This post isn’t aimed at any particular group, but I suspect that folks who are interested in things like the Kentucky Adventure Tour (KAT) will find it to be useful. Navigating the KAT requires...
It’s been a while. I last posted at the end of 2018. Honestly, I started a couple posts last year but they are still hanging around as a saved draft. Oh well. In early...
More thoughts on the Tour of Idaho . . . I’m still trying to determine when I will “unwind” from our 2018 Tour attempt. Honestly, the time I spend dealing with it in my...
A rundown of what happened . . . It had been my plan to do a blog post about each day on the Tour of Idaho but I felt like it was important that...
Some Tips & Tricks! Creating tracks for the Tour of Idaho from a set of provided waypoints is no small task. I’m a geographer, cartographer, and GIS professional, working with this type of data...
Why you need a dedicated navigation device for the Tour of Idaho Martin asked me to provide some guidance regarding dedicated navigations devices (GPS units) and smart phones, specifically, the roles these devices play...
As users of this nation’s public or private trails, Sharetrails.org/BRC members likely rely on a variety of mapping technologies for navigation. Being able to visualize where you are, and where you’re going is important....
November 1, 2017
Updated – 04/23/18 For many decades, the USGS Topographic Quadrangle Map series was “THE” base for anything mapping related. A wide array of Federal programs required that they be utilized for submittals, surveyors included...
August 18, 2016
Background A little over ten years ago an article entitled “GIS as a Utility: Kentucky’s Enterprise Implementation” appeared in Esri’s 2005 summer edition of ArcNews. The article provided an overview of Kentucky’s new Enterprise...
Well for the first time, Philip tagged along with us to do the Red Bird Crest Trail. He’d ridden a couple portions of it back in 2007 but that was over by the Begley...