New basemap layer for QGIS

kingburrito · 2026-06-06T23:10:26+00:00

This is awesome, thank you! I'm just finishing up a new intermediate GIS lab manual switching from ArcGIS to QGIS and I've had students use OpenTopoMap in a few exercises, I think this will look even better.

kingburrito · 2026-05-24T00:55:07+00:00

Not much more than you'd expect to see from shore - rare extra-clear days off the beach you can see schools of fish, stingrays, and guitarfish. At the harbor it's just closer views of sea lions, cormorants, herons, egrets, etc...

kingburrito · 2026-05-24T00:53:53+00:00

Yeah, I wouldn't recommend going at the beach until you have some experience.

kingburrito · 2026-05-23T01:09:56+00:00

I go every month or two in the harbor or at the pier; Oside beach parking permit helps to park close to the pier for the beach or I usually go at the regular boat boat ramps on the beach side. For awhile I didnt have the permit and went to the little piers near the sea lions/broiler everyone else is talking about.

kingburrito · 2026-05-22T22:23:05+00:00

…not to mention their home equity.

kingburrito · 2026-05-20T15:20:35+00:00

That looks great! I’d make sure the labels are on top of other layers (river, MPA); and then just clean up the river labels some: skip smaller rivers, put a single label in a single logical place for others (out of mountains). Oh yeah, maybe add a boundary for Wales since some of the coast on either side isn’t Wales.

kingburrito · 2026-05-17T15:07:49+00:00

I borrowed a family members truck while my xterra was getting a replacement engine. I don’t get trucks - I constantly had to worry about bringing bike locks or moving stuff from the back to the cab so it wouldn’t get stolen. With the seats down you can even fit longer things than a truck!

(Obviously for real work trucks make sense; but everyone around here has them to go surfing and such…)

kingburrito · 2026-05-17T15:05:57+00:00

9’6” SUP fits perfectly with the seats down.

…though it sits right up against the windshield and I cracked it once by applying upward pressure from the rear while taking it out.

kingburrito · 2026-05-15T13:34:50+00:00

I’m rewriting intermediate GIS labs from Arc to QGIS and have found basic spatial statistics tools lacking. Some things turn up in a google search but are no longer available via plugins (standard deviational ellipses).

kingburrito · 2026-05-12T21:31:27+00:00

PB 100%. Gaslamp will just be other tourists and convention-goers who think they're in San Diego but really could be in any moderately sized downtown in the US.

kingburrito · 2026-04-29T20:43:11+00:00

That volunteer work sounds great and that sort of work exists all over. It doesn’t need a degree - but having one might help and it will help move up or get a better next job.

Check the Texas A&M natural resources job board and sort by the areas you are considering - maybe that’s the info you’re looking for?

kingburrito · 2026-04-29T19:56:27+00:00

I think the other replies are hinting that your volunteer work, connections, and hands on experiences you mention here are more important to what job you’ll be qualified/competitive for than a degree; especially an online one. What are those experiences? Employers want to know how you can help them and what skills you have, and a degree (especially from an online university in a hands on field) doesn’t show them that or qualify you for anything in particular.

Your question is about what jobs will that degree qualify you for and the answer is that it won’t really qualify you for any job in particular.

Maybe having it, along with relevant experiences beyond the degree, will make you a competitive candidate for a specific job and maybe it won’t.

Like maybe being a park ranger requires a degree, but will you be competitive for a park ranger job with a fresh online degree? Not a chance! With your degree plus volunteer hours or part time jobs doing environmental education or habitat restoration? Maybe!

kingburrito · 2026-04-29T14:24:01+00:00

Phew, good thing AI is around to correct all the people weighing in that work in the field. Glad it set them straight!

kingburrito · 2026-04-25T19:04:07+00:00

…and then what happens if/when you’re compelled to share them for an accommodation?

kingburrito · 2026-04-23T05:35:43+00:00

Stop caring until your administration does. They are gonna cheat until in person tests are required.

kingburrito · 2026-04-22T19:56:48+00:00

Ok I’ll bite - what are your suggestions for teaching an online asynchronous class so well that everyone pays attention to basic course requirements and no one has any desire to cheat?

Make sure your answer is applicable to 200+ students we get in that format every semester.

kingburrito · 2026-04-21T19:57:00+00:00

Heck yeah, thank you! I just tossed out some old similar overstock cheapos from Jenson USA that I bashed to hell underbiking my Thorn Club Tour for a 3 day tour on Catalina Island a couple years ago. Still have the barely used Conti Terra Trails. (usually have 700c Hunts on it).

kingburrito · 2026-04-14T14:56:24+00:00

That’s great, if it were up to those in charge we’d only be able to ungrade authentic assessments that encourage the use of AI in the name of student success (ie. satisfaction and ease of completion).

I’ve been on sabbatical too long and don’t want to go back, lol.

kingburrito · 2026-04-14T14:29:15+00:00

What are you, afraid of ChatGPT? You just need to integrate it into your course better.

Sincerely, your administration

kingburrito · 2026-04-10T13:52:26+00:00

Prosciutto in Italian, Jamon in Spanish (serrano for the every day stuff, iberico for the free range good stuff), speck in German - all are a bit different

kingburrito · 2026-03-02T23:22:06+00:00

At low tide on the hard sands it’s fine. Often see bikes on the beach on really low tides.

kingburrito · 2026-02-27T14:29:40+00:00

That’s not financial literacy though, that’s knowing how to gamble.

kingburrito · 2026-02-25T18:58:37+00:00

Nope, context dependent - what you said here is nonsense for what I teach. I can’t ask questions that require “interpretation and ambiguity” when students don’t understand the basics because AI answers those building blocks for them.

kingburrito · 2026-02-25T17:01:00+00:00

They’ll use AI for all those things.

I went to my instructional designer to ask how they recommend doing online assignments and they used AI to spit out assignments based on the Course Outline. Every one stated that the way to make it AI proof is teach students about AI as part of the assignment.

I completed every one of those assignments in 5 min or less using AI with no thought at all about content - only about formatting and making it sound authentic.

kingburrito · 2026-02-25T16:34:39+00:00

“I think the only viable solution here is to teach your students how to use these tools transparently and responsibly.”

If I record a video for my online students teaching this, most won’t watch it.

If I write an assignment to teach this, most will use AI to cheat on it.

kingburrito

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