Usually, no one wants to be an outsider. Especially in my area of the world, Washington, DC. However, with the presidential election, it is suddenly in vogue to be considered an outsider. With all of the swirl around McCain/Palin being reformers and outsiders from the “Washington establishment” and Obama being the candidate of “change”, I started to wonder – what about GIS and LBS? Who are the outsiders? The anti-establishment? Is there an establishment to be outside of? Is GIS or LBS a big club, like Washington politics? Is there something needing new ideas? Reforms?


Let me know what you think, via comment on the blog or privately (ron at thegeofactor dot com). I’ll share the essence of what you say here, without attribution if desired.

And for those in the path of hurricane Gustav, let us hope things return to normal as soon as possible and that people using geospatial expertise and technologies can accelerate the recovery efforts.