Category: Geography
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The 2014 GOOD City Index
Very interesting perspective from the good folks at GOOD. I very much appreciate the perspective of cities from the stand point of potential. It does focus on the momentum of the cities towards improvement, not resting on laurels of past achievements. It also addresses a (for me) nagging issue with city benchmarking with respect to…
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Connected: Jack Dangermond, president, Esri
I feel very conflicted about this article. On the one hand it’s great to see a mass business media publication like Forbes writing about the importance of GIS to business, on the other hand, I am saddened to see that Jack, and the article refer to the business applications as “emerging”. I’d argue they are…
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Cartograms are evil!
Cartograms are evil… I recently engaged in a pretty heated debate with a senior researcher at my company about the merits and drawbacks of various data visualization techniques. This particular person used mapping as a great example of visualization techniques, unfortunately started to focus his attention on cartograms (insert image here) as the best example…
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The efficiency of trains
Hello again friends! I’m back stateside, and wanted to follow up on this note from a couple of months ago. At the time I talked about how I took the train from Boston, Massachusetts to Syracuse, New York. The train ride was about 10 hours, about 5.5 hours longer than the equivalent car ride. As I…
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Western Massachusetts – Birthplace of Horror Movies?
Hello again friends! A very quick update as I am traveling for work. I recently (Thanksgiving 2011) had the opportunity to take the Amtrak Lakeshore Limited from Boston to up-state New York. As we left Boston, we went through the suburban landscape of Eastern Massachusetts. This landscape is quite nondescript and similar to what you would…