Concerning censuses it is quite impressive how much mapping census data has become popular. Ten years ago census cartography existed, but now its is exploding. This is great.

But now you have to teach your citizen, client, student, how to see a structure in a map. And that remains the job of the future.

frank, while i do try to post things that are relevant to to all FD readers, it’s simply grown to a size where that’s a pretty hard thing to do. if it’s any consolation, census here in the US is only every 10 years, so you won’t hear much about it later. although it’s not just US thing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Census

or if you can’t see mr. walken on hulu, here’s a link to it on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XtuPvwBa2U

are we all good now?

Personally I would have thought “Why is it so complicated to imagine that blog writers publish to a global audience, a decade after the start of the Internet?” was a rather insulting thing to say….

Nathan created an interesting site which I regularly consult and where I comment sometimes, and it would be better to maintain this professional level of exchange and not start flaming.