by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I express a bit of angst over the use of “geo.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This post may mean nothing to everyone else in the world, but I have to get it out of my system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I have been overwhelmed with the use of the term geo the past ten years. Just my personal problem, but his is my personal blog, so here goes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Definition: geo, relating to the earth. Okay. Got that. No problem with that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let’s try the term geolocate. That means to locate something on the earth, which is otherwise known as “locate.” Why do folks say “geolocate?” I guess they sound smarter and are paid more money for saying “geolocate.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Next we have geospatial. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Definition: spatial, relating to or occupying space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Okay, let’s combine geo and spatial to have occupying space on the earth. Hmm, I am geospatial as I sit here in the coffee shop typing these words. Good for me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Then we go to geospatial intelligence or GEOINT. Everyone does GEOINT. If you don’t have 20 years experience in GEOINT you can’t get a job in some neighborhoods. So GEOINT is intelligence or knowledge about occupying space on the earth. In other words, where are you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Why don’t we just ask, “Where are you?” Again, GEOINT sounds smarter and causes more money to flow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Again, my blog\u2014my rant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips I express a bit of angst over the use of “geo.” This post may mean nothing to everyone else in the world, but I have to get it out of my system. I have been overwhelmed with the use of the term geo the past ten years. Just my personal problem, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,412,416,66],"tags":[154,413,417,186],"class_list":["post-4551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-language","category-vocabulary","category-word","tag-communication","tag-language","tag-vocabulary","tag-word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4552,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551\/revisions\/4552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}