Andrew Zolnai Blog

Story map to wrap a complex technical dataset into easy-to-follow steps. Opening video helps reach out to board rooms or town halls alike.

[Note:  this complements Part III of  A Day in the Life of...   ongoing blog post series here]

[2018 Update -  presented at AAPG Visiting Geoscientist Program in Budapest in 2015 and Szeged in 2018 with open data for 2014 and  2018 . ...

[ Update: posted here an even simpler workflow that reads government data direct from web] This is Part II of a A day in the life of  pos...

[ Update: a simpler workflow that uses  for-fee & for-free software is posted  here ] After intoducing the process to extract, trans...

[ Update: Talend made the  early version complex, so  simpler  one was posted later ] Have you ever been given plain text geodata and wo...

... at least in oil&gas. I always wondered why petroleum was only 5% Esri's market (unofficial from my tenure as petroleum manager t...

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...

Attended this small and personable show and met some friends old and new - vendors were invited into the talks and plenty of time was left i...

TS Eliot's header quote indicates that I'm back home again: to bridge geoscience and GIS in petroleum I've done for a while now ...

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

A few months ago I signed up for Area 51 Satck Exchange for GIS , and it has impressive statistics indeed. Soon after, however, short holida...

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

Recent web hit statisitics show the power of press releases (PR) in Oilvoice and FindingPetroleum (née Digital Energy Journal) to push tr...

My talks at FindingPetroleum and PPDM presented the impact of the new web in petroleum.

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

Last week I presented at the PPDM London User Group Meeting, and the week prior at Finding Petroleum's (FP) January Conference.

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...

It's a common geo-rant (thanks AGI'09 ) that metadata cause alternatively boredom or angst among geo-geeks - why? because we know ou...