by Gary Menger | Jul 7, 2022 | Non-Resident Population
In Toronto, where I grew up, the summer ritual for many middle-income families included the trek from the city to cottage country every weekend from Victoria Day (May 24th) to Labor Day. The weekly migration of the herds could have easily been a National Geographic...
by Gary Menger | Jun 23, 2022 | Menger's Musings
Geographic naming conventions can be delightfully quirky. The United States of America is a federation of States. Well, except for the four that aren’t because they are Commonwealths. Is there something special about Kentucky which makes it a Commonwealth rather than...
by Gary Menger | Jun 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Freeway drive time engine from our sister company Applied Spatial Technology has a major data update and performance overhaul for its 2022 release. The Freeway engine has been a prominent feature on many of the major site analysis platforms since we first released...
by Gary Menger | May 5, 2022 | Census
The Census Bureau began the task of building a digital map base for the United States several decades ago with the development of the DIME (Dual Independent Map Encoding) files in the 1970’s. By the release of the 1990 Census, the TIGER (Topologically Integrated...
by Gary Menger | Apr 14, 2022 | Current Events, Demographics, Menger's Musings
One of the most noted trends during the COVID years has been the explosion in people working from home. In the early part of the pandemic, anybody who could possibly work from home was required to do so, especially if they weren’t deemed to be essential. Manhattan...
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