Welcome to Zoom, the LizardTech community blog. Over the years we’ve been gratified and even a little surprised at the degree to which people we respect in the geospatial industry really do regard us as the imaging experts. We get asked what we think the best way is to implement this or that technology, often in situations where we’re reaching past our own experience and blazing new trails. Consequently we feel it’s high time we started a more visible dialog with the community we serve and are a part of.

Whence Zoom.

Zoom is the place where we want to get a better feel for what you as geospatial users and developers are thinking and what’s important to you, let you know a little more openly what we’re doing and thinking — along with some of the reasons why — and in general start conversations about whatever comes along in our space. (Speaking of our space, the photo above is of our digs near Pioneer Square in Seattle.)

We invite you to participate by commenting and sending us your thoughts. We hope to engage you in an ongoing dialog that will result in better understanding for all of us about our industry and the challenges facing it. We hope you’ll let us know if we get too full of ourselves. And we hope you’ll let us know what’s interesting to you, what you’d like to see in the tools that help you do your job, and just what the world looks like from your vantage point.

I’m Matt Fleagle, LizardTech’s tech writer. I’ll be gathering posts from Lizards in all parts of our company, some of whom may already be familiar to you. We’ll give you software tips, our impressions of industry happenings and conferences we attend, personal profiles and interviews, news about upcoming releases, and more. So zoom in with us!

See you at upper left…