Every engineer eventually outgrows text. Git LFS is what stops that growth from killing Git itself. The Moment of Discovery I’ve used Git for years and I thought I knew it. Until someone mentioned Git LFS. Large File Storage. Three words that sound like something I should have cared about long ago but didn’t. I’ve never used it. Never needed
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The Temptation It always begins the same way. You open a browser for something innocent. Maybe to check a reference. Maybe to confirm a version number. Then it appears.A new Esri Press title glowing on your screen like salvation. Getting to Know ArcGIS Enterprise. Ninety-nine dollars and ninety-nine cents. Hardcover for one fifty-nine if you hate your wallet enough. You
Data quality is not a feature you turn on. It’s a discipline you build into every edit, every rule, and every record. Introduction For this tutorial, you help the City of White Rock improve the quality of its streetlight inspection data in ArcGIS Pro. Each pole has four inspection tests: hammer, pole, wiring, and panel. Each test is scored from
Intro Multispectral scanning allows for the acquisition, display, and interpretation of the thermal properties of the Earth’s surface. Many multispectral systems sense radiation not only in the visible and reflected infrared but also in the thermal infrared range (3 μm – 15 μm). Thermal remote sensing differs from optical imaging: it measures emitted energy rather than reflected sunlight. The boundary
I get asked a lot as to why GIS. Why study it when I already hold a Master’s in Cybersecurity and more IT degrees and certs than anyone cares to count. By now I could have stopped. I could have sat back, waved the certificates, and called myself an expert. But here is the truth. I do not consider myself
Mention the years 1905, 1939, and 1959 in the opening lines of a geography paper and most readers will roll their eyes, expecting some crusty old theory from the 1960s gathering dust in the archives. But Pattison’s Four Traditions of Geography refuses to be a relic. It is the skeleton that still props up the flesh of the discipline. And
Fall does not arrive with leaves. It arrives with latency, pop-up reminders, and professors who post the syllabus three days late and still expect you to be early. There is no chill in the air. Only dread. The kind that smells like old textbooks and tastes like stale coffee. I return to battle. Again. Another graduate program. This time in
Look, I’m not here to sell you anything. I’m not sponsored. I don’t get a commission. In fact, if Esri ever sent me a free sticker, I’d frame it out of shock. But here’s the deal: we use Esri. Not because it’s cheap. Not because it’s perfect. But because when you’re running GIS for a public utility, local government, or
When I created this earthquake risk map for Assignment 4 of my GIS course, I wasn’t just pushing polygons—I was illustrating potential disaster zones. Using data from heavy hitters like USGS, Esri, and NOAA, I mapped out where the United States literally stands on shaky ground. What’s On the Map? This map, titled “Earthquake Risks in the United States,” visualizes
When the world shut down in 2020, most people were panic-buying toilet paper. I, on the other hand, was busy making maps. Not just any maps—quantitative thematic maps that could tell a story more compelling than any infographic ever could. Armed with ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Pro, and a nerdy love for cartographic detail, I created a visual narrative of California’s