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Columns

Looking for a Job in GIS? Maybe You Should Obtain a Security Clearance
Joe Francica 01-28-2005

MapInfo Hiring for Retail Services; Intergraph Lays off 50, mostly from Mapping Division
Joe Francica 01-21-2005

Directions Launches PROFILES IN GIS
Joe Francica 12-06-2004

Good News, Bad News for Salaries, Outsourcing, and Home Businesses
Directions Staff 10-18-2004

Should You Get 'GIS Certified'
Joe Francica 09-22-2004

Employment Picture Looks Promising
Richard Serby 09-09-2004

Jobs for Geographers Who Don't Know GIS
Joe Francica 09-03-2004

U.S. Department of Labor Issues Report on Geospatial Technologies
Directions Staff 07-30-2004

Jobs – It’s All Good News
Richard Serby 05-14-2004

Top 15 Interview Questions
Richard Serby 05-06-2004

Basic Resume Tips: Written vs. Web
Richard Serby 04-20-2004

Industry Professional Offers Career Advice
Richard Serby 04-01-2004

Careers Column - Most Would Recommend Their College
Richard Serby 03-27-2004

Has Your College Prepared You For the Real World?
Richard Serby 03-11-2004

GIS in Business - Searching for the Next Big Thing
Larry Daniel 01-20-2003

Claritas, MapInfo Make Push into Analytical Services -- The geodemographic data business will never be the same...
Joe Francica 01-14-2003

GIS Day 2003 - A National Day for
Joe Francica 11-19-2002

URISA at 40 - Quality, not Quantity
Joe Francica 10-29-2002

Update on the Microsoft MapPoint 2003 End User License Agreement (EULA)
Joe Francica 09-04-2002

What have you been doing since 9/11?
Joe Francica 09-04-2002

Data Quality, Data Hygiene and other Healthy Habits: The Business of Geocoding...and more
Joe Francica 08-06-2002

Beware the "total solution"
Joe Francica 06-18-2002

Enterprise data model represents the central nervous system for managing the operation of government: Comments on the Launch of the DC Atlas and an enterprise GIS for Washington
Chuck Hansen 06-09-2002

Intergraph Geospatial World - Conference Preview
Joe Francica 06-04-2002

The Wessex Effect – Part II
Joe Francica 05-29-2002

Map-ematical GIS Models: Doing the Math
Joe Berry 04-30-2002

Lack of Vision Thwarts GIS in Politics
Joe Francica 04-30-2002

Bentley Systems files for IPO
Joe Francica 04-29-2002

The Calm before the Storm
Joe Francica 04-19-2002

Additional Information on Steganography
Bill Thoen 04-16-2002

Intergraph stock moves on news of Intel litigation
Joe Francica 04-10-2002

Census 1930 – a demographic in time
Joe Francica 04-03-2002

Yahoo boots MapQuest.
Joe Francica 03-13-2002

What is it that Geographers do?
Reginald Golledge 07-02-2001

Geography and Everyday Life (again!)
Reginald Golledge 03-20-2001

Geography and Everyday Life
Reginald Golledge 12-20-2000

Decision Strategies in GIS
Dr. Ronald Eastman 12-13-2000

Research and GIScience 2000
Lynn Usery 11-29-2000

Who Are Today's Geographers?
Reginald Golledge 10-25-2000

Geography by any other name…
Reginald Golledge 09-19-2000

UCGIS: Research in Geographic Information Science
Lynn Usery 06-28-2000

AAG: Geography at the Turn of the Century
Reginald Golledge 06-28-2000

How to Negotiate with Maps
Anthony J. Quartararo III 05-11-2000

Census 2000 by the numbers
Steve Wallace 03-28-2000

Data Conversion Customers to Benefit … Maybe
Anthony J. Quartararo III 03-13-2000

Confessions of a GIS Hack
Steve Wallace 02-07-2000

Building Rating Territories with Today’s Technology
Charles Sharp 11-10-1999

Putting Geography Where It Belongs: On Top
Anthony J. Quartararo III 09-02-1999

The Internet has changed a lot … but not my healthcare!
William F. Davenhall 07-06-1999

More than just Wired
Hal Reid 06-28-1999

A Tale of Two "Cities''
Steve Wallace 06-09-1999

ZIP Code Tables and Buggy Whips: Relics of the Past
Charles Sharp 06-02-1999

GIS on a Saturday Night
Charles Sharp 04-07-1999

Market Demand for Spatial Software in Health Organizations
William F. Davenhall 03-15-1999

Is it a point or an edge?
Hal Reid 03-08-1999

Chicago’s Y2K Demographics
Thomas Exter 01-15-1999

Data and the Price of a Good Vintage
Joseph Schwartz 01-13-1999

The Elusive Compatibility of Data
R.H. Jannini IV 12-21-1998

We’re On The Move
Joseph Schwartz 12-16-1998

Hassled by Cross-Format Incompatibility? Try an OCX
Hal Reid 12-15-1998

Will the Water Rise?
Larry Daniel 12-09-1998

The Right "Stuff"
Hal Reid 11-19-1998

Editor's Note 11/2/98
Joseph Schwartz 11-02-1998

Hmmm…
Hal Reid 11-02-1998

Metro Futures
Thomas Exter 11-02-1998

Driving Forward with GIS
Larry Daniel 11-02-1998

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