Spatial Dynamics

With the American elections occurring this year, many people have probably witnessed CNN reporter John King at his “magic” wall: an enormous multi-touch map.

Using “on-the-fly” GIS technology, he analyzes voting patterns by turnout, ethnicity, age, religion, education, and even by television markets. It even seems to work well; unlike ArcGIS, I have yet to [...]

As a daily user of a Garmin eTrex Vista HCx , I’m convinced it’s only a matter of time before Garmin handhelds become absorbed within cell phones. While there will always be a market for handhelds, it will likely dwindle as cell phones evolve and incorporate navigation technology.

Garmin has already foreshadowed the demise of handhelds [...]

The Washington Post recently had an article regarding a consortium of companies who plan on spending $14.5 billion (more than Bolivia’s GDP) in the creation of the WiMax network. According to the article, delivering maps is one of Google’s main considerations for joining the project.
WiMax is like WiFi, but with a much longer range; it [...]

I’ve recently had a chance to check out the newly-released EarthBrowser 3.0 created by Matt Giger , a programmer from Oregon. At first glance, it appears similar to Google Earth; except that it runs on AdobeAir . Instead of observing the countless imagery edges in Google Earth, EarthBrowser reminds me of the “Earth from Space” [...]