Homage to the people behind OASISnyc

Last week’s UrbanOmnibus features an article I wrote about a new and completely revamped version of the OASIS mapping website in New York City — see “A new OASIS for New York“.  (Also see an earlier blog post about how we designed the cartography in the new OASIS maps.)
OASIS is the Open Accessible Space Information [...]

Twittering observations

I attended the GeoWeb 2009 conference and one of my “takeaways” didn’t have anything to do with geography or the geoweb at all (directly, anyway).
I noticed that at each session, some dozen or so attendees were typing away at their laptops or iPhones.  I assumed they were just taking notes, but when I peered closer [...]