Eric Gakstatter

I’m happy that last week’s article titled “Are You a Professional?” evoked responses from readers. I thought I’d share a couple of the responses I received. Also, I've included a good piece on using GIS for commercial real estate market research.

Earlier today (August 31st), I conducted a webinar entitled “Solar Activity, SBAS and 24+3 GPS Constellation Updates”. Considering we only announced the webinar three weeks ago, we had a fantastic registration numbers, with over 570 registered. I also had a lot of questions before and during...more >>

I’m happy that last week’s article entitled “Are You a Professional?” evoked responses from readers. I thought I’d share a couple of the responses I received. Also, I've included a good piece on using GIS for commercial real estate market research.

This is a question that has been tossed around a lot in the past few years. I hear it both from GIS folks and from land surveyors. Are you a professional? What constitutes a professional? Do you refer to yourself as a professional? If so, why?

I received some engaging emails about the Solar Activity discussion in my last newsletter. Since that newsletter, I’ve announced a webinar I’ll be conducting next Tuesday, August 31st. The primary subject I will discuss during the webinar will be the effect of solar activity on GPS users.

It’s been eight months since the iPad was introduced. Last Spring, I wrote that it was imperative that the consumer market accept the iPad for it to have a chance to have an impact in the geospatial industry. Eight months later, do you think it’s been considered a success in the consumer market?

Journalist LaToya Egwuekwe used GIS to create a multimedia graphic that illustrates U.S. unemployment by county on a monthly basis since January 2007. The graphic was distributed through many media outlets as well as Youtube where it's generated nearly 150,000 views.

Recording the location, dimensions and physical attributes of every piece of equipment constituting rural utilities throughout the United States might seem like a tall order. But information tools used to build geographic information systems (GIS) have advanced so much in recent years that the...more >>

You might have heard reports this week about a solar storm this week. This is part of the new solar cycle (Solar Cycle 24) that I’ve written about several times. I want to periodically touch on this subject as the solar activity is going to increase over the next few years and if the solar...more >>

Between webinars and conferences, I've put together a fair number of Powerpoint presentations in the past few months. I'm in the process of uploading many of them, some dating back years, to our website. I hope you enjoy them.