Huch! I totally forgot about you all, to write my “Welcome back to Germany” post. To summarise all, I can say that I really did not want to leave nice Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America. Deep inside I cried but in the end it wasn’t that bad at all when I arrived in Düsselsorf. My last nights I spent with Daniel in Mauro’s Couchsurfing home because I had to leave my previous couch unexpectedly. It was the right decision because Mauro turned out to be a god of mate. Never met anyone else before who can teach you the philosophy of drinking Argentinian mate with such a passion. You want to study, to live Argentina? Take your first lesson with Mauro, though for me it was the last.
I bought an extra bag only to take around 13 kg of mate home to Germany. There were not the slightest problems declaring my customs. I simply did not declare anything. But as I read somewhere there are no strong restrictions importing tea in huge amounts into the EU, it only may not exceed the value of 430 Euro which it did not.
The first thing you notice when coming back from the dry Patagonian desert into the German fresh spring is some kind of ubiquitous green slime, filled with never ending background concerts of local winged somethings. Wow. This Münsterland here has a special charm you won’t find anywhere else. Light greenly glowing fields merge into full juicy deep green forests when you cruise around outside of the wannabe-cities. Mmmmhm … jummy jummy
The past few weeks back in Germany I spent with finishing my Venezuelan project, migrating all collected geodata into a clean database, building some maps for online publishing purposes and finally playing around frustratedly with ESRI’s ArcGIS Server to get the things accessible from the World Wide Web. I stepped deep into server administration which was rather new to me but I hate it. All these necessary rights managements to get things to work … it’s boring. Either the firewall or some user accounts steal days and days of your free time, you forget to eat, to sleep, … Blöäh!
The final web application will be updated and bug-fixed from time to time. I still have to adjust the look and feel of the maps but for every publishing step I have to recalculate all the small image tiles which are used by the server to produce the map output. Recreating this cache keeps my laptop busy for three days each time, so I definitely will not do it frequently
If you are interested in accessing the WebGIS, post a comment and I’ll mail you the login information. Some day the access will be free.
My attached photos will show my very few impressions of Buenos Aires. In future this blog will be silent. May be there are following others about coming trips, or a pure photo blog in cooperation with my dear friend Kono. But one of my visions is to recapture my best past trips and produce something like a retrospect, underlined with amazing photos and sharp short stories I underwent. Time consuming mind breaking ideas I have …
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