The following are GISCafe Voice’s Geospatial Predictions for 2014. Some of them were on last year’s list, but continue on as important predictions for change in 2014. There was big change in 2014, in the delivery of products, demand for certain types of products such as for disaster recovery, tracking and restoration and mobile apps, as well as the coming of age of indoor location mapping. See if our predictions line up with what your predictions are for 2014!
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Archive for 2013
Top Geospatial Predictions for 2014
Thursday, December 19th, 2013
For Santa watchers everywhere….
Wednesday, December 18th, 2013
Esri’s interactive Santas Around the World allows you to explore 29 different cultural and geographical variations of Santa Claus and learn about holiday traditions across four continents.
GeoMetri for indoor/outdoor location analytics
Monday, December 16th, 2013Michael Healander, Director of the GISi Indoors business unit, a part of GISi, a 22-year-old location technology company, talked about the GISi Indoors product GeoMetri released in July 2013.
Esri releases CityEngine 2013 3D urban design software
Friday, December 13th, 2013Esri has released CityEngine 2013, the latest version of its 3D urban design software. The release includes a new software developer kit (SDK) that enables CityEngine procedural modeling technology to be used in 3D software packages such as Autodesk Maya, 3ds Max, and SketchUp.
Esri CityEngine is among the first 3D urban design software applications to include seamless export to the web via CityEngine web scenes.
Topcon debuts BIM 3D Layout and LN-100 at Autodesk University 2013
Monday, December 9th, 2013TopCon founded in 1932, is a global positioning company that today has divided its focus into positioning, smart infrastructure and eye care.
LN-100
What’s new in geo at Autodesk University 2013
Thursday, December 5th, 2013Robots for the future jobsite, flying drones for delivering packages and reality capture were all part of the show at Tuesday morning’s Mainstage presentation at Autodesk University 2013. Clearly, these technology directions are dependent upon location and geospatial technology.
Iris the robot
Safe Software announces FME Cloud Public Beta
Wednesday, November 27th, 2013Don Murray, Co-CEO of Canadian-based Safe Software, a leader in spatial data transformation, spoke with GISWeekly yesterday regarding their announcement of FME Cloud service public beta offering. FME Cloud expands its proven data integration technology into the iPaaS (integration platform as a service) market with its new cloud-based service.
Barrett Higman, GIS Officer of Alpine Shire Council shares his experience after designing his award-winning project BAL Plan using FME Cloud during the private beta program.
Public beta of Geotrigger Service launched
Friday, November 22nd, 2013Yesterday, Esri launched the public beta version of its cloud-based Geotrigger Service for developers to create location-aware apps for iPhone and Android without using up their battery life. The beta Geotrigger Service is free and the official release will rely on feedback from developers.
Apps built on the Esri location platform will be able to gather business intelligence of the location of people and when the app is being used, adding location awareness and alerts to other services developers can take advantage of on the Esri location development platform. Developers will be able to design apps that send messages to users to signify when they arrive or leave an area defined by a geofence. (more…)
Smartphones will have location-based sensor fusion as standard
Wednesday, November 20th, 2013Location-based sensor fusion will become a standard feature in as smartphones embrace constant, ubiquitous location, according to ABI Research’s report, “Location-based Sensor Fusion: Companies, Technologies, and Revenue Opportunities”. The report outlines how sensor fusion will evolve to support indoor location and the companies best placed to succeed in this space. Location-based sensor fusion will pave the way for the use of the “quantified self, ambient intelligence,” as well as provide huge potential around advertising and retail.
USGS commemorates its involvement with GIS on GIS Day
Friday, November 15th, 2013On November 20th, GIS Day, the USGS will commemorate their commitment to GIS. In spite of all the new technologies for mapping currently, the USGS would like to remind people that for the past 130 years, it has been the primary producer of topographic data for the U.S. and is producing its own new and emerging geospatial technologies and products.
Geologic map of the Holy Cross quadrangle, Colorado.
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