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Jogging a Mile in Each of Denver’s 78 Neighborhoods to Break 26 Years of Spatial Habits

How well do you know the town you call home? After twenty-six years in Denver, most of it tucked up in its northwest corner, I suspected my own honest answer would be “not very”. So when I decided to take a personal sabbatical of sorts this Spring to ponder a mid-career refactoring in the brave […]

When We Sell ‘Mapping’, What Precisely Is The Product?

Last year I ran into the always-incisive Will Cadell and we immediately started discussing a favorite hallway-track topic:  how to effectively sell Geo. ME:  “If I had to do it all over again, I wouldn’t even bother with the web but just sell PDF maps to the Oil & Gas industry with big red arrows that […]

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 […]