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...

[ Update: find on my map blog the full story on how the video below was created ] Since www.zolnai.ca  will be the landing page for my n...

I tell people "I know just enough java to be dangerous", and it has served my well in my prior attempts logged in my old web page ...

A 'handy' is what Germans call a mobile or cell phone. I uploaded free ArcGIS for Android on my  smartphone, which now has a decent ...

[ Update:  Part II is on my Medium professional channel 2½ year later: Almost open data ] A lot of (virtual) ink has flowed around opening...

My first post on this theme traced beautiful medieval maps from the British library in London to the Harvard Libray online, to land on a...

My map catalog also works well to post new projects: added British Geological Survey web mapping services to East Anglia web map, in order t...

In my ongoing suite of posting webmaps in my new and fresh Mind the Map blog, here is another take on loading global vectore megadatasets b...

Happy New Year! Don't you think that 175 blog posts and almost 150,000 page views over 7.5 years merit a catalog of my maps? This a...

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

... or they are Man's best friend. I'm a big fan of the British Library, not only because it's next to Kings Cross station I ali...

I ran across these interesting web-mapping innovations - three on data consumption (multi-modal maps on steroids) and two on data creation (...

Here is a small selection of mapping tools available on the iPad. Some are from the Appstore, others simply from the web. These are screen...

Is it spring in the air or LinkedIn's new (to me) facility to post projects? Here is a round-up of various projects in the past five yea...

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 ...

I am so proud of my teams at client sites and in our office! One team achieved in 6 months at one site what many thought would take years - ...

HTML5 Canvas was a natural extension for giscloud.com :  Its distinction is to post vectors on the web, overlaying rasters like any GIS, and...

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...