In my last blog post, I looked at places with the most $1 Million + Homes in order to get an idea of where more people will be affected by Obama’s tax increase. Since the election, some polls have come out giving an idea of how voters with different income levels voted. The CNN [...]
Continue Reading →I came across two different articles yesterday that really highlighted the difference in reception the GeoWeb has received within academia. The first was a pointer to a track on “Visualizing Scientific Data Using KML and Virtual Globes” at the American Geophysical Union meeting this December. In addition Google is sponsoring a competition [...]
Continue Reading →The Google GEO APIs team developed a KML Interactive Sampler page. Now people, who want to learn KML, can learn by examples. The Sampler page uses the Google Earth Plugin to demonstrate various features while displaying KML code.
Next week, George Mason University and the University of Virginia are celebrating GIS [...]
Continue Reading →On one of many flights this week I was asked the question, “what would you do with the $700 billion of bailout money?” Not an easy question to answer and there has been lots of arm chair quarterbacking on the topic. I’m hardly an expert on financial policy, but in short this was [...]
Continue Reading →I’m not really the romantic type but every now and again I feel it is nice to show the lady I love that she is special to me. Unfortunately, this is not always the easiest task and planning for a special night out can be frustrating. After working at FortiusOne for over a year it [...]
Continue Reading →Released this October, the MasterCard Emerging Markets Index highlights the 65 key cities that are driving growth worldwide. These countries are ranked according to their index score, derived by a panel of experts in the global economy. The report also features a look into specific factors that make each city important for corporations [...]
Continue Reading →I had the good fortune last week to be invited to the “Statistics from Space” workshop held by the Gates Foundation. “Statistics from Space” is a some what misleading name for the subject of the meeting: using remote sensing to help sustainable agriculture with a specific focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. It was a fascinating collection [...]
Continue Reading →At last a visual analytic to illustrate where all the skateparks in the United States are located. By geocoding the names and addresses of all the skateparks on the SkateBoardPark.com website, and loading the point data into Finder!, over 3,000 skateparks are represented by points on a [...]
Continue Reading →James Fee joins in and shares his insight on supporting ESRI’s Geodatabase format and how a File Geodatabase can be shared efficiently. He agrees that the more file formats supported by a GeoData application, the more likely people will use it.
The election rallied much excitement, perhaps due in part to several [...]
Continue Reading →The Elections are over and Barack Obama won. Aside from historic nature of electing our first African-American President, this election was also historic based on voter turn out and the technology that was used to help make the election possible and entertaining. This election was surrounded by new technologies and innovation, including Holograms [...]
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