DOT taps into Waze, GPS data
The Department of Transportation announced plans for two pilot programs that will integrate its existing datasets with near-real-time data sources to improve highway safety. The first will integrate...
View ArticleCharlevoix Council Decides on Location for Public Services Facility
The Charlevoix City Council voted Monday to move forward with design recommendations for the new combined public services facility, which will house the city's public works, street and electric...
View ArticleThe Expansive Reach of Web GIS
The geographic organizing aspect of GIS has been part of the thinking from the beginning, but now factor in the impact of the web. Web GIS provides an online infrastructure for making maps and...
View ArticleMobile Data Drives New Customer Insights: Esri and UberMedia Help Retailers...
Esri, a world leader in spatial analytics, and UberMedia, provider of the highest quality mobile data business solutions, announced a partnership to provide retailers with location-specific mobile...
View ArticleFacebook Wants to Be Your Go-To Source for Vetted Local News
The Facebook journalism project that was sparked by interference in the U.S. election could soon bring another feature to the social network. The Facebook local news section, dubbed “Today In,” is...
View Article2018 Esri Federal GIS Conference
The Esri Federal GIS Conference is the ideal event to share your GIS successes with the user community and be recognized for your work. I encourage you to be the spark that stimulates newfound...
View Article12 Google Maps Tricks You'll Use Time and Time Again
What comes to mind when you think of Google Maps? Many people would say it's simply a navigation tool, and they would be wrong. The app is packed with features that make it so much more than a GPS....
View ArticleNebraska Officials Hope to Better Locate 911 Callers
Nebraska is trying to transform its 50-year-old 911 system to better locate calls made on cellphones, according to public safety officials. ...continued ...
View ArticleLocation Technology Finds Growth at CES
While connected and autonomous vehicles seemed to be the rage at this year’s CES, a growing number of location companies exhibited new products. Not all of the technology, much of it exhibited in IoT...
View ArticleTop 6 Trends Impacting Enterprise Mobility in 2018
Enterprise mobility, the tendency of employees in organizations to work from outdoors using mobile and cloud services, has become a greater area of focus over the past recent years. With the advent of...
View ArticleThe Woman Who Transformed How We Teach Geography
On the morning of October 30, 1916, Zonia Baber stood in front of four hundred government officials and leaders in the arts and sciences and told them to go to hell. As a representative of the...
View ArticleCARTO Moves to Mapbox to Power Location Intelligence Maps
Location intelligence platform CARTO helps companies use location data to drive business decisions. CARTO software lets cities see the impact of a subway shutdown, sales teams build optimized...
View ArticleTomtom Launches Autostream: A Revolutionary Map Delivery Service for...
TomTom announced the launch of TomTom AutoStream, an innovative map delivery service for autonomous driving and advanced driver assistance systems. Announced today at CES, are the first partners to use...
View ArticleThinkWhere Launches New Cloud Mapping Service
Stirling-based Geographic Information Systems (GIS) company thinkWhere has launched theMapCloud, a new cloud-based platform for geographic data.theMapCloud is a fully-managed, secure, cloud-based...
View ArticleHexagon Geospatial Signs Partnership Agreement with USGIF
Hexagon Geospatial is proud to announce that they are an official partner with USGIF, the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation. The USGIF is the only organization dedicated to promoting...
View ArticleSatellogic Creates Geo-Analytical Group and Plans a Double SmallSat Launch
Satellogic has launched a new geo-analytical solutions group that will work hand-in-hand with the company's clients to provide responsive data and data analysis support for immediate impact on business...
View ArticleEsri Releases World's First Complete Utility GIS Platform
Esri announced that it is releasing advanced network capabilities for utilities as part of the company's ArcGIS platform. The ArcGIS Utility Network Management extension, which delivers the new utility...
View ArticleOGC Announces Disasters Interoperability Concept Development Study
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has announced the Disasters Interoperability Concept Development Study (CDS). The CDS will assess the current state of data and product exchange technologies as...
View ArticleCompare EDAMS GIS vs. FuturaGIS
If you want a reliable Geographic Information Systems - GIS product for your business you must take time to assess several alternatives. It doesn’t have to be complicated, and can be as quick as...
View ArticleMapping Our Park Trees
The Santa Fe Public Spaces Tree Inventory Project, currently in its third year, gathers pertinent information about the types and conditions of our trees. The project has evolved from hand-written data...
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