Andrew Zolnai Blog

In the right hand margin my buttons have changed. One links to my LinkedIn Pulse :

Eighteen months ago, Google quietly deprecated its Maps API, and ESRI offered and alternative with ArcGIS Earth, then Mapbox and Carto in qu...

Hard to believe I started my first website in hand-written HTML code in Dallas 20 yrs ago! The original impetus was that at Landmark I had a...

I just posted on LinkedIn Pulse Opinions are free, but Facts are sacred , taking off from Simon Rogers ex of Guardian Data now at Google Dat...

[ 20/05/2016 update: noticed the dearth of social feeds? People are busy fleeing the area! Also come back often as, sadly, fires that reced...

As I went solo in the new year, I collected my previous works  also seen in the banner map gallery, and posted the Esri maps as a map story....

[ Update 2 : this map gallery is now the first pane of my personal portfolio ] [ Update 1: Apple iOS doesn't support Flash, please try...

Simple story maps help scientists make important work a lot more relevant to their audience, by putting their story at the front. The maps ...

[Oct 2012 update: Here is an example on how much further map stories can be taken] Here is another simple example of posting data as maps...

Bridging the gap between desktop and on-line GIS follows the  first  and  second  instalment, online vector GIS and spatial data validation...

[ 30 Sept. udate: I posted my Google Page Rank to the right: its jump from 2 on my website to 4 here is a further indication of how dynami...

Current affairs bring such beauty on the web in the form of maps! The exhilerating is what makes the news, and that can be both joyful and sad.

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

Friends went to see Avatar the movie in 3D, while I saw it in 2D. We met to compare and contrast, mostly in regards to how technologies have...

"Geo busters!" (apologies Ghost Busters ). Geodata access and availability is the real story behind the flurry of news around UK g...

Issues with Google's maps are aplenty, as Peter Batty , James Fee and others piped up amidst flurry of crowd-sourcing and free-sourcin...

I posted earlier a webmap, quickly created to illustrate a point about the 2016 Olympic bid. I parlayed the custom symbology and list files...

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

What mixed messages last week about what makes a succesful GIS division! On one hand CH2M Hill spun off Critigen , on the other Balfour Beat...

I tweeted earlier on Mappliance = Map + Appliance , where maps blend into applications imperceptibly; I found two such instances just today:...