At the end of each month, the AGS team looks back at articles and blog posts that we saw this month that stood out to us. Some are from news agencies, and many come from our partners, but not all use our data. Here is the round-up from August 2022.

SiteSeer

You can’t drive through most neighborhoods will small children and not see the i9 Sports signs in yards (well, at least not in North Texas). See how they found new success with SiteSeer.

[Case Study]: i9 Sports Hits Home Runs with SiteSeer Pro

AP

Turns out we aren’t the only ones frustrated by the Census privacy budget. Many demographers have sent a letter to the Census Bureau to ask them to reconsider their methods, though at this point, we doubt that is possible.

Researchers ask Census to stop controversial privacy method | AP News

Korem

Joe Francica revisits an article he wrote nearly 15 years ago about where GIS would be today, with some updates including mobile data that he couldn’t have predicted in 2008.

A Chasm No Longer for Geospatial? | Korem

MyEListing

With inflation and interest rates on the rise, what effect will it have on commercial real estate prices? MyEListing looks at the year up until now and makes some calculations.

Will CRE Prices Drop in Q4 2022? | MyEListing

Sites USA

We aren’t far off from all of our Amazon and Walmart delivering all of our packages with a drone, and it will have an impact on commercial real estate. The team at Sites USA has some observations.

Sites USA

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The Republic of Alberta?

Separatist movements in Canada date to the period immediately following the passage of the British North America Act in 1867 which created the confederation, as

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The Immigrant Imprint

At the time of American revolution, the colonies that eventually became Canada had a population of about 140,000 people – with nearly 2/3 in Quebec.

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Mexico: 2026 and Beyond

The population of Mexico is estimated at 134.4 million people, which is significantly up from the 126.0 million enumerated in the 2020 census. Much of

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