Do I really need GISP Certification?
There are two trains of though on how a person who practices GIS as their career should validate their credentials.
Software
Cutting through the sheets of data in GIS
There is a new sheriff in town when it comes to alignment sheet generation, and it is called SheetCutter. This is an alignment sheet generator…
XToolsPro vs ET GeoWizards
When it comes to general-purpose third party ArcGIS Desktop Extensions, two popular products stand out: ET GeoWizards and XTools Pro. ET GeoWizards is an ArcGIS…
Choosing An Online Mapping Service
The availability of online mapping services has exploded over the past few years, and today there is a wide range of products and capabilities available…
Third Party ArcGIS Desktop Extensions
When needing to expand your ArcGIS Desktop capabilities, there are several third party extensions that can perform a wide-variety of tasks and make routine workflows…
Old Science Meets New Technology, A History of Data Analysis
Since the beginning of the human race evolving from hunter-gathers to civilized societies, a very important part of maintaining balance and peace is to make…
The Swiss Army Knife for GIS
A while back I was introduced to a program called Global Mapper. We were promised it would do everything the major commercial programs could not. We had…