One of the  dilemas of being a consulting firm is that consulting can mean anything. Saying you’re an IT consulting firm doesn’t improve things and these days even a GIS consulting firm may leave a lot of questions to be answered. We’ve never really limited ourselves to doing geospatial work just because we got our start in that sector and continue to do well in that niche.

Personally, I’ve always seen Traverse Technologies as a software firm that just happens to do a lot of geospatial work as opposed to the reverse. With that in mind, those of us in the … Continue Reading

Welcome to the Viewshed, the official blog of Traverse Technologies! We established this blog as a means to engage our community in a conversation about a range of topics, but primarily centering around the geographic web, GIS, user-centered design, information architecture, and locatation awareness. Embedded in this conversation is the implicit notion that Where things happen is important. Moreover, we believe that in a world of pervasive networked information technologies that it is becoming increasingly important to find things and keep them found, to paraphrase Peter Morville .

The term ‘viewshed’ refers to views … Continue Reading