Geospatial Technologies Attract Everyone


“Geospatial Technologies Attracts Everyone” was intended to be a long article about the “geospatiality of all things” but I’ve opted to break once article into a series, mostly for easier reading, but also to publish more frequently. THE GEOSPATIALITY OF EVERYTHING Everything is location. Or, location is everything. All things are spatial. A thought occurred…

Building Consensus for an Idea Lab


I spend a considerable amount of class time each semester advocating “geography is a holistic discipline, infused in all things and in almost every action or choice made, and not merely by people but by all organisms. Geography is inescapable.” The problem with my perspective is many other disciplines could be argued to have the…

>Yahoo NewsGlobe


>Is this the twilight of Geographic Illiteracy? Eventually, perhaps not with my generation; some of them still go kicking and screaming to the fountain of knowledge and refuse to drink. Perhaps the day is coming, though, when the omnipresence of technology will be so great that one must actually live in a cave not to…

>Google + YouTube = GoogleTube


>GoogleTube – that is my word for what happens when you allow people to geotag their videos. I have been ranting about this for about a month, since classes began. Which is funny, as I had no idea this was in the works at YouTube, as my site visits to YouTube can be counted on…