Custom Toppling Tower Set

Just like a giant Jenga set, but that name is trademarked.

Convert a DEM file from Meters to Feet in QGIS

While the metric system is great, I live in America, the land of the imperial system. In projects where I want to take DEM GeoTIFFs and create labeled…

Returning a git log value for use in a script

By default, git logĀ output is displayed in less. But what if we want to use that value in a script? You can add the –no-pagerĀ flag as part of…

What is an Encoded Polyline?

In a nutshell: an encoded polyline is a set of coordinate pairs (of a line or shape) which have been converted to an ASCII string to significantly reduce the overall…

Getting GPSd to work with Python and Threading

I bought a few Raspberry Pis with great ambition of doing something awesome with them. Beyond showing my co-workers how cool I was for having them, the Raspberry…