With the arrival of autumn my Saturday afternoon meditative trinity of couch, college football, and napping is occasionally interrupted by one of those IBM Smarter Cities commercials. Though I’m generally irritated by anyone cheerfully telling me they’re building a “smarter planet”, I find the case studies interesting enough for 30 seconds of my attention. Their […]
In the final weeks of grad school, I asked a seemingly natural, innocent question of a classmate– “What kind of job are you looking for, something in GIS?” <with contemptuous snarl> “GIS? I’m a cartographer.“ And so it goes: cartographers are the artists and we GIS people are mere data drones. But there are a […]
The obituary appeared in the Wall Street Journal this week (ungated link). And the lead sentence is all you need to read: The use of open-source software is becoming more prevalent at big companies for reasons including ease of innovation and cutting the time to get products to market. Done. No mention of “free” […]