Jul 18, 2018 7 min How to Make It Through the Esri User Conference Alive (and Thriving!) It's that time of year - when geogeeks from every industry descend on the heart of San Diego, California to soak up the sun and marvel at...
Jan 6, 2018 1 min 5 New Year's Resolutions for the Geographic Information System (GIS) Professional The days between January 1st and 31st are the best times to make - and sometimes break - your goals and resolutions for the coming months...
Apr 2, 2017 4 min 19 Going On 30: Geovisualization Apps and Web Map Wonders I have been writing a lot lately. Not here, because...well...you know. That would make sense. Instead, my buckets of wordy wisdom (read h...
Dec 12, 2016 3 min Graffiti Mecca: HOPE Outdoor Gallery It finally happened (and only took three years), but I made a trip to visit graffiti mecca. Better late than never, right? Austin, TX - a...
May 3, 2016 3 min Map Spotting: WE, Water, Earth Exhibit There are some facts about the person typing this to which only a select few are privy. One of these facts? My immense love of lattes fr...
Oct 13, 2015 12 min Advice to South Carolina Flood Victims: From Multiple Floodies on the East Coast and Gulf Coast Although not the GIS-centric or art-revolving -- or strange mutant hybrid of the two -- rantings typically associated with this blog, I'v...
Nov 8, 2013 4 min When It Comes To Cartography, Be So Good They Can't Ignore You Returning to my roots for this post (in more ways than one), I am going to explore the inevitable (although often overlooked) combination...
Nov 2, 2013 5 min Part 2: ArcGIS Online & The Utility Approach As promised in Part 1 of this AGOL series and a little overdue (a month between updates is pretty good, right? Wouldn't want to overwhelm...
Sep 24, 2013 4 min Part 1: ArcGIS Online & Food for Thought To kick off a two-post AGOL series (really it's just to avoid packing, let's be real), I'm going to talk about the consumers using GIS an...
Sep 16, 2013 3 min Wildfire Representation: Frightening or Soothing? Choosing symbology for maps can sometimes be a tricky business. When you're plotting the location of restaurants along a route, it's pret...