Dr.
Grant I. Thrall
Professor
thrall@geog.ufl.edu
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/thrall/
Areas of Specialization
- Business Geography and Real Estate Market Analysis
- GIS Applications for Urban and Regional Systems
- Quantitaive Methods
- Economic
- Land Use and Land Value Theory
Educational Background
- PhD -- Geography and Economics, The Ohio State University
- MA -- Economics, The Ohio State University
- BA -- Business and Economics, California State University, Los Angeles
Recent Courses
- GEO 2410 Social Geography
GEO 3602 Urban Geography
GEO 4620 Business Geography Integrated Theory
GEO 5157 G.I.S. in Business
GEO 5605 Advanced Urban Geography
GEO 6509 Seminar in Business Geography
Recent Publications
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Thrall, G. 2005. First (and lasting) Impressions: Looking Back Over My 16 Years in the GIS Industry and My 35 Year Career in Geography. GeoSpatial Solutions 15 (5): 51-54.
Thrall, G. 2005. Mortgage Data Standards. GeoSpatial Solutions 15 (5): 51-54.
Thrall, G. 2005. Digital Map Publishing. GeoSpatial Solutions 15 (3): 46-49.
Thrall, G., and M. Campins. 2004. Mapping the GeoSpatial Community: Part 4. GeoSpatial Solutions 15 (1): 46-52.
Thrall, G., and M. Campins. 2004. Mapping the GeoSpatial Community: Part 3 GeoSpatial Solutions 11: 46-51.
Thrall, G. 2004. International Data Resources for Real Estate and Business Geography Market Analysis. Journal of Real Estate Literature 12 (1).
Rockwood, F., and G. Thrall. 2004. Analyze This: GIS Offers Ways to Pinpoint and Evaluate Land-Before the Competition Does. Builder News: 18-23.
Thrall, G., and M. Campins. 2004. Mapping the GeoSpatial Community: Part 2. GeoSpatial Solutions 14 (9): 44-49.
Thrall, G., and M. Campins. 2004. Mapping the GeoSpatial Community: Part 1. GeoSpatial Solutions 14 (7): 46-52.
Thrall, G. 2004. ESRI’s Community Coder: A Tapestry of LSPs. Geo Info Systems 14 (3): 46-49.
Thrall, G. 2004. Microsoft MapPoint 2004, Basic Business Potential. Geo Info Systems 14 (1): 48-51.
Thrall, G. 2003. Dell’s Precision M60 and HP’s Compaq Presario 3000: Laptops for GIS Road Warriors. Geo Info Systems 14 (10): 49-53.
Thrall, G. 2003. Data Resources for Real Estate and Business Geography Market Analysis. Journal of Real Estate Literature 11 (1): 49-55.
Thrall, G., and N. Mecoli. 2003. Spatial Analysis, Political Support, and Higher Education Funding. GeoSpatial Solutions 13 (7): 44-47.
Thrall, G., and M. Fandre. 2003. Trade Areas and LSPs: A Map for Business Growth. GeoSpatial Solutions 13 (4): 44-47.
Thrall, G. 2002. Data Resources for Real Estate and Business Geography Market Analysis: Upsate. Journal of Real Estate Literature 10 (2): 297-303.
Thrall, G. 2002. 3D GIS (ArcGIS 3D Analyst) 2002. GeoSpatial Solutions 12 (10): 44-47.
Thrall, S., G. Thrall, and E. Borden. 2002. Delineating Hospital Trade Areas. GeoSpatial Solutions 12 (7): 46-51.
Thrall, G. 2002. 2000 US Census Data. GeoSpatial Solutions 12 (2): 49-52.
Books and Book Chapters
Thrall, G. 2002. Business Geography and New Real Estate Market Analysis.
Oxford University Press, 263 pages.
Thrall, S., and G. Thrall. 2005. "Desktop GIS". In Geographical Information Systems: Principles, Techniques, Management and Applications, 2nd edition (Revised). ed. P. A. Longley, M. F. Goodchild, D. J. Maguire and D. W. Rhind, (pages?). New York: Wiley.
Laposa, S., and G. Thrall. 2003. Mass Appraisal and Noise: The Use of Lifestyle Segmentation Profiles to Define Neighborhoods for Hedonic Housing Price Mass Appraisal Models. In Applied GIS and Spatial Analysis, ed. J. Stillwell and G. Clarke, PAGES. Chichester, England: John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
Thrall, G. 2003. Preface and Introduction. In Raster Methods and Analysis for Business Geography. J. Berry, W. M. Keck
Graduate Students Currently Supervised
- Lance Carlson
- Ron Dietz
- Arlene Baker
- Phillip Morris
Biography
Dr. Thrall's expertise is business geography and real estate market analysis, the development of their methods, their applications, and the technology industry itself. His university research is widely cited in academic publications as well as popular publications. American Demographics and Florida Trend Magazine have written articles on his work. He is one of the world's academic and practitioner leaders in geographic information systems for the business sector. He is one of the few academics that have bridged the academic practitioner gap.
Dr. Thrall is recognized for his insight into where the technology and market is going. He has been invited to make many public speaking engagements, and to publish articles for organizations including Fannie Mae and the Appraisal Institute on how the geography technology industry is changing, and how those changes will affect, the fields of banking and real estate.
Professor Grant Thrall has been on the faculty of McMaster University in Canada, and the State University of New York at Buffalo. In 1989, he was Resident Scholar of the Homer Hoyt Institute in Washington DC. In 1990, he was Visiting Distinguished Professor at San Diego State University. Since 1983, he has been Professor of Geography at University of Florida.
Dr. Thrall is an elected member of the Board of Directors of the American Real Estate Society. He is co-editor of the Journal of Real Estate Literature and editor for that journal's publications on real estate information technology. He is a member of the editorial board of Journal of Real Estate Research. He is on the Board of Directors of the International Geographical Union representing Applied Business Geography. He is one of four geographers that have been invited to be fellows of the Weimer School For Advanced Studies In Real Estate and Land Economics, one of the highest accolades in academic and high level practitioner real estate. Professor Thrall is is the only geographer to have been on the academic board of editors of the Appraisal Institute's Appraisal Journal. He has published over one hundred articles, and authored or edited over one-dozen books on geographic analysis and information technology. His ten volume Scientific Geography Series (1984-1987) is the standard reference for academic and practitioner applications of location modeling and applications of geographic information systems to the urban built environment.
His book Business Geography and Real Estate Market Analysis is to be published by Oxford University Press in January 2002.
Dr. Thrall remains at the forefront of the technology and applications though his publications "ShopTalk" and "First Impressions," published since 1991 in GeoSpatial Solutions, formerly Geo Info Systems. Dr. Thrall is the software and data review editor, and writes the Business Geography column, as well as articles on the geographic technology industry.
Professor Thrall's students that complete his core sequence in business geography are high in demand. They have received employment as business geographers and real estate market analysts from companies such as Blockbuster Entertainment, Office Depot, The GAP, Red Lobster, Intergraph, ESRI, and more.
Grant Thrall has advised FannieMay and the the CDC in how changes in the geography technology industry will affect the real estate industry, and public health management. His CDC report was republished with permission in the September 2000 issue, GeoSpatial Solutions. He has also recently been an advisor to the US Department of Justice and the New York State Department of Health.
As a volunteer, Grant Thrall has also lent his expertise to his resident town of Gainesville, Florida; in appreciation, the Gainesville City Commission declared two days as "Grant Thrall Days" for his advice and management of redevelopment in the historic downtown. He is also an elected member of he University of Florida Faculty Senate.
Grant Ian Thrall was born in Pasadena, California, and attended schools in San Gabriel, California, and London, England. He has a BA in Business and Economics, an MA in Economics, and a Ph.D. in Geography and Economics from The Ohio State University (1975).
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