Map Making

Here we are, Christmas Eve and Laura and I still have some Christmas shopping to do. Good thing we are not having our family Christmas for another two weeks, when my sister comes back from Idaho. We have most of our shopping done though, but still a few loose ideas on presents to finish our shopping with.

I have been doing some odds and ends at work, getting caught up with projects and brainstorming other things to do or attempt to do. One of my projects has been designing a 3D computer model of the districts landscape. It's in the first stages, but some things are starting to come together. It's interesting to see the wide range of geography just within our district.

I have been doing some experimenting with some of our GIS (Geographical Information System) program that I use at work. Some things are understandable but others take some practice, and so I have been doing some practicing. I made a map of Nebraska and used the geocaches we have found and placed within the state. There are several programs that will do this for me, but manually working with the information can be more rewarding and can help to understand the information more clearly. Here's the simple map I came up with quick.
The red dots are geocaches we have found. It's quite obvious we hang out right around Kearney a lot, but we have also done a fair amount of traveling around in the Panhandle as well. Interstate 80 is pretty easy to see as it goes west from Kearney. The green dots, which are a littel difficult to see, are geocaches we have hidden. We have hidden 7 in Nebraska - we had three or four in Montana, those were adopted by one of our geocaches friends in Missoula. Here is another map that shows the counties we have geocaches in.The exception is Logan county, we actually have only hidden a geocache there, not found one...

Well, that's the news for now. Tomorrow is Christmas and we are headed to the Sandhills, just like we have done the past 26 years.

Have a Merry Christmas!

Until again

-=Nolan=-