Last week I attended the Association of American Geographers Annual Conference and heard a talk by Robert Groves, Director of the US Census Bureau. Aside the impressiveness of the bureau’s work I was struck by how Groves conceived of visualisations as requiring either fast thinking or slow thinking. Fast thinking data visualisations offer a clear message without the need …
Daily Archives: Thursday 1 March 2012
Geospatial Science Seminar 21.02.2012
by Chris Gale • • Comments Off
Geomedia Professional Suite of GIS Software. Richard Goodman, Intergraph. To download a PDF of the seminar please click here. Abstract. This presentation talks about the Geomedia Professional Suite of GIS Software, highlighting its features and giving examples and case studies…
ESRC Benchmarking For Quant. Geography and Cartography
by James Cheshire • • Comments Off
Profs Mike Batty and Paul Longley have been asked to write a short report on Quantitative Geography, GIS and Cartography for the ESRC’s current ‘benchmarking review’ of UK human geography, undertaken in partnership with the RGS-IBG. They would very much welcome views and contributions from QMRG and GISRG members in seeking to answer the following [...]