I attended the NC GIS Conference last week. For those of you who are not familiar with this event, this is consistently one of the best regional conferences in North America. There are good reasons why I’ve only missed one conference in the 22-years it’s been in existence. First, it’s always smoothly run and well organized. Secondly, the range of content is drawn from a broad range of geospatial topics, including municipal parcel/cadastral mapping, data standards and interoperability, intergovernmental data sharing, governance, and open source software. I was astonished that … 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