Andrew Zolnai Blog

Esri just updated its World Vector Basemaps (v.2) . I updated below the notoriously complex and details Aalan Archipelago offshore Turku, Fi...

Last week was the inaugural post of my catalog , highlighting maps from this blog in (very) roughly reverse chronological order. The second...

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

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

[ Update: ESRI blog post here for clear explanation and treatment of same, thanks Eileen Buckley! See also my ArcGIS Online / Amazon Web ...

[ 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...

For-free vs. for-fee is an issue that won't go away any time soon. I discussed this here before, and it came up recently with the adopt...

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

The recent announcement of data.gov.uk under none other than Tim Berners-Lee is a great step towards freeing UK data to the public - I won&...