As a joke we once said that: “the student has become the master”. In recent history I have had amazing mentors who have helped steer what has almost always been my vision to the point where we are nearing reality. My most recent mentor is a HUGE proponent of Open Source technology, of which I have never been super fond of, mostly because I am not developer enough yet to leverage the full capabilities of the technology. However, the reality exists that the world I model is by and large owned by a single proprietary source company and we only get extend their product. That still offers a number of exciting opportunities, especially with the way that we communicate geospatial information.
I’ve taken way too long to write this entry (going on a week or a little over), and my intent here wasn’t to discuss my developing knowledge of the open source options for geospatial information technologies, there are better individuals to carry that message; my intent is to give a quick thank you to the people that have helped get me to this point. I can’t discuss this without mentioning how I’d still be contemplating soils research or applicationns of satellite imagery to blah blah blah, if it weren’t for the help of the Research Manager at Akron. I’m grateful that with his guidance I was able to congeal the randnomness of mycareer and skill sets into a single message/ goal.
Thanks to all of you!
