Since President Obama has taken office it’s evident that his priority has been trying to figure out a way to aid a struggling US economy.  Not an easy task, and as a result some of our President’s initial policies and plans that brought him success in his presidential campaign have been put on the back [...]

In addition to the aforementioned map and datasets, I posted a blog a while back which had a map that I built showing the scope of the Appalachian Trail that runs through the eastern part of the US. I received several requests through blog reply and email to potentially find data that had the differnent [...]

One of the things that was driven home to me at AAG was how geographers and GIS folks have always treated geography as something explicitly separate and special. If you were not trained in spatial theory you probably should not be mucking about with the geographic aspects of things. When we want to find [...]