Usability and the GeoWeb Part 3: Protect Your Users From Themselves

As I write this post, I’m attending the GeoWeb 2009 Conference in Vancouver, BC.  This is then a pretty appropriate time to drop part 3 in the Usability and the GeoWeb series.  Part 1 in the series discussed the importance of hiding unnecessary complexity from the user, while Part 2 focused on the importance of [...]

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Usability and the GeoWeb Part 2: Provide Feedback

This post is the second in a multi-part series on usability in web-mapping applications.  Dave has spoken extensively on this topic of late…and much of this is just putting fingers to keyboard on the issues we’ve been harping on for some months now.  The first post in the series asserted that we, as developers and [...]

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Usability and the GeoWeb: Part 1 of ?

Myself and my partner in crime, Dave Bouwman, have talked incessantly in trade publications and at conferences of late about the Geospatial Web or “GeoWeb” and what it means to GIS professionals and software developers.  This post is the first in a several part series on usability issues and concerns when designing and building applications [...]

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