Bringing GIS into schools gets the kids very excited and indirectly teaches them different components of STEM education. That’s been illustrated at school after school. – Jack Dangermond
I want to have all that scientific information that we’re building be used in designing the future so that people who make geographic decisions – and here it’s not just land-use planners, but it’s everyone: foresters, transportation engineers, people who buy a house – can analyze all of these information layers and design a future. – Jack Dangermond
A number of organizations are already using Web GIS to create shared information and facilitate collaboration, and it is literally changing the way organizations operate. – Jack Dangermond
There is the GIS world that is largely managing authoritative data sources, supporting geocentric workflows like fixing roads, making cities more livable through better planning, environmental management, forest management, drilling in the right location for oil, managing assets and utilities. – Jack Dangermond
I am not that good a manager for me to be comfortable borrowing someone else’s money. – Jack Dangermond
GIS is the only technology that actually integrates many different subjects using geography as its common framework. – Jack Dangermond
I am hunting for people who would be a good colleague or a teammate, not someone who works for me. – Jack Dangermond
In a nursery, if you don’t take care of those plants, your profits get lost real quickly. You have to weed. You have to water. You have to nurture. Also, you have to take care of your employees in such a way that they do the same. – Jack Dangermond
As an organization, Esri is strong, and we’re continuing to grow. We’re dedicated to this. And we’re excited to see what you can accomplish and to watch your work evolve. – Jack Dangermond
A location-aware tablet will let us use what’s called geodesign to compose participatory, what-if scenarios onsite, using maps that several people can share – something we could always do with paper but that’s been a challenge with digital maps in the field. – Jack Dangermond
I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth’s landscape. – Jack Dangermond
Google has been an amazing benefit for our business. People understand the whole world of mapping and want to do more than not get lost. They want to do spatial analytics. It’s been fantastic for us. – Jack Dangermond
The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature… these are not good stories. – Jack Dangermond
It takes a while for executives to understand that every company is a spatial company, fundamentally: where are our assets, where are our customers, where are our sales. But when they get it, they light up and say, ‘I want to get the geographic advantage.’ – Jack Dangermond
Once you digitize data, you can actually analyze patterns and relationships in geographic space – relationships between certain health patterns and air or water pollution, between plants and climate, soils, landscape. – Jack Dangermond
We started with things like locating ski runs or locating a transmission line corridor or locating a new town or doing a coastal zone plan. We ourselves weren’t doing the planning work, but we were doing all the mapping work for the landscape architects and planners who would subsequently incorporate the maps into their actual designs. – Jack Dangermond
I prefer to find craftspeople I can be colleagues with and who take an area of responsibility and run with it. – Jack Dangermond
Landscape architecture is basically geodesign; it’s designing geography. And yet geodesign is not only done by landscape architects, it’s done by some of the world’s largest corporations. – Jack Dangermond
My parents were immigrants who started a nursery as a way to get us kids through school. I learned around the dinner table about customer service and cash flow and paying bills. – Jack Dangermond
My parents owned a plants nursery. We all grew up growing things and planting things and selling things, and I also managed landscape crews. – Jack Dangermond
I don’t understand why young entrepreneurs feel this pressure to take venture capital or go public. Don’t get me wrong: Public companies are A-OK with me. I just think there is another way. Staying private is a lot more sane. – Jack Dangermond
Something like 80 per cent of business decisions have a location element. In fact, it’s probably higher than that. – Jack Dangermond
Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities. – Jack Dangermond
One city can look at other cities relative to their city and learn something. It’s a matter of sharing the patterns of what exists in one society based on landscape or cultural values versus other cities. – Jack Dangermond
Mapping and visualization is a huge area of work and is of interest to many people. We’re working on reinventing a new kind of 3D cartography to make it easier to tell stories with 3D maps. – Jack Dangermond
We shifted our philosophy from being a computer mapping group that would support planners to the idea of building actual software that would be well engineered. Because at that time, our software was not well-engineered at all; it was basically built with project funding and for project work, largely by ourselves. – Jack Dangermond
