Tales of Wrangling Geodata

Here are some discoveries, experiences and thoughts about working with information technology and geographic data with an emphasis on free and open source software.

• 07 Jun 2026 » Emacs Will Survive
• 02 Jun 2026 » Tech Tip: When Pasting UTF-8 into Terminal Emacs Doesn't Work
• 30 May 2026 » Paul's Introduction to Geminispace
• 07 Sep 2025 » Return access to Puget Sound QGIS User Group blog archive
• 06 Sep 2025 » Memory Hole
• 20 Nov 2019 » Down the Emacs Rabbit Hole
• 06 Jun 2018 » QGIS: A Free and Open Source Geographic Information System
• 01 Feb 2018 » A Government Worker at SOTMUS 2017
• 17 Feb 2017 » Dillinger.io - A Quick Way to Edit Markdown
• 16 Feb 2017 » MySQL: What in the Hell is the --secure-file-priv option?
• 11 Nov 2015 » Exploring Relations in QGIS
• 09 Aug 2015 » Make A Custom Symbol for QGIS
• 17 Jul 2015 » Let's Access Some Proprietary Data Formats
• 17 Jul 2015 » First Post
• 07 Jul 2015 » Puget Sound QGIS User's Group
• 30 Sep 2014 » 2014 FOSS4G Notes
• 10 Aug 2014 » Correct Addressing Is In The Details

Find me around the internet:

• mccombs-kingco@GitHub
• geodatawrangler@GitHub.
• paulmccombs@sdf.org Geminispace

Meet me in and around Seattle at:

• OpenStreetMap Seattle
• MaptimeSEA
• Cascadia Users of Geospatial Open Source (CUGOS)
• Puget Sound QGIS User's Group (PSQGIS) On hiatus looking for a new organizer