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{ Monthly Archives } September 2009

Labour Day 2009

It’s Labour Day here. Thank you to all those who labour so hard to bring us our food! Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. ~Ovid

Arcview Oddities

Arcview suddenly stopped recognizing my MrSID files.  These .sid files provide the orthophoto backgrounds for most of my maps, so this is a major problem. I downloaded the MrSID files again so see if they’d been corrupted, checked the MrSID extension, and was contemplating a clean reinstall of ArcView 3.2, or the even more dismal [...]

Canadian Wheat Board WeatherBug network

I’ve talked about Manitoba Ag-Weather Stations and Environment Canada Weather Stations as good sources for historical weather data.  The Canadian Wheat Board also has the WeatherBug network of weather stations across Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta.  There also seem to be other stations in the network across Canada and the world, but the browser application didn’t [...]