Spatial Dynamics

The Economist recently had an article on the evolving locations of server farms throughout the world. Since data processing and warehousing are becoming funtamental to virtually every industry , it’s becoming an essential “utility”.
While it will always be requisite for many servers to be located near population centers for speed requirements (search engine results, real-time [...]

Here’s an image of Russian satellite dishes that an Economist

article claims are likely used for eavesdropping purposes (coordinates: 57.8026N 28.2146E or download kmz here).

Since the construction of these dishes was recent and it’s located in one of the few places in Russian territory that falls within the footprint of the Inmarset 4-F2 [...]

This week’s Economist featured a 14-page special report of mobile telecoms. While almost all the articles related to GIS and spatial thinking, this article relates to me because for the past four months, I’ve been carrying around a Garmin Vista HCx wherever I go. I download the points every two weeks or so and import [...]