Geospatial Data Plays Vital Role in Smart City Development
Hong Kong is fortunate to benefit from infrastructure developed and managed by advanced technology entities and dedicated government departments. The Environmental Protection Department, for example,...
View ArticleTelenav Open Sources Its AI Map-Making Technology to Improve OpenStreetMap...
Telenav©, Inc., a leading provider of connected-car and location-based platform services, announced the world’s first open-source machine-learning technology designed to detect navigation features in...
View ArticleEsri Publishes Crime Analysis Tutorial
Esri announced the publication of GIS Tutorial for Crime Analysis, second edition. Readers use Esri ArcGIS software and sample data as they work through step-by-step exercises and independent...
View ArticleResearchers Devise More Effective Location Awareness for the...
Anticipating a critical strain on the ability of fifth generation (5G) networks to keep track of a rapidly growing number of mobile devices, engineers at Tufts University have come up with an improved...
View ArticleHow GIS is Making Cities Smarter About Parks
City parks make an essential contribution to the health and wellbeing of residents and the resilience of the urban environment. But until recently, municipal officials and parks managers have had few...
View ArticleWhy GPS Will Never Make the Road Atlas Obsolete
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View ArticleWhy Joao Fernandes Believes Indoor Way-Finding App Buzzstreets Is the Future
How many times have you used Citymapper or Google Maps to guide you to a destination, only to get lost all over again? Large venues, like shopping malls, universities and hospitals, can often require...
View ArticleDeadline to submit Application for a URISA Exemplary Systems in Government...
Each year, submissions are invited in two categories: Enterprise Systems: Systems in this category are outstanding and working examples of using information systems technology in a multi-department...
View ArticleInteractive Town Map Soon Available Online
The North Salem Town Board last week approved an agreement with a technology company to create an online geographic information system, or GIS, a mapping platform for the public. According to the...
View ArticleThe Tech That’s Changing How Cities Help the Homeless
Every day, a team of community health paramedics in Austin, Texas, fans out across the city to provide aid to the growing number of people on the streets. Finding the homeless isn’t always...
View ArticleRecord Breaking Numbers Descend on the Largest Geospatial Event in the UK
The fifth instalment of GEO Business that took place in London last week, will surely be remembered as the busiest show to date, in fact, the exhibition hall was so packed, at times it was hard to make...
View ArticleEsri Announces Release of Sentinel-2 Image Services
Esri, the global leader in spatial analytics, announced that it is releasing Sentinel-2 Image Services to all Esri users for no additional cost. Sentinel-2 is an Earth Observation Satellite that...
View ArticleLocation-Based Services Move Beyond Mobile and Into Enterprise Apps
The ability to access location-based services (LBS) via a real-time API/SDK is critical to making future services and applications useful, especially in business....continued ...
View ArticleNew Features in 2018 Consumer Layout in WebGIS
WebGIS is a part of a Platform Suite which enables you to deliver information through a web, mobile, or smart solution. With it, you can build and extend customized geospatial apps and solutions with a...
View ArticleGoogle’s Next Major Maps Redesign Is Rolling Out, but You Can’t Have It Yet
One of the most popular apps in the world is getting a fresh redesign on Android, although the update isn’t available to everyone for the time being. The new Material Theme design will introduce a...
View ArticleLinkedIn Debuts Your Commute, Navigation and Maps to Evaluate Jobs Based on...
LinkedIn, the social media site that’s aimed at people looking to network or otherwise change up their career prospects, is taking a plunge into location-based services. From today, the company is...
View ArticleEsri Location Intelligence to Integrate with SAP HANA Spatial Services
Esri announced that Esri's ArcGIS software is integrating into SAP's latest cloud-based offering, called SAP HANA spatial services, to help customers create location-aware business applications faster....
View ArticleTake a Walking Tour of Marietta’s Murals With a Neat Interactive Map
If you’re a lover of public art with time and calories to burn, the city of Marietta has something for you. The city’s Geographic Information System (GIS) team of online mapmakers created an...
View ArticleLocation Based Advertising: How Brands Should Avoid Appearing Like Creeps
Recently, Mark Zuckerberg appeared in congressional hearings to discuss matters relating to interference in the last presidential election and concerns about data privacy in general. The main issue of...
View Article3 Steps to Make GIS Part of a Successful Smart City
There’s a revolution in civic innovation taking place in most major cities around the world. One by one, cities are realizing the need to provide easy access to open spatial data and interactive map...
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