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Singapore Harbor and the Failure of Geospatial Marketing

If the global economy were collapsing, how would we know? In mid-February as parts of Asia wrestled with COVID-19, Twitter user @IAMIRONMAN7 had some data to share and he wasn’t shy about connecting the dots: As I doom-scrolled through the responses, folks who were familiar with Singapore chimed in that this looked like business-as-usual to […]

Geographically Balancing Supply and Demand: Car Sharing in Denver

How do you geographically match supply and demand in the new sharing economy? For lodging, the old way was to have a fixed number of hotel rooms whose prices rise as the beds fill up. The new way is having AirBnB email potential providers of rooms and informing them of demand spikes in their local area […]

5 Mapping Industry Trends I Saw At JS.Geo

Wait long enough to blog a conference, and you’ll find others have beat you to it.  Bill, Derek, and the folks at Cesium have done a great job with both talk-by-talk reviews as well as a few big picture reflections here, here, and here.  In addition, we posted most of the talk decks/links here.  As […]