In an article in yesterday’s Washington Post about Kate Middleton, the purported girlfriend of Prince William, the authors report her efforts to keep the prince in school - 
When William was considering dropping out, Kate influenced him to switch to a less demanding course of study — geography — and remain in school, according to Robert Jobson, author […]

Happy Holidays to The Geo Factor readers!
This time of year analysts decide they have to jump on the bandwagon, get out their crystal balls, and predict what is likely to occur in the upcoming year. My 2007 predictions for the geospatial market? I don’t have any. Not because I am without brains or even the […]

More than 100 years after its finding, scientists identified some metal fragments from a ship wreck off the coast of Greece as the earliest known mechanical computing device; it is 2,100 years old. Called the Antikythera Mechanism, the device looks like a clock mechanism. However, it wasn’t until 1,000 years later that such technology was […]

So Google buys YouTube for $1.65B. YouTube is the popular video site where one can post and view videos of pretty much anything. The site began way back in February 2005 and exploded to become one of the most popular destinations on the Internet. Most of the videos on the site are five minutes or […]

Whether you are a consumer or a business, geography is a factor you can no longer afford to ignore.
The focus of The Geo Factor is the business of geography and the geography of business. The Geo Factor thinks there is tremendous potential for increased usage of location-based information (also called geographic, geospatial, spatial, map-based) […]