Earlier this year I wrote a post which addressed the ubiquitous phrase in the geospatial industry that 80% of data contains a spatial component. The problem with this statement is that there is no single source where this stat line came from, even though it has been used widely for years. Some have tried to track this down, but I […]

Look I have been talking about modern GIS for about three years now (a full three if you count this post). And the adoption of the term has grown significantly since my first full article on the topic in January 2022: But in the past year or so something caught my eye from a specific company that says […]

In the last few weeks I have been reading (or rather listening) to Atomic Habits by James Clear. While I am certainly not productivity obsessed or focused on rigid habits, I do always look to optimize the way I work. For me there are a lot of things I want to do, and I want […]

It’s more than likely that Python is going to become a fundamental skill in all areas in the coming years, just as Excel did in previous decades. Its applications across many domains and ability to automate processes make it one of the most popular languages today. But in GIS, we already know that. For years, […]

This past week, I started a new path in my career for the first time in 9 years over with the amazing team at Wherobots. There are a number of reasons why I am excited to join (the technology reasons will be explained below) but the first is the amazing team members I met this […]