shrug-l: META: QGIS: New to shrug list
Rick Labs
rick at clbcm.com
Mon Apr 4 11:13:48 EDT 2016
Hi All,
I'm new to the shrug list and interested in mapping, but just starting
out, not sure if this is appropriate? For the past few months I've been
teaching myself QGIS (so far/very impressed/ with it, and the price
can't be beat, /free!/) Is this listserve pretty much exclusive ESRI
users, and professional/government? Are beginners to mapping O.K.?
More below on what's of interest to me and what I might be able to offer.
Rick
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I'm relocating to Tallahassee this summer/fall and I have some
familiarity with some of the Leon.shp files (parcels, zoning, streets,
bing aerial, imperv, trails, etc.) BTW that is a very impressive set of
.shp data available from TLCGIS! I'm also beginner level familiar with
Open Street Mapping.
I have no formal training and no professional experience with mapping or
spatial analysis, and no programming experience specifically in Python
(although it looks a lot like VBA for Excel, which I'm well familiar
with.) I can get VBA to look up lat/longs for a list of street
addressees, and record tracks in a handheld GPS, however beyond that I'm
very new. A "million years ago" I was a Boy Scout with a topo map and a
compass, more recently a BSA leader (its amazing how useful some of
those practical BSA skills have turned out to be later in life...)
My full time "day job" is investment analysis (stocks and bonds, not
real estate investing so far...) with a heavy emphasis on relational
financial and economic data, and (simple, non exotic) forecasting. I
have a "hobby level" interest in mapping right now (plus using QGIS to
help for site search for a small home & office in Tallahassee.) I have
some background in market research, consumer, media, and census type
data (blocks, block groups, zip codes), psycho-graphics, clustering,
etc. from years ago working at an advertising and public relations firm.
O.K. confession time, I don't at present even know what any of the
following tags mean that this list uses for Subject tagging:
Arc8:
AV: (ArcView)
DEMS:
SDE:
RS: (Remote Sensing)
META:
Arc8: & AV: (ArcView) strike me as ESRI software products. META in my
financial world can get remarkably complex (from table column headers to
.xsd schema, OWL Ontologies, etc.) RS: is another area that is
potentially very complex in my mind (as in /sensing /and /sensor fusion/
in the aerospace industry?)
QGIS is very well documented and free support is quite good at
http://gis.stackexchange.com/ so I have no need to ask rudimentary
mapping software questions on the list here, especially if everyone
else is on ESRI platforms.
Right off the bat could use any tips on simple /ground water run off/
analysis in Tallahassee (small retention pits for very small commercial
buildings, permits, annual clean outs, changes to simple roof gutter
systems, simple dry wells, etc.) I very much understand that storm water
management is a significant issue. I'm looking at a small commercial
building to purchase for a home/office that is well out of any flood
plane, but some have adjacent imperv parking lots, building roofs, and
small hold back areas. (Soil in the area I've been looking is mostly
/Orangeburg fine sandy loam, 5 to 8 percent slopes/). I need to spot
check for adequate runoff, perhaps need to find a professional to scope
specific parcels out.
Over the longer term (and not pressing by any means) can see some
interesting areas where GIS intersects with financial analysis. Have
seen some network "maps" of economic entities and their
directors/leaders, measuring distance and relatedness that were quite
interesting. Logistics / supply chains, and economic performance,
input/output analysis is another area I see where spatial analysis could
potentially be very helpful.
On a volunteer level I might also be interested in things like planning
50 years out for FL DOT, area economic development, or emergency prep /
disaster response (including experimenting with open linked data,
SPARQL, Oasis EDXL / Reference Information Model), etc, as time permits.
Am I in the right place here, or pretty much way "off the trail"? lol.
All leads and connections very much appreciated.
Rick
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Richard J. Labs, CFA, CPA
CL&B Capital Management, LLC
Phone: 315-637-0915
E-mail (preferred for efficiency):rick at clbcm.com
Mailing address: 8 Laureldale Dr., Pittsford, NY 14534-3508
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