Wow, we get a full three seasons of weather this week. It was just wonderful yesterday, 71 degrees, and no wind at all. Today is slightly overcast and a high of 70 is forecast, but v ery windy today. Tomorrow is one more day of warm weather and windy, and in the late afternoon or evening rain comes in and the temps drop and it may have thunderstorms and then turn into snow, and for Thursday. Friday is back to sunny and mid 50s for the high.

So spring thunderstorms and then back sliding into winter, then back to fall weather.

going outside and yelling make up your mind will not help.

No but yelling at the clouds does make me feel better. And I yell at the dang snow to get off my driveway! I went out to get the mail and it is 70 degrees, windy as heck.

wear tight cloths or you might fly away.

It got warm, relatively speaking at 29*, here today, but 30+ mph winds again.

What thread is this? Its the longest running one on PPF i guess?
Its a lousy 8 degrees celsius here in Brussels and drizzling rain...

THe winds were 30 to 40 yesterday. It was 70 degrees or so, and skinny people needed to carry rocks in their pockets. I am safe from that need.

Today we have more warm weather until evening when the dang Canadian air gets here. A day of snow and the clear skies and 50 degrees. It sure beats last year's two weeks of misery and storms sucky weather.

Morning all. Currently 44 and cloudy here. This weekend I have one more trio over to the MIL's house to remove a porch swing. The possible new owner wants it gone.

My grandmother had a porch swing on the back porch. Several of the grandkids wanted it after grandma died. I don't even remember who got it. I sure did not want it.

We had one client order a bunch of printing of a site we flew last year. They are the original analog men. They print out a 8.5 xx11 on their color copier for a JPG file proof I sent them. Then they draw lines to show the area they want a print cropped to that area, and a size. Then scan it with the copied and email that from the copier for me to see. The site is in Texas, so north is never up, it is at an angle. Most of Texas ignores the cardinal directions and just builds in any ol' direction at all. They don't care about scale and that is great, because mapping programs all work with north as up.

Anyway I have to open the entire full res image, zoom into one area, the rotate the crop box to fit the area they want and cut it out. The full res image is 1.6 gig, then I rotate it in Photoshop to fit what they want, and send a "proof" of it. It is nice to have a fast computer. Just a few years ago rotating a large file 27 degrees would have taken hours. Now it is done is just a couple of seconds.

The rain came as predicted. .68 inches before the rain gauge on my Vantage Vue froze and stopped. 27 degrees now and no snow yet. It looks like we might just get a trace of snow, still too much, and back to clear sunny weather tomorrow.

Morning all. No such bad weather here today at least.

Golly, gosh darn, the snow all stayed north of us. Not a flake of that white crap that I can see. The sky is getting brighter, and the sun comes out tomorrow.

Then its a good day to nap!

Everyday is a good nap day!

yeah but now there is no snow to shovel

The sun is up, and the temps are rising!

I was digging around on one of the government aerial photography sites. The entire country is photographed on a rotating basis. State by state. Oklahoma was flown again in 2021. Both natural color, and color infrared. We don't have many customers that want CIR, so I just ignore it. I am downloading the entire state county by county. All 77 counties. It will be about 90 gig of data when all done. We have a few clients that want to see what is on a piece of property, but they are too cheap to pay for us to do a new flight. They want a file or sometimes a print that have certain GPS points shown and to a certain scale. I can show them that with free government images for not much money. It is not real high resolution, just a two foot pixel. We normally provide a 3 or 6 inch pixel.

Back in 2003 the company I worked for paid $125 per county for the same basic imagery. So instead of $9,625 and 77 CDs to store I just download it to my RIAD. I download the 2003, and several other years of imagery in the past. I prefer the free price and not the nearly 10 grand price.

I can download any county in any state.

Morning. Hope you don't over heat the wire all that downloading.

It is just strange to be able to sit at home, and download all that data, in a reasonable amount of time. I vividly remember the days of dialup and our little computer club was excited to get to only 12 minutes to download one megabyte. That was FAST! So 200+ hours to download a gagybyte speed. Of course my hard drive was only 78 MB back then. A gigabyte hard drive was just a dream.

The don't make it easy. The files are named in a goofy numbering system. Like every state, the counties have names. It would be logical and easy to use the name of the county. Instead they name the file "Ortho_1_1_hm_s_OK031_2021_2.zip" for Comanche county. I have to find the table that lets me know which county is which. I then rename the folder by county. And as a second bit of obfuscation. nowhere in the zip file of 11 files is the flight date mentioned. That is yet another secret file, and it takes mapping software to unlock that file to figure out what month and date that area was flown.

Oh, as an added bonus, they don't have the files in any order. Just random order to make it hard to figure out what to get next.

Nothing is ever easy is it?