by Gary Menger | Jul 1, 2021 | Canada Data, Maps, Menger's Musings
Most people in the world tend to lump the United States and Canada together, much in the way they would Austria and Germany, or Australia and New Zealand. Of course, this seriously annoys the citizens of these countries, who know better. Often, it is the citizen of...
by Gary Menger | May 13, 2021 | Menger's Musings
This week, AGS released its 2021A datasets. Just two decades ago, most demographics users did so by using a Windows based application which usually used a GIS platform and often proprietary data formats and stored everything on the small local hard drive. The end user...
by Gary Menger | Apr 15, 2021 | Menger's Musings
Like many companies, Applied Geographic Solutions was born of a combination of necessity and entrepreneurial drive. The necessity came about because the company I worked for at the time – Urban Decision Systems – was sold at the end of 1995. The preferred buyer was...
by Gary Menger | Apr 8, 2021 | Menger's Musings
If I were to ask people what their car dashboard gauge labelled “Speed” measures, all but that annoying engineer with the pocket protector would say, duh, the speed of the car. Obviously. But they would be wrong. The speedometer measures the rotation speed of the...
by Gary Menger | Mar 18, 2021 | Covid-19 and Data, Menger's Musings
The world of neighborhood demographics can be almost glacial. Long term trends may be understood, but people are generally sticky and slow to respond to change. In the mid-1960’s at the peak of the American automobile industry, the writing was already on the wall for...
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