The Geo Factor recently interviewed Matt Ball, founder of Vector1Media, a new media company with a mission to “promote spatial design for a sustainable tomorrow.” Matt answered questions about what drove him to start the company, why sustainable living is important, and how spatial analysis is important to its achievement. TGF: What is Vector1Media? Vector1 [...]
Last year The Geo Factor lamented about how analyst predictions are, mostly, self-serving shams. We shouldn’t take them too seriously. But this year I decided to join the fray. What the heck – it’s a new year. Count on these geo things happening in 2008. GPS Meets Reality TV. With the writers’ strike dragging on, [...]
I don’t eat them, but my kids do. Too sweet for my tastes, but their bright colors sure light up the breakfast table. The current box grabbed my geo-attention – on the back is a map. Again, quite colorful. And an activity to find the lost map. Cool. I sat down with my 7-year old [...]
Live Presentation Thursday, July 19, 2007 at 2PM – 3PM EDT/11AM – 12:00 PM PDT Seventh in RFG’s Teleconference Series: Emergency Planning and Disaster Preparedness: The Critical Role of Geospatial Information === Is your business planning for disasters, but doing so solely within the vacuum of its own domain? Do you or your colleagues interact [...]
Recently, an incredible story appeared in the Washington Post Magazine. “These Satellite Images Document an Atrocity” by Robin Mejia details how Amnesty International worked with a geographer and others at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to compare satellite images of areas in Zimbabwe and the Darfur region of Sudan. The result [...]
