Andrew Zolnai Blog

The Association for Geographic Information Geocom2017 gathered at the Geographical Society in London late last October. Its Lightning Talks...

Last I posted on vector online GIS, and that appears to be gaining traction. Mapbox offers through TileMill and OpenStreetMaps editing. Thes...

A map slide show  last year tracked dust and wind storms in Kuwait. I simply refocused it on the Gulf of Mexico to track the tropical storm ...

You will have noticed that the banner picture is now a dynamic map... The monsoon season has passed and the hurricane season is starting: So...

The issue of how to write-to and read-from geographic databases has been around for quite some time. Esri shapefiles were a runaway success ...

I'm baaack! Here is the web mapping service directly in ArcGIS Explorer (AGX). This was posted two weeks ago as a layer package on arcg...

As I'm off for two weeks you get next week's posting today! Following last week's blogpost on Esri's beautiful ocean base m...

James Fee cracks me up every time. First he does not dance on ArcObjects' grave but praises it, secondly he exults Google Earth Build...

Just posted my two-page extract from the June issue of Digital Energy Journal : We are going to see much more improved "metadata" ...

The FOSS4G conference early this month in Barcelona raised a host of issues as usual. One picked up by James Fee and Jo Cook 's blogs ...

Time for reflection coming up to the anniversary of reconnecting with my current business partner David Lloyd to help oilelefant to market.

Facebook/twitter diary excerpt from an information manager: Vast majority of information is not held on computers but in people's heads ...

Continuing on my "tale of two" series - conferences , cities and systems - here are current affairs promised in my previous bl...

Recent groundbreaking news abounds, and both an exciting and challenging times lie ahead.

Geo-meta-data news flashes: quickly access web resources regardless of resource location via ESRI's geoportal extension free metadata to...

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

Tim O’Reilly started the Web 2.0 movement via eponymous show a few years ago. Gov 2.0 was his iteration of same in Washington DC last week...