And we have the giant banner to prove it. And the giant coffee pots. Tomorrow we introduce Florida Home to the local real estate community, with a public launch coming soon. Powered by the platform built for our old Backyard Post concept, built on a foundation of RealNeighborhoods™, and fueled by salsa and awesome, Florida Home will be the first official digital product to emerge from my insane four-year personal obsession with breaking down our vast, horizontal, suburban area into its elemental geographic communities.
I can’t tell you what an amazing relief it is to finally see my big, beautiful Real Neighborhoods™ database at last emerge from its chrysalis. We still have at least two years worth of existing ideas and plans to implement, but I’m proud of this important step away from the short term-obsessed, fear-driven outsourcing of our future.
"Cartographica is a Geographic Information System (GIS) package for the Macintosh. It is used to create, analyze, explore, manipulate and present geospatial data." Could be interesting. Via Steve Doig on NICAR-L.
Now here’s an indisputable bonus fact about Paper View Monday: It is, without a doubt, the nation’s favorite newspaper building-themed Monday aerial photo feature. Unless someone has a more popular newspaper building-themed Monday aerial photo feature I don’t know about, in which case I’d be really quite curious about just when exactly they started their newspaper building-themed Monday aerial photo featured, because if it started after mine I will go absolutely mental.