Visual Thinking: The Importance of a Geospatial Architecture

by Ken Orr

I really love maps. I'm something of a map freak. When I was a kid, my folks got me an encyclopedia that had a volume called "Places and People," and I spent whole summers browsing the maps and pictures, trying to get the relationships of those maps and the rest of the globe clear in my mind. As an adult, I've had the luxury of traveling all over the world on business and pleasure, and everywhere I've gone, I have bought maps and saved them for future reference. And as my kids grew up, they too sought out exotic (and usually dangerous) places. One daughter, who is a missionary, has spent most of her adult life in places like Bangladesh and Malaysia. Another, who used to be in the military, was in the Far East and then the Mideast, and a third had the habit of going to dangerous places like Belgrade during and just before the crisis de jour.

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Visual Thinking: The Importance of a Geospatial Architecture4 June 2008