Columns

• June 15, 2013Programming/Dev, Reviews

  Book Corner: Programming ArcGIS 10.1 with Python Cookbook

  My fairly constant position now-a-days is “late to the game” and in this case that means that there are plenty of folks who have already shared their thoughts on Programming […]

• February 18, 2013GIS_Software, Programming/Dev, Reviews

  Book Review – Python Scripting for ArcGIS

  Python Scripting for ArcGIS is a new text from Esri Press by Paul A. Zandbergen (2013). It isn’t the first Python book for the geospatial community or even focused on […]

• February 4, 2013Columns, Feature, LostInTheVirtualFog

  Lost in the Virtual Fog – …And a Lean to the Right

  In the first half of my column a while back on the changing ways in which we interact with our computers, I focused on touch and its increasing adoption as […]

• April 3, 2012Columns

  Focusing on the New GIS End-User

  We’ve talked in this blog about how mapping in the cloud has gone mainstream. How cloud computing has turned the world of GIS on its head, bringing a flood of […]

• October 28, 2009general, Reviews

  Book Review – The Complete Guide to Simulations and Serious Games

  As I have gone down the road in researching and writing about virtual worlds and serious games, one of the biggest issues for me has been the lack of a […]

• February 12, 2009Columns, general

  Teaching geospatial today…

  I have had a chance to crash a few classes this semester both out of town and here on campus and I have used this as an opportunity to rethink […]

• July 11, 2008Columns, Reviews

  GIS for Web Developers write up

  GIS for Web Developers: Adding Where to your Web Applications by Scott Davis The Pragmatic Publisher, Raleigh, NC ISBN-10: 0-9745140-9-8 ISBN-13: 978-0-9745140-9-3 October 2007 The book GIS for Web Developers: […]

• November 17, 2007Columns, GeographyAwareness

  Uses of Geography

  Time to wrap it all up with Element 6: The Uses of Geography. That’s right it is the last day people and it is time to consider how we can […]

• November 16, 2007Columns, GeographyAwareness

  Environment and Society

  Element 5: Environment and Society is tied to human-environment interaction and the first two standards are essentially mirror images. How Human Actions Modify the Physical Environment How Physical Systems Affect […]

• November 15, 2007Columns, GeographyAwareness, Human Geography

  Human Systems

  We are back with day four of the Geography Standards which brings us to the humans. Element 4: Human Systems contains 5 standards on its own, which makes sense since […]