I was excited to see that, in recent days, the first annual Cartography Design Annual publication was released by Nick Springer at Springer Cartographics. Map designers around CartoTalk had been discussing the production of something like that for quite a while, and it is exciting to see the concept actually take form and become available [...]
If you’re an image optimization “geek” like me, you’ll occasionally like to see what other people are doing (and writing) on the topic. Tonight, I decided to google “graphics optimization,” as I do probably 1-2 times per month. Good news for us! I see that our blog and main web site still rank [...]
One of the last things I do before I call it a night most evenings is check to see how our mapformation and GraphicsOptimization web sites are being utilized. I find it very helpful to see how our site has been used during the day, as it helps to give me a bit of [...]
I woke up this morning to the awful news that one never really wants to receive. One of my youngest cousins, Paul Tonn, was killed in a one-car accident out in Virginia early this morning. It still really hasn’t sunk in…since I usually only have the chance to see him a couple times per year [...]
One thing I have never fully understood is how various software programs generate their “print” and “export” output…and why different methods of arriving at the same output will create such dramatically different file sizes.
To illustrate what I am talking about, I thought I would create .pdf output for a campus map design that our firm [...]
A nine-year marriage has officially come to an end as of this evening. No, Becky hasn’t FINALLY come to her senses and unceremoniously kicked me to the curb for a better model! Rather, my run with working on Dell computers has officially come to an end. Ever since I launched mapformation in [...]
Becky, the girls and I had the privilege tonight of visiting with a woman representing a publication called Womeninc. She wanted to interview us about our experiences of working with HGTV while they came to our home last September to film footage for their show “If Walls Could Talk.” The plan is apparently to include [...]
One of the tools that I know a LOT of people out there use to prepare and process imagery for the Internet is ImageMagick. It’s a solid tool, and when used in conjunction with other tools, can be very powerful! However, I recently came across information about a tool called GraphicsMagick which seems as though [...]
I had an interesting meeting today here in Springfield with three other individuals, talking about economic development opportunities that might be out there to help our small town. One metro area “transplant” and tree-hugger like myself (though she is probably a registered Democrat, whereas I am but a simple Independent when it comes to politics)! [...]
If you’ve been around groups of higher education webmasters for more than 5-10 seconds, you’ve heard the term “CMS” bandied-about. CMS, or “content management systems,” makes life a LOT easier on webmasters who are responsible to govern the look, feel and performance of a web site as a whole, but who will rely upon people [...]
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