for him. Since he’s at Arizona State University, he’s going throu ..read more
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GIS and Monitors
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by James Fee
2y ago
If there is one constant in my GIS career, it is my interest in the monitor I’m using. Since the days of being happy for a “flat screen” Trinitron monitor to now with curved flat screens, so much has changed. My first GIS Analyst position probably had the worst monitor in the history of monitors. I can’t recall the name but it had a refresh rate that was probably comparable what was seen in the 1960s. It didn’t have great color balance either, so I ended up printing out a color swatch pattern from ArcInfo and taped it on my wall so I could know what color was what. I stared for years at this m ..read more
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Are Conferences Important Anymore?
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by James Fee
2y ago
Hey SOTM is going on, didn’t even know. The last SOTM I went to was in 2013 which was a blast. But I have to be honest, not only did this slip my mind, none of my feeds highlighted it to me. Not only that, apparently Esri is having a conference soon. (wait for me to go ask Google when it is) OK, they are having it next week. I used to be the person who went to as much as I could, either through attending or invited to keynote. The last Esri UC I went to was in 2015, 6 years ago. As I said SOTM was in 2013. FOSS4G, 2011. I had to look up, the last conference that had any GIS in it was the 2018 ..read more
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Unreal and Unity are the new Browsers
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by James Fee
3y ago
Someone asked me why I hadn’t commented on Cesium and Unreal getting together. Honestly , no reason. This is big news honestly. HERE, where I work, is teaming up with Unity to bring the Unity SDK and the HERE SDK to automotive applications. I talk about how we used Mapbox Unity SDK at Cityzenith (though I have no clue if they still are). Google and Esri have them too. In fact both Unreal and Unity marketplaces are littered with data sources you can plug in. HERE Maps with Unity This is getting at the core of what these two platforms could be. Back in the day we had two browsers, Firefox and In ..read more
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Arrays in GeoJSON
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by James Fee
3y ago
So my last post was very positive. I figured out how to relate the teams that share a stadium with the stadium itself. This was important because I wanted to eliminate the redundant points that were on top of each other. For those who don’t recall, I have an example in this gist: Now I mentioned that there were issues displaying this in GIS applications and was promptly told I was doing this incorrectly: An array of <any data type> is not the same as a JSON object consisting of an array of JSON objects. If it would have been the first, I'd have pointed you (again) to QGIS and this wid ..read more
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GeoJSON Ballparks as JSON
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by James Fee
3y ago
In a way it is good that Sean Gillies doesn’t follow me anymore. Because I can hear his voice in my head as I was trying to do something really stupid with the project. But Sheldon helps frame what I should be doing with what I was doing: tables? what the? add , teams:[{name:"the name", otherprop: …}, {name:…}] to each item in the ballparks array and get that relational db BS out of your brain — Sheldon (@tooshel) April 2, 2021 Exactly! What the hell? Why was I trying to do something so stupid when the while point of this project is baseball ballparks in GeoJSON. Here is the problem in a nu ..read more
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GeoJSON Ballparks and MLB Minor League Realignment
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by James Fee
3y ago
Boy, where to start? First for those who haven’t been following, this happened over the winter. Major League Baseball announced on Friday (February 12, 2021) a new plan for affiliated baseball, with 120 Minor League clubs officially agreeing to join the new Professional Development League (PDL). A full list of Major League teams and their new affiliates, one for each level of full-season ball, along with a complex league (Gulf Coast and Arizona) team, can be found below. Minor League Baseball What does that mean? Well for GeoJSON Ballparks basically every minor league team is having a m ..read more
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I’m Here at HERE
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by James Fee
3y ago
Last Tuesday I started at HERE Technologies with the Professional Services group in the Americas. I’ve probably used HERE and their legacy companies data and services for most of my career so this is a really cool opportunity to work with a mobile data company. I’m really excited about working with some of their latest data products including Premier 3D Cities (I can’t escape Digital Twins). Digital Twins at HERE ..read more
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Digital Twins and Unreal Engine
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by James Fee
3y ago
I’ve had a ton of experience with Unity and Digital Twins but I have been paying attention to Unreal Engine. I think the open nature of Unity is probably more suited for the current Digital Twin market, but competition is so important for innovation. This project where Unreal Engine was used to create a digital clone of Adelaide is striking but the article just leaves me wanting for so much more. A huge city environment results in a hefty 3D model. Having strategies in place to ease the load on your workstation is essential. “Twinmotion does not currently support dynamic loading of the level ..read more
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