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 […]
“Why Map Portals Don’t Work” is a five-part exploration of why the dominant visual grammar of GIS interfaces serves its public audience so poorly and continues to diverge from the best practices found most everywhere else on the web. Read Part I, Part II, Part III, Part V. On February 27th, I will be joining […]
The Excel spreadsheet is the world’s most popular way to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and visualize data. Yet I’m unaware of an accredited institution offering a four-year Bachelor’s degree in Spreadsheeting. Yet replace “data” with “geographic data” in the previous sentence, and suddenly everything is different? Why is that? Variation on a Theme In […]