Andrew Zolnai Blog

Four weeks ago I blogged here about the availability of open data, posting it on the open web and its potential social impact. Two weeks ag...

Update 5: read here my  new occupation inspired by this 18 months later Update 4: for a predictive app using Esri & Alexa, see this e...

And now for something completely different - the original posts until Part VI are listed below - I ran across a nice map of Steve Feldman &#...

Three months into posting data on my web service - Part V - I created a short list of free data for Great Britain on my Map Catalog called ...

[ Update: climate data (wind speed & direction) have now been added in short & long posts ] I originally extracted CLIWOC ( CLI...

My previous post on this topic stated how careful documentation and appropriate metadata high-grades any information that is shared online ...

It took five days (after hours) to stand up, learn, tweak and display my East Anglia Fenlands project on Mapcentia's web service . It st...

Releasing data really works , Continued RSPB 2013 Big Garden Bird Watch released data by county, listing bird counts for each county in o...

[ Update: I noted on many of my Google Fusion Table posts that, while the data are still on Google Drive for you to view, GFT no longer of...

[ Update:  I noted on many of my  Google Fusion Table posts  that, while the data are still on Google Drive for you to view, GFT no longer o...

Three years into moving to my blog page, here are a few stats on pageviews. Thanks to everyone especially @google, @slashgeo and @cageyjames...

Continuing the ongoing (re)discovery of cool maps for the rest of us, here are two I found on Facebook from my friends Christophe Staff in ...

Last week I reported Google Maps' released of multimodal transportation mapping in the greater London UK area (GLA). I mused that this ...

Google multi-modal maps are so significant to greater London Area commuters that I cannot pass it up. Ed Parsons posted it on his blog and ...

[2013 update: Socium is now 1SpatialCloud ] Three weeks ago  I introduced Socium's Online Validation Service (OVS). I showed the Ordna...

[ Update: follow ups for this project are Releasing Data Really Works Part I and Part IV ] Following vector maps on the web (cloud futur...

[Update 2:  layer package can now be found as  Teapot Dome Six Pack  on  PUG Online Update: RMOTC was sold off in 2015, their ftp site is ...

Last week I posted dust and wind data germane to Kuwait in my banner map. This week take the same layers and mash them up with another servi...

Dust storms are what you look out for in Kuwait. The banner map was a very simple way for me to create my own weather map: where are the d...

[ Update : Part IV , more on mapping earth gravity ] The time-space map I looked for in Part II is on esri.com... among many others for ...