This post is featured on Huffington Post on July 29 2016

I'm a very unlikely Pokemon GO player. I am not your typical demographic as I am not a millennial, teen or child. I am an outlier to the normal distribution curve of the “typical” Pokemon GO players as I'm almost eligible for senior discounts. Before Pokemon GO, I had never played a video game. It was my professional background in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) that made me curious about this location-based, augmented reality game. But instead of learning about applications of geospatial technologies, to my most surprising and serendipitous discovery, I began learning how to deal with my life-long phobia of snakes, known as ophidiophobia...