🌎 Don Meltz

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It's what I do.
I make maps, and I grow things.

Climate Smart Coordinator
Senior Planner
Columbia County, NY

- Sustainable Community Planning
- Spatial Analysis
- Less Politics
- More Geo

@geo-don.bsky.social

Website/Bloghttps://www.donmeltz.com
Columbia County GIShttps://cc-ny.maps.arcgis.com
Columbia County Climate Smarthttps://climatesmart.columbiacountyny.com/
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Installed Scrivener on my laptop yesterday. An interesting piece of software. I can think of multiple ways of using it, other than writing a novel.

RE: https://mapstodon.space/@kgjenkins/116202460821346988

This - is the constant, eternal, never-ending problem with using ALL GIS desktop software.

So, this morning I woke up to my iPad alarm, which I did not have to reset. Drove to work on a bright sunny day. Arrived at work with my computer clock set to the correct time. Tonight it will be light out until 7:00 pm.
I did have to reset my vehicle clock ahead 1 hour which took 4 button presses. So, yeah. That's a reason to hate DST. ???
Welcome to the world, little one.

I recieved an email tonight that a suggestion I posted 16 years ago was marked as closed 34 months ago.
Way to stay on top of things, ESRI.

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/arcgis-explorer-add-functionality-found-in-aejee/idc-p/1687540#M37648

Apparemtly, this ad was not a big winner for Amazon:
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My dad was an avid car and automobilia collector. He had well over 200 signs in his collection when he passed last year. Many of them will be going to auction on Feb. 21st at Copake Auctions in Copake NY. There is online bidding, if you're interested.
His items start at Lot #68. Signs at Lot # 79. Toys start at Lot # 120.
https://www.copakeauction.com/auction/2026-02-21-auto-toy-auction/
Rectifying voter addresses for our Board of Elections.
A voter registered with an address of "25 Darren Road". There is no Darren road in the county. However, there is a 25 Fox Hill Road tax parcel, with a 911 address point of 25 Plainville Road, and the property is owned by the Darren family.
Yes, let's throw this mess caused by three departments not talking to each other at the GIS guy. He can fix anything!
(Names have been changed to protect the innocent)