Andrew Zolnai Blog

[ 20/05/2016 update: noticed the dearth of social feeds? People are busy fleeing the area! Also come back often as, sadly, fires that reced...

25 years ago this week, I left the Natural Resources Canada to start a business with Teknika. I was encouraged (if not pushed) along by a f...

As the Arctic comes under more scrutiny in the news , I'm reminded of my visit up there 25 years ago when we actually thought of global ...

On my 100th posting last week I found some interesting statistics. I use Google's Blogger for its sheer simplicity. And I just found out...

Look at this map, and what it doesn't show is as instructive as what it shows. You guessed it, it's the low number of social media h...

Des Kilfoil at the CBC in Calgary, Canada introduced me 20-odd years ago to the 5Ws , the basic tenets of any investigative reporting, from ...

As I watch ESRI's 2010 User Conference remotely  via social media and my favorite bloggers like spatialsustain and spatiallyadjusted , ...

Building geoinfo from the ground up is patent in this Gov2.0 presentation on citizen-focussed geoweb at the Greater New Orleans Community ...

The beauty of maps is topical not only thanks to British Library's show Maginificent Maps . Gary Gale waxed rhapsodic on map as art , a...

There is a frantic discussion over the UK Government Data Developers mailing list, over freeing UK postcodes, after the recent freeze of t...

Set Theory was the first disruptive technology I experienced as a boy - perhaps my web diagram to the right was influenced by that? As it t...

I followed UK's premier GIS meeting hosted this week by AGI in Stratford-upon-Avon UK, on its excellent website and twitter ( #geocom ...

I spent a summer in the Arctic in 1986 , the year as Barry Lopez wrote a book titled as above. At a recent job in Kazakhstan, I met ice en...