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Economic Ignorance: the Case Against Atanas Entchev", "url": "https://mapbrief.com/2011/10/19/political-hypocrisy-economic-ignorance-the-case-against-atanas-entchev/", "published_at": "2011-10-19T21:59:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb70-1d7c-70a2-8223-83ead1b069ca", "title": "Web Mapping Continues to Pay for the Sins of Internet Explorer", "url": "https://mapbrief.com/2011/10/13/web-mapping-continues-to-pay-for-the-sins-of-internet-explorer/", "published_at": "2011-10-13T15:35:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb70-1d7c-70a2-8223-83ead2682118", "title": "Among America’s Best & Brightest, Geography Casts But a Faint Glow", "url": "https://mapbrief.com/2011/09/28/among-americas-best-brightest-geography-casts-but-a-faint-glow/", "published_at": "2011-09-28T15:25:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb70-1d7c-70a2-8223-83ead346be7c", "title": "GIS, IT, and the Interests Served by a Dysfunctional Status Quo", "url": "https://mapbrief.com/2011/09/20/gis-it-and-the-interests-served-by-a-dysfunctional-status-quo/", 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"https://mapbrief.com/2011/08/22/mapping-the-census-and-the-sincerest-form-of-flattery/", "published_at": "2011-08-22T17:08:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb70-1d7c-70a2-8223-83ead61101f0", "title": "Big Data is More Than More Data", "url": "https://mapbrief.com/2011/08/18/big-data-is-more-than-more-data/", "published_at": "2011-08-18T18:19:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb73-a580-7379-8dc1-cbb620909d7a", "title": "Geospatial Open Source Has Gone Mainstream", "url": "https://mapbrief.com/2011/08/09/geospatial-open-source-has-gone-mainstream/", "published_at": "2011-08-09T18:56:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb73-a580-7379-8dc1-cbb6213cc98d", "title": "Cooking Up a Geospatial Business Model In A Web World", "url": "https://mapbrief.com/2011/08/03/cooking-up-a-geospatial-business-model-in-a-web-world/", "published_at": "2011-08-03T16:43:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb73-a580-7379-8dc1-cbb621e566b2", "title": "Dear ESRI Business Partner: Your Revenue Model Died Last Week", "url": "https://mapbrief.com/2011/07/27/dear-esri-business-partner-your-revenue-model-died-last-week/", "published_at": "2011-07-27T14:53:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb73-a580-7379-8dc1-cbb6226dfb1d", "title": "Realtor Data Is More Authoritative Than Surveyor Data", "url": "https://mapbrief.com/2011/07/20/realtor-data-is-more-authoritative-than-surveyor-data/", "published_at": "2011-07-20T16:02:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb73-a580-7379-8dc1-cbb622cdff43", "title": "When A Map Goes Viral", "url": "https://mapbrief.com/2011/07/13/when-a-map-goes-viral/", "published_at": "2011-07-13T16:18:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb73-a580-7379-8dc1-cbb622d539ca", "title": "Open Source on the 21st Century Battlefield", "url": "https://mapbrief.com/2011/07/06/open-source-on-the-21st-century-battlefield/", "published_at": "2011-07-06T20:43:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb73-a580-7379-8dc1-cbb623a2c8b6", "title": "Open Government is a Slammed Door at the BLM", "url": "https://mapbrief.com/2011/06/29/open-government-is-a-slammed-door-at-the-blm/", "published_at": "2011-06-29T13:51:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb73-a580-7379-8dc1-cbb623be3c75", "title": "Google Earth and the Quagmire of Enterprise IT", "url": "https://mapbrief.com/2011/06/23/google-earth-and-enterprise-it/", "published_at": "2011-06-23T12:54:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb73-a580-7379-8dc1-cbb6242167f4", "title": "Halford Mackinder and the Urgency of Geography", "url": "https://mapbrief.com/2011/06/13/halford-mackinder-urgency-geography/", "published_at": "2011-06-13T22:55:06+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

Jogging a Mile in Each of Denver’s 78 Neighborhoods to Break 26 Years of Spatial Habitsoriginal ↗
16 Jul 2026
A Crisis In Measurement Is A Crisis In Managementoriginal ↗
18 Jun 2026

2024

When We Sell ‘Mapping’, What Precisely Is The Product?original ↗
2 Oct 2024

2023

What If The Fix For the Geospatial Workforce “Crisis” Is…Better Pay?original ↗
6 Dec 2023

2022

Bracing For The Satellite Pixel Glut of 2023original ↗
27 Jan 2022

2020

The Travelling Salesman Problem Is Not a Routing Problem, It’s A Monetization Problemoriginal ↗
13 Jul 2020
Google Knew We Didn’t Want to Kill Spreadsheets. We Wanted A Billion Rows.original ↗
1 Jul 2020
15 Years of Google Earth and the Lessons That Went Unlearnedoriginal ↗
26 Jun 2020
Singapore Harbor and the Failure of Geospatial Marketingoriginal ↗
24 Jun 2020
Mapping’s Gaming Future Can’t Come Quick Enoughoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2020

2017

Few Interact With Our Interactive Maps–What Can We Do About It?original ↗
6 Apr 2017
Geographically Balancing Supply and Demand: Car Sharing in Denveroriginal ↗
11 Jan 2017

2016

Timoney Group’s “Hot” List for 2016original ↗
5 Jan 2016

2015

5 Mapping Industry Trends I Saw At JS.Geooriginal ↗
29 Oct 2015
PostGIS Is So Successful That It Needs To Change Its Nameoriginal ↗
22 Oct 2015
JS.Geo: Web Mapping at a Crossroads, and the Crossroads is in Philadelphia on October 8thoriginal ↗
12 Aug 2015
Mapquest + Mapbox: A Win-Win With A Huge Unanswered Questionoriginal ↗
5 Jun 2015
The Massive Potential of Verizon Mapquestoriginal ↗
19 May 2015
Hopeful Developments In Government Data Publishing. Yes, I Said “Hopeful”original ↗
28 Apr 2015
The Road to Bad Policy Is Paved By Good Intentions and Misconceived Mapsoriginal ↗
19 Mar 2015
Daring To Build a Citizen-Centric Homepage: The Philadelphia Storyoriginal ↗
9 Jan 2015

2014

Geo In The Browser: Less IT Means This Time It’s Differentoriginal ↗
29 Dec 2014
The Elegant, Effective Election Data Visualization That Is Thankfully Not A Maporiginal ↗
13 Nov 2014
Open—Wide Open—in Portland: A FOSS4G Revieworiginal ↗
16 Sept 2014
Data Insight, Reputational Risk, and Bill Belichick: Sports Analytics & Business Analytics, Part IIoriginal ↗
23 May 2014
Why We’re Smarter on Sunday: Sports Analytics & Business Analytics, Part Ioriginal ↗
5 Mar 2014
In Praise of the Static Maporiginal ↗
17 Jan 2014
MapBrief Geo Predictions for 2014original ↗
3 Jan 2014

2013

One Man’s Public Comment: “More Data, Less Infrastructure”original ↗
15 Aug 2013
There Are Few 2nd Impressions Onlineoriginal ↗
18 Jul 2013
PDF Sharing is Not Data Sharing–A Public Service Announcementoriginal ↗
14 May 2013
Geospatial Contractors Cynically Attempt to Take Over US Federal Mappingoriginal ↗
8 May 2013
The Flawed Economics of Closed Government Dataoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2013
Your Online Map Is Missing Half Its Audience: More Revealing Web Analytics From the Fieldoriginal ↗
15 Mar 2013
A Minimally Viable Property Lookup Serviceoriginal ↗
12 Mar 2013
D3 and the Power of Projectionsoriginal ↗
1 Mar 2013
BLM Celebrates 2nd Anniversary of Closed Dataoriginal ↗
23 Feb 2013
The Waiting is the Hardest Part: Why Map Portals Don’t Work, Part Voriginal ↗
21 Feb 2013
An Iconography of Confusion: Why Map Portals Don’t Work, Part IVoriginal ↗
19 Feb 2013
The Tyranny of “Requirements”: Why Map Portals Don’t Work, Part IIIoriginal ↗
11 Feb 2013
Paralysis of Choice: Why Map Portals Don’t Work, Part IIoriginal ↗
7 Feb 2013
Why Map Portals Don’t Work – Part Ioriginal ↗
5 Feb 2013

2012

Nate Silver Does Spatial Analysis and So Should Youoriginal ↗
27 Dec 2012
JS.geo 2013: A Meeting of Javascript Mappers in Denveroriginal ↗
21 Nov 2012
“Finally: the election map that isn’t a lie.”original ↗
13 Nov 2012
If “Spreadsheeting” Isn’t a University Major, Then Why Is GIS a Major?original ↗
9 Nov 2012
If Mapping is So Big, Why Does GIS Feel So Small?original ↗
25 Oct 2012
GIS & Cartography: the Latest Best Opportunity to Bridge the Chasmoriginal ↗
27 Sept 2012
Springsteen in the USA: 40 Years of Touring as a Study in Spatial Diffusionoriginal ↗
13 Sept 2012
The Tired Debate About Open-Source-in-the-Enterprise Dies an Overdue Deathoriginal ↗
7 Sept 2012
The Delusional Job Ad That Reveals What’s Wrong With GISoriginal ↗
29 Aug 2012
How the Public Actually Uses Local Government Web Maps: Metrics from Denveroriginal ↗
1 Aug 2012
Software Can’t Transform Organizations That See Data Merely as a Thing to Be “Managed”original ↗
22 Jul 2012
It’s Never Been Harder to Make Money in GIS: The Sobering Economic Backdrop to the ESRI/GeoIQ Dealoriginal ↗
11 Jul 2012
Redistricting Denver: Where “Communities of Interest” Allow Polite Folk to Sidestep Race, Classoriginal ↗
23 Apr 2012
The Profit Motive: Why Geospatial Open Source Needs More Naked Commercial Interestoriginal ↗
5 Apr 2012
Beware of Enterprise Projects That Require New Codeoriginal ↗
22 Mar 2012
World Bank Empowers Citizen Cartographers to Enrich Google in Developing Worldoriginal ↗
23 Jan 2012
Why We Haven’t Found the 21st Century Business Modeloriginal ↗
10 Jan 2012

2011

Timoney’s Geo “Hot” List for 2012original ↗
27 Dec 2011
The View From Your Window: the Best Geographic Reasoning on the Weboriginal ↗
3 Nov 2011
Political Hypocrisy & Economic Ignorance: the Case Against Atanas Entchevoriginal ↗
19 Oct 2011
Web Mapping Continues to Pay for the Sins of Internet Exploreroriginal ↗
13 Oct 2011
Among America’s Best & Brightest, Geography Casts But a Faint Gloworiginal ↗
28 Sept 2011
GIS, IT, and the Interests Served by a Dysfunctional Status Quooriginal ↗
20 Sept 2011
Letter to a College Seniororiginal ↗
9 Sept 2011
The New Golden Age of Cartography Has Arrived…and It’s Co-Edoriginal ↗
1 Sept 2011
FOSS4G: Not the Company Line, But a Whole Climate of Opinionoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2011
Mapping the Census and the Sincerest Form of Flatteryoriginal ↗
22 Aug 2011
Big Data is More Than More Dataoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2011
Geospatial Open Source Has Gone Mainstreamoriginal ↗
9 Aug 2011
Cooking Up a Geospatial Business Model In A Web Worldoriginal ↗
3 Aug 2011
Dear ESRI Business Partner: Your Revenue Model Died Last Weekoriginal ↗
27 Jul 2011
Realtor Data Is More Authoritative Than Surveyor Dataoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2011
When A Map Goes Viraloriginal ↗
13 Jul 2011
Open Source on the 21st Century Battlefieldoriginal ↗
6 Jul 2011
Open Government is a Slammed Door at the BLMoriginal ↗
29 Jun 2011
Google Earth and the Quagmire of Enterprise IToriginal ↗
23 Jun 2011
Halford Mackinder and the Urgency of Geographyoriginal ↗
13 Jun 2011