by Matt Ball on September 15, 2010
Peter Batty, founder and VP of Ubisense, gave the keynote this morning at the GIS in the Rockies meeting in Loveland, Colo. Batty last addressed this group in 2002, and the changes in the interim provided the focus for his talk. The disruption of Google for pervasive and easily accessible geospatial capability was mentioned as [...]
by Matt Ball on March 11, 2010
The U.S. Census Bureau is hard at work on the 2010 Census, fighting technological hurdles and an apparent malaise about being counted. In order to highlight the tradition of the these population counts that occur ever 10 years, the agency has put together some highlights for each of the 23 counts that have taken place [...]
by Matt Ball on September 5, 2008
This column is sponsored by ESRI The use of spatial information has reached a point of wide adoption, where online visualization of location information has become an expectation. There are many trends in the use of spatial information, some that have been building for a long time, and others that have emerged more recently. All [...]