Re: [Texascavers] sort of A.S.S. related

[Bob Booth via Texascavers]

David,

Here's Alan's web page...
http://alanglennon.com/

Best,
Bob

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> On Oct 17, 2016, at 6:37 PM, David via Texascavers 
>  wrote:
> 
> I saw a 4 old former A.S.S. members at TCR.
> 
> John Gale was there from the 1974 era, along
> with another guy whose name escapes me at the
> moment that still lives in College Station ( I think ).
> 
> Alan Montemayor was there briefly and I think he was
> from around the 1977 era.
> 
> John Brooks was there and I think he was from the 1979
> era.
> 
> Myself who was active from 84 to 88, semi-active from 89-92,
> and very active in 1993.
> 
> Other A.S.S. members I sometimes see at TCR would have
> been Travis Scott, Will Harris and Travis Kitchen, but they
> were not there.
> 
> So other than the current group of A.S.S. members from
> both College Station and Galveston, did I miss anybody ?
> 
> I guess I am concerned that from 1980 to about 2010, maybe there
> was a 30 year gap of very little or zero representation.   I hope that 
> is not the case. Hopefully, some of those people are still involved
> in caving somewhere. I am pretty sure Alan Glennon from the 1993
> era is still caving and up in the Kentucky area.
> 
> I guess it is somewhat sad that even with social media, it is either 
> very difficult to track potential attendees down to invite them or just
> to check on them, or that it is nearly impossible.But you would think
> that it least some of the officers or the more serious cavers in the group
> would still be around.   Right ?For example,  Chris Sobin.   Anybody heard
> from him in 25 years ?? Pete Baron ??   Anybody heard from him in 20
> years ?
> 
> Charles Fromen was there, and he was an Aggie caver back in the 60's, 
> but the club officially did not form until 1973.   He still counts though.
> 
> There were cavers there that once attended a class or a semester at
> AI will let them respond if they wish.
> 
> Feel free to correct me on any of that.
> 
> David Locklear
> A.S.S. Vice-President ( 1987 )   [ we had 2 people in the grotto, LOL ! ]
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Re: [Texascavers] Fwd: Special Journal Issue About Drones in Archaeology

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Interesting.  I'm surprised none of the articles mention the Open Source
"OpenDroneMap" project, software for processing drone imagery to create
terrain models and tile the imagery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UctfoeNB_Y
https://github.com/OpenDroneMap/OpenDroneMap

Stephen Mather just presented on it at the 2016 Midwest SCGIS Symposium.
https://www.scgis.org/conference/pages/keynotedetails/confid/26

Esri also has a new product for this:
http://www.esri.com/products/drone2map

Cool stuff.

Bob

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On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 9:50 PM, Logan McNatt via Texascavers <
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> Forwarding this message from the Texas Archeological Society.
> Information that cavers might find useful when using drones.
>
> Logan McNatt
> lmcn...@austin.rr.com
>
> The March 2016 open access issue of The SAA Archaeological
> Record discusses how drones can be used in archaeology and
> software for processing data collected from drones. It also
> discusses the limitations and legal concerns in using drones in
> the United States.
>
> The special issue is:
>
> Drones in Archaeology. Special Issue
> The SAA Archaeological Record Number 2, March 2016
> digital edition - http://onlinedigeditions.com/publication/?i=293420=1
> PDF version -
> http://www.saa.org/Portals/0/SAA/Publications/thesaaarchrec/SAA_Record_March2016.pdf
> link -
> http://www.saa.org/AbouttheSociety/Publications/TheSAAArchaeologicalRecord/tabid/64/Default.aspx
>
>
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[Texascavers] Houston grotto folks

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Just read about this - maybe something for the GHG to work on:
http://swamplot.com/now-hiring-tour-guides-for-the-abandoned-1927-cistern-buried-along-buffalo-bayou/2016-03-10/___
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Re: [Texascavers] [SWR] public lands encounter

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You don't have to have ArcGIS to view/use the data offline (though if you
do, it is a great tool).
ArcGIS Explorer Desktop (Free, Esri) lets you add locally stored shapefile
and GDB data. (http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/explorer-desktop)
QGIS (Free, Open Source) supports locally stored shapefiles. (
http://www.qgis.org/en/site/)

Bob

On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 6:16 PM, Stephen Fleming via Texascavers <
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> On 1/4/2016 14:14, Charles Goldsmith wrote:
>
>>  I'm not sure how often the maps are updated
>>
>
> BLM maps are updated on irregular schedules that usually are dictated by
> how much needs correcting. Some maps go many years without changes.
>
> Generally, unless there is an active land swap ongoing (a years-long
> process), or you are very near urban areas where parcels are made available
> for municipal purposes or cleaning up irregular, isolated tracts hard to
> efficiently manage, the accuracy tends to be good and stable.
>
> You also can go the the BLM GIS site, where you can see all sorts of data,
> including surface ownership (with the usual caveats that 100% accuracy is
> not guaranteed).
>
> If you want to use it offline you'll need a copy of ARCGis ($$$) but it's
> an interesting site to poke around.
>
> Here's a couple of the many links there.
>
> http://www.geocommunicator.gov/GeoComm/lsis_home/home/
> http://www.geocommunicator.gov/GeoComm/whatsnew.htm
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