Google Earth turns 15 this Sunday. Are you celebrating? If you’re a mapping professional, your reaction might be a mix of wistfulness and condescension as you haven’t popped open Google Earth in years let alone dealt with a KML file. The urge of the carto-cognoscenti to dismiss Google Earth has been strong from the […]
Confession: my gaming career ended in 1979 when Asteroids was released. Overwhelmed by multi-axis movement and the hyperspace button, I allocated my arcade quarters to analog pinball and turned my back on console gaming. As my mapping career marches into its third decade, I impatiently await the re-energizing of online mapping that can transform the […]
We are a species of gazers, not clickers: If you make a tooltip or rollover, assume no one will ever see it. — Archie Tse, NY Times Graphics Dept When one of the top creators of general audience data visualizations can only lure 10-15% of their audience into clicking on anything, let alone “diving” into […]