HIFLD Open Is Dead*, Long Live HIFLD
Before it was HIFLD, it was briefly FGDWG. Before that, it was a nameless thing in its infancy. In those early days, it bounced around between conference rooms in Norfolk, Dahlgren, and Chantilly. I was fortunate enough to be in the rooms where it was born and took shape. I was a contractor supporting an organization that had been doing critical infrastructure vulnerability assessments for over a decade at that point.
https://blog.geomusings.com/2025/07/02/hifld-open-is-dead-long-live-hifld/
HIFLD Open Is Dead*, Long Live HIFLD
Before it was HIFLD, it was briefly FGDWG. Before that, it was a nameless thing in its infancy. In those early days, it bounced around between conference rooms in Norfolk, Dahlgren, and Chantilly. …
Who wore it better?
left: Gmail
right: Outlook
Who decided that people should be able to control the fonts and font sizes in the e-mails they send, when in fact people are unable to control the fonts and font sizes in the e-mails they send?
I spent about 5 minutes starting to see if I could improve it with just a few manual modifications, but quickly realized there is no obvious end to such a process, and that is not how I want to spend my time today.
Finland Launches Modern Topographic Data System – Built on Open-Source QGIS | Positio
This new open-source based system enables more efficient and up-to-date maintenance of the national topographic data and the production of general map products.
Ideally, there would be variant of the TSP solver where additional costs could be assigned to network lines going through buildings. (The TSP tools we used don't actually accept any network input, and simply use the point coordinates.)
Although the TSP order is generally pretty good for numbering points, I'm still not completely happy with it. I'm sure it would make more sense, to someone walking around to these trees with the map, if trees 1,2,3 were grouped with 153,154,etc and trees 4,5,6,7 were inserted into the sequence with other trees in the circle.
Imagine what could be done if countries would commit 5% GDP to defense ... against climate change
Here I am, yet again, sending out warnings that the "meters" units of EPSG:3857 are not true meters, unless you are at the equator.
Bill Dollins
QGIS