CARTO Announces CARTO Traffico to Address Transportation Congestion and City...
CARTO, a leader in location intelligence, today announced the availability of CARTO Traffico, a traffic management solution powered by crowdsourced GPS data. The packaged solution helps cities better...
View ArticleHow Uber Moves the ‘Blue Dot’ to Improve GPS Accuracy in Big Cities
You might have noticed a problem when you try to use your smartphone to navigate a big city: your GPS location is usually super inaccurate. Sometimes it's only by a few feet, but if you’re in a...
View ArticleDiamonds for County’s Online Mapping System
Diamonds to the Luzerne County Geographic Information Systems (GIS)/Mapping department for putting basic GIS data in a searchable, interactive map format for the entire county. For most people, GIS...
View ArticleGIS Market Boosting the Growth Worldwide
The Global Geographic Information System (GIS) Market Research Report is an in-depth study and professional analysis on the current state of the Geographic Information System (GIS) market. Company...
View ArticleGoogle Announces Maps Platform and Streamlined APIs to Benefit Location-Based...
After benefiting game developers this March by introducing industry solutions for game studios to allow them to create game worlds based on the real world by using Google Maps data, Google is now all...
View ArticleFor a Truly ‘Smart’ City, You Need a ‘Geographic Action System’
Many urban planners, artificial intelligence researchers, civil engineers and public officials aspire to create “smart” cities. Their goal is to deploy advanced technology to better study, monitor and...
View ArticleSurvey of India to help Clean Ganga mission with GIS data
The National Mission for Clean Ganga has brought on board Survey of India, to facilitate Ganga rejuvenation by using the Geographic Information System (GIS) technology, for which an estimated Rs 86.84...
View ArticleLocation Intelligence – Essential Ingredient for BFSI
Evolving technology trends under Digital India bring location intelligence to the forefront as an essential element of business processes in the Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI) sector....
View ArticleUSGS & DOE Release Nationwide Wind Turbine Map and Database
This new Wind Turbine Database is a comprehensive dataset of U.S. wind turbine locations and characteristics that is easily accessible, more accurate, and updated more often than existing wind turbine...
View Article5 Big Reasons To Move Your County Web GIS To The Cloud
Most folk fall in to two camps: either the cloud is where you get stuff done, or it's that shiny thing you've dropped in the too-hard basket because, well, you've got that server right there, and it's...
View ArticleA Comprehensive Guide to the United States Location Based Services and Real...
This report by Questale covers the current market size of the United States Location Based Services and Real TimeLocation Systems market and its growth rates based on 5 years history data along with...
View ArticleNew Online Map Makes Tracking Construction Easier for Minot Residents
Minot residents will find it easier to stay abreast of city construction projects, navigate detours and bypass road closures this year with the city’s new Geographic Information System...
View ArticleSix Top Tools to Build Augmented Reality Mobile Apps
Augmented reality (AR) has become the new trend in the digital world and you can hardly meet a person who is not familiar with it after the boom that Pokemon Go brought into the lives of the average...
View ArticleToronto Police Use Maps and Apps to Strengthen Community-Based Policing
On a given day, the Toronto Police Service (TPS) receives 70 mental health crisis calls. A dedicated Mobile Crisis Intervention Team made up of a nurse and police officer juggle the demands of the...
View ArticleEsri ArcGIS Online Users Can Now Access ArcGIS Data in Microsoft Power BI
Esri, a global leader in spatial analytics,today announced ArcGIS Online users can work on their own private content directly within Microsoft Power BI using the built-in visualization software ArcGIS...
View ArticleDr. Jim Reilly Takes the Helm at the U.S. Geological Survey
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke today welcomed the arrival of Dr. Jim F. Reilly II at the Department of the Interior to begin his tenure as the 17th director of the U.S. Geological Survey...
View ArticleAbout EPA's Geospatial Program
The term geospatial refers to anything that has a geographic location on the earth. Our geospatial information will help you answer questions...continued ...
View ArticleThe Right Direction: How Mapbox Is Winning Over Developers To Challenge...
Eric Gundersen sipped tea and haggled for maps as he sat in the basement of a government office in Kabul. A tattooed, fast-talking American with perennial stubble, Gundersen was running an 18-person...
View ArticleCounty Turns to Drones for Home Appraisals
Recent advances in technology is helping Hays County officials to better accommodate the process of appraising properties.Every three years, every parcel of property in Hays County is reviewed by the...
View ArticleExploiting Satellite Data for Public Services
Interview: Sara Huntingdon, manager of the Space for Smarter Government Programme, talks about cultivating ‘the art of the possible’ in using an unfamiliar source of data to support business change...
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