Day: December 6, 2022

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Phil Ochs – No Christmas in Kentucky

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"Let's drink a toast to congress and a toast to Santa Claus, and a toast to all the speeches that bring the loud applause, there's not enough to give, no, there's not enough to share, so, let's drown the sounds of sorrow with a hearty Christmas cheer ...

"No, they don't have Christmas in Kentucky, there's no holly on a West Virginia door, for the trees don't twinkle when you're hungry, and the jingle bells don't jingle when you're poor ...

"Have a merry, merry Christmas and a happy new year's day, for now's a time of plenty and plenty's here to stay, but if you knew what Christmas was, I think that you would find, that Christ is spending Christmas in the cold Kentucky mine."

Why power flickers in severe weather. ⚡

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Why power flickers in severe weather. ⚡

Typically a tree limb will hit a power line, which causes a short and a surge at substation which causes an auto resetting breaker to trip. If it’s a small enough limb , the voltage will burn up the limb or the force of the electricity will repel the limb.

Back at the substation auto resetting breaker will reclose and try again a few times to test if the momentary fault is corrected before finally shutting down the line until a technician can clear the fault.

Land Use, Orleans County, NY

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Orleans County west of Rochester along Lake Ontario has a lot of acres of field crops grown, except right on the Niagara Escarpment which is more infertile and rocky.

Opening E00 Files

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Programs that use GDAL as a back-end should be able to natively open .e00 files — for example QGIS, GRASS, SAGA, ogr2ogr, Python’s GeoPandas or R Statistical Programming’s sf package. This is a default built-in driver in GDAL.

If you have GDAL installed (which you may already have if you have any open source GIS software installed), you can also use ogr2ogr to do the conversion. Due to the limitations of Shapefiles, you it is better to convert to GeoPackage, as Arc/Info E00 files can have field names longer than 10-character long Shapefiles.

ogr2ogr output.shp input.e00 # note output comes before input

In the past, gdal didn’t have native E00 support but all recent versions do.

About the AVCE00 driver: https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/avce00.html

Programs that use GDAL as a backend: https://gdal.org/software_using_gdal.html

ogr2ogr man page: https://gdal.org/programs/ogr2ogr.html

Take a look at Spatial Reserves blog for some other options using an online converter if you don’t have the open-source stack installed your computer.