Every geographer knows Tobler’s Law.  Near things are more similar to things that are far away.  From this, we often begin our...

I wrote a paper in 2006 about using SQL for the Modifiable Area Unit Problem (MAUP).  The example was an agricultural experiment field,...

OK, I admit it, this post really isn’t about “spatial”.  It’s more about descriptive statistics, but I wanted to introduce the ability to...

In our last post, we looked at a simple random point distribution.As you recall from my book, a single random sample may in fact not be...

This post is part of a series entitled Spatial is not Special, where I will illustrate how spatial constructs in SQL provide us with a...

I love the Tabulate Area command in ArcGIS.  The ability to create a cross tabulation of two feature datasets is very cool.  SQL has...

I can’t help myself, once I get started writing SQL, I always go on tangents, because its so cool to try out new things.  In our last...

Lets take another break from my textbook, and focus on a classic GIS operation.  If you are like me, you learned GIS with ARC/INFO.  I...

In case you are getting tired of reading examples from my book (did I mention that I have a textbook you can buy from Amazon?), I thought...

This post is part of a series entitled Spatial is not Special, where I will illustrate how spatial constructs in SQL provide us with a...

Statistical Problem Solving in Geography Front Matter In addition to the Table of Contents, I’ve included the Preface in order to give...

This post is part of a series entitled Spatial is not Special, where I will illustrate how spatial constructs in SQL provide us with a...

Rob and Hillary wowing the crowd I am happy to announce that five of our students just took first place in an app development competition...

This post is part of a series entitled Spatial is not Special, where I will illustrate how spatial constructs in SQL provide us with a...

This post is part of a series entitled Spatial is not Special, where I will illustrate how spatial constructs in SQL provide us with a...

This post is part of a series entitled Spatial is not Special, where I will illustrate how spatial constructs in SQL provide us with a...

I have spent the last few years advocating the benefits of SQL, and in particular spatial constructs in SQL for solving geographic...

This book was three years in the making.  When Chapman McGrew and Chuck Monroe, the authors of the first and second editions, approached...