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These quips mean that, while we may have great tools for complex workflows, such as Mapping Well Data I'll present as AAPG Visiting Geo...

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

[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...

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 ...

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 ...

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&...

A fable by Paolo Coelho inspired this post, a follow-on to Part V . Here is an excerpt from his e-book Stories for Parents, Children and Gr...

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...

A quick follow-on to my series of same name posted here - I had a long email trail with a potential partner about serving up petrodata on t...