Welcome to Down to Earth

Aloha, ni hao, namaste, shalom and ¡hola! – or simply said, hello and a warm and respectful welcome to GISi’s new weblog.

I know what you’re thinking…” just what the world needs, another blog!”.   And you’re right, it seems like everyone has a blog or some type of social media channel they’re using to stand on a digital soapbox and share their thoughts with the world.   But the amazing thing about blogs (along with Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and other similar tools), is that it’s a big, big world out there.  And more noteworthy is that just like my welcome to you using different languages or cultural notions, the GIS world is very diverse.  Our industry includes analysts and programmers, project managers and administrators, executives and visionaries (which are not always synonymous!); there are people who use GIS in as many different workflows and markets as you or I could list.   The point?  At GISi we believe our talented employees likely have a point-of-view to share that will be of interest to someone, somewhere. Read more of this post