The term GIS is one that tries to balance two very different disciplines, that of Geographic knowledge and  processes with information systems, that of the computer systems and processing power that allows the computer provision of maps and spatial analysis that was never possible before. As the software and systems have become more and more sophisticated it has often been the fact that GIS has seemed to be more about the IS component and less about the G. This is especially true with the advent of server software for providing map and analysis functionality that can be deployed on the intranet...

Part of me chuckled at the so called hack that affected Twitter today, not that something like this couldn’t affect any site (although given the simple and well known nature of the attack, it really shouldn’t have hit a site like Twitter) but it did remind me of the days in the early 00’s when this sort of thing was common place and the sort of problems we all had to face when coding sites in that era. What did strike me was whilst I did notice it (whilst random JavaScript tweets are always fun doing the same one over and over again is sort of labouring any joke) I wasn’t affected by it. Why...