Or do we?
Or better yet, what I’d really like to know, do I?
Over the last few weeks I’ve been organizing and filling out the applications for a couple of professional certifications: the APA’s American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) and the GIS Certification Institute’s Geographic Information Systems Professional (GISP). I have been working as an [...]
As most of my followers on Twitter already know, I’ve been playing around with my new toy the last couple of weeks: a Trimble Juno SB GPS, running ArcPad 8. So far, I am very happy with my decision to buy this unit. It has been some work to get to know the ArcPad software, [...]
What is the state of GIS, and where is it going?
Wow, is it even possible to answer that? It seems to be the perpetual question asked at every GIS conference, and embedded into every keynote address given at them. In an attempt to describe the state of GIS, some (many?) are using the terms Paleo and [...]
On September 30th, I was invited to participate in ESRI’s ArcGIS 9.4 beta program. I’ve never been involved with a beta program before, so I was (and still am) quite excited to be participating in testing the next version of the one program I use more often than any other. Since I am a total [...]
My latest lesson in GIS came from Twitter
More difficult than deciding what to write about in my first blog post, has been deciding what to write about in my second. I want to keep some sense of continuity in my writing, and briefly thought about describing my learning progress and work experience through the years. [...]