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My son decided to change majors from biodesign to GIS. I had a short moment when I almost told him not to bring all this on himself but then thought differently. I could use my years of experienc...

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I’ve talked about Natural Language Processing (NLP) before and how it is beginning to change the BIM/GIS space. But NLP is just part of the whole solution to change how analysis is run. I look ...

https://spatiallyadjusted.com/natural-language-processing-is-all-talk/

I think you can usually tell when a GIS Professional learned GIS by how they use their keyboard. Those who learned either on UNIX command line programs such as ArcInfo or GDAL seem to go out of t...

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The other day I posted about using Turf.js to perform some simple GIS processes.  The venerable Brian Timoney made note of it. Interesting that both @cageyjames & @billdollins have blogged prefe...

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If there is one thing I’ve learned over the years it is that workflows are critical to creating a repeatable, defensible process.  The thing with GIS is that we’ve got to use so many differe...

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Adobe blogs about it. Link – Making inroads Modern mapmaking now starts with GIS data from state or local government that includes way more information than you really want. The task nowadays i...

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Link – Top 10 Most Common Student-Encountered GIS Problems I have been working with and teaching undergrad and grad students GIS for 4+ years now and have compiled a list of the 10 most frequen...

https://spatiallyadjusted.com/mapz-on-common-student-encountered-gis-problems/

Link – The GIS Longtail – Google, MSN, Yahoo and ESRI The idea that Google/MSN/Yahoo is bad news for ESRI is based solely on the whiz-bang-flash of the new mass awakening to the fact that thi...

https://spatiallyadjusted.com/dave-bouwman-on-the-gis-long-tail/

I’ve been getting emails from people asking about ESRI and many of them think of ESRI as the Microsoft of the GIS world. Since people like analogies, try this one on for size: ESRI is the Micro...

https://spatiallyadjusted.com/esri-is-not-the-microsoft-of-the-gis-world-it-is-much-more-complex/

Link – Directions in Spatial Information It is interesting to read and learn about all the things that Google is up to with respect to maps. Like I said a while ago, here; it has opened the doo...

https://spatiallyadjusted.com/jeff-thurston-thinks-we-are-all-too-focused-on-the-gis-viewer/