How much should citizens pay a county for a digital copy of property records and aerial photos? Sciotto County, Ohio says $2000. Actually it hired Woolpert to figure it out for them, and they said $2000. Which sounds a bit spendy, especially given that cities like Philadelphia and Denver give away the same type […]
When recently writing about the shortcomings of map portals, many of my opinions were shaped by the map usage analytics I collected from the City of Denver that formed my most popular post of 2012. Given the popularity of the topic and the large volume of feedback, I circled back to gather more statistics not only […]
The launch of Google Maps in 2005 brought with it a new way to think about web maps: “tiles”. Lots of tiles. Actually, millions of tiles. The smooth panning and zooming were awesome, but keeping track of all of those 256 x 256px PNG images was, frankly, a chore. Even with a computer. And the […]