Andrew Zolnai Blog

It's a common geo-rant (thanks AGI'09 ) that metadata cause alternatively boredom or angst among geo-geeks - why? because we know ou...

Set Theory was the first disruptive technology I experienced as a boy - perhaps my web diagram to the right was influenced by that? As it t...

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

Further comparing two industries, after WWII the US interstate highways created a transportation backbone originally lobbied for by the aut...

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...

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...

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

... always an entrepreneur: 20+ years ago I started up then wound down my own petroleum GIS firm in Calgary, Canada.

As tweeted on 18 August, Mappliances = Map + Appliance: when the geospatial disappears behind, or is blended into the information stream. A...

My intruductory posting showed some of the webmaps I easily created from open source and other tools using publicly available data. I tweet...