Oracle's New Motto

My Suggestion for Oracle's Motto: "We're Not Happy Till You're Not Happy"

Speak Up For Geography

Support Geography!  Go to here: http://speakupforgeography.rallycongress.com/

Write your congressional leadership and let them know you want them to support the "Geography is Fundamental (TGIF) Act". Please do it by November 18, 2011.

Join the cause and help students improve their geography knowledge.

Thanks everyone!

Vote November 8th - General Elections (USA)

Please remember to vote this year (and every year).  Elections have consequences, especially if you do not make your voice heard. If you don't vote you might get something you really don't want.

Map Scale and Resolution

When I first started using GIS, I did not program and I did not write any custom code.  I was a cartographer many years ago.  As I move on in my career I have slowly moved away from cartography, but the principles I learned in my cartography classes have been critical to my success as a developer.  When I saw this blog post it brought back a time when I use to just be a map maker (cartographer).  If you program in the GIS world, no matter if it's web, desktop, or services, you should always have a good understanding of how to present data.  Developing tools to show and analyze data is just one part of GIS, but in reality it's how you interpret/display the results that really matter.

So read up on this article because understanding Map Scale and Resolution is important to being a good GIS programmer.

I shall step off the soapbox now.