Words matter. These are the best Jack Dangermond Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Planning a garden, park, building, or city shouldn’t be done in an office.
GIS is waking up the world to the power of geography, this science of integration, and has the framework for creating a better future.
Mapping and visualization is a huge area of work and is of interest to many people. We’re working on reinventing a new kind of 3D cartography to make it easier to tell stories with 3D maps.
I prefer to find craftspeople I can be colleagues with and who take an area of responsibility and run with it.
We aren’t into the consumer space because that space is largely dominated by search and advertising, and it has a consumer face to it.
Once you digitize data, you can actually analyze patterns and relationships in geographic space – relationships between certain health patterns and air or water pollution, between plants and climate, soils, landscape.
GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early ’90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.
We support about 5,000 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with software, training, and technical support. We provide our software at virtually no cost to them, and they’re lighting up the world with what they do.
We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.
I am hunting for people who would be a good colleague or a teammate, not someone who works for me.
You have to be very fast-thinking, creative, and mobile. It is key to making a business move.
We tell stories with maps about global warming, biodiversity; we can design more livable cities, track the spread of epidemics. That makes a difference.
As we continue advancing and leveraging GIS and as we keep bringing in new generations of technology as well as new generations of people, my sense is we’re going to achieve extraordinary things.
My parents owned a plants nursery. We all grew up growing things and planting things and selling things, and I also managed landscape crews.
I think it is widely agreed that Carl Steinitz, over the 50 years he taught at Harvard, has been one of the most important figures in influencing the theory and practice of landscape architecture and the application of computer technology to planning.
Bringing GIS into schools gets the kids very excited and indirectly teaches them different components of STEM education. That’s been illustrated at school after school.
At Harvard, I worked for some time as a researcher in a lab for computer graphics and spatial analysis, which is one of the birthplaces for what we do.
Our intention and aspiration is to continue building out thematic information about every subject – basemaps, imagery, demographics, landscape data, etc. – so anyone can use it to access thousands of authoritative maps.
I am not that good a manager for me to be comfortable borrowing someone else’s money.
I can put tweets on a map to show who is saying what where, which could be used for marketing or social research.
Someone once told me be interested, not interesting – that really clicked for me.
When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life’s work. I couldn’t sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I’m attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.
In a nursery, if you don’t take care of those plants, your profits get lost real quickly. You have to weed. You have to water. You have to nurture. Also, you have to take care of your employees in such a way that they do the same.
The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature… these are not good stories.
Landscape architecture is basically geodesign; it’s designing geography. And yet geodesign is not only done by landscape architects, it’s done by some of the world’s largest corporations.
On the landscape crew, I learned a lot from the other workers. We treated everybody equally, and we worked hard.
We have been supporting GIS in schools for more than 25 years.
We have a rich and vibrant partner ecosystem with several thousand formal business partners. Some of them are very large companies that we collaborate with in many ways.
We have millions of users around the globe who do amazing things with our technology every day.
ArcGIS is an integrated Web GIS that is supported by services. These are abstracted in a geoinformation model that’s managed by the portal, and then accessible by a number of apps, which are the growing part of this system.
