Archive for the ‘field GIS’ Category
Thursday, February 16th, 2017
Six months ago the location-based augmented reality game Pokémon Go was released. Developed in partnership by Niantic and Google, it is really a data mining type of game developed for iOS and Android devices, where players can nab the historic Pokémon in their own local environments. The marriage of geospatial and augmented reality is a gamechanger for the geospatial industry, evidenced by just how many people can be reached with over 100 million Android downloads in the first month of its entry onto the market.
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Tags: cloud, crowdsourcing, geospatial, GIS, Google, Google Maps, GPS, location, mapping, maps, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, Pokémon Go, PokéStops, smartphones, social media
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Thursday, February 2nd, 2017
As I wrote last year, 80 percent of all business data contains a location component, yet most organizations are not using it or don’t know how. Boundless’ open, cloud-based and highly scalable platform, allows developers to deploy an entire scalable GIS infrastructure with just one line of code, and analysts can visualize all of their geospatial data in real time without any licensing fees.
This development solution addresses the increasing demand for an alternative to proprietary geospatial solutions (Esri and Hexagon, for example). Boundless offers greater functionality than Esri’s ArcGIS at 10 percent of the cost.
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Tags: Boundless, cloud, data, intelligence, location, mapping, maps, Open Source
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Thursday, January 26th, 2017
Climate Migrants is an Esri Story Map that tells the story of people misplaced geographically by climate change and in some cases, other change factors. Allan Carroll of Esri and his team wanted to create a climate change map that was oriented toward people.
The primary goal of the team is to produce apps that enable other people to tell stories. An analysis report by the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. was an influence in the development of the Story Map, which charts what factors contribute to people becoming “climate migrants.” In some cases, such as Syria and Darfur, droughts have precipitated migrations and led to violence and war.
“Some like these, are caused by both climate change and political indicators, sometimes by shortsighted government policies, but climate is a factor in all of them,” said Carroll.
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Tags: ABI Research, ArcGIS, climate change, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, mapping, mobile, story maps
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Thursday, December 1st, 2016
In mid-October, Esri held their new annual GeoConX conference in Phoenix, AZ, now a combination of their former EGUG electric utility conference, and the Telecommunications User Group (TelUG).
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Tags: DataCapable, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, R&D, telecom, utility
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Thursday, November 17th, 2016
Amazingly, 80 percent of all business data contains a location component, yet most organizations are not using it or don’t know how. On Nov. 15, Boundless expanded its open GIS solution into an ecosystem of geo-aware open source data, content and expertise that makes the latest GIS data easily available to developers and analysts in both public and private sectors.
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Tags: ArcGIS, climate change, cloud, crowdsourcing, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, Google, location, mapping, maps, remote sensing
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Tuesday, November 8th, 2016
GISCafe Editorial Calendar 2017*
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Tags: Autodesk, Bentley, climate change, cloud, crowdsourcing, data, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, location, mapping, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, satellite imagery, small sats
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2016
It’s difficult not to be inspired when attending the Bentley Year In Infrastructure Conference, with so many talented professionals gathered to show off their infrastructure projects.
 Innovation in Rail and Transit Winner: Bandedamark – New Line, Copenhagen-Ringsted, Copenhagen Capital Region, Denmark. Image Courtesy of Bentley Systems (more…)
Tags: #YII2016, AEC, Bentley Systems, cloud, crowdsourcing, data, geospatial, GIS, Google, GPS, imagery, Infrastructure, intelligence, LiDAR, location, mapping, maps, satellite imagery, USGS, Year In Infrastructure 2016, YII 2016
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2016
In its first version, SmartBetterCities’ released CloudCities virtual reality tool, that can be imported from CityEngine, SketchUp and GoogleEarth. CloudCities is an online platform for hosting, sharing and visualizing smart 3D city models. The models are based on OpenStreetMap, are lightweight and used mostly by mobile users, with an easy drag-and-drop workflow. It was used in a development review at Harvard University urban campus in Kindle Square, where building sensors and monitoring were integrated into visualization.
CloudCities’ newest release includes a massive 3D format support plus the marriage of BIM and GIS data in its 3D Mash-Up feature, plus support for numerous well-known GIS and BIM formats. CEO and co-founder Antje Kunze talked to GISCafe Voice about this exciting new release.
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Tags: climate change, cloud, crowdsourcing, data, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, GPS, imagery, Infrastructure, intelligence, SmartBetterCities
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Thursday, October 6th, 2016
Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure acquired GISquadrat GmbH of Vienna, Austria. The acquisition is aimed at enhancing Hexagon’s geospatial, cloud and mobile solutions for governments and utility providers in Europe as well as bringing in more than 300 customers and thousands of users into the Hexagon fold.
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Tags: geospatial, GIS, Google, government, GPS, Hexagon, Infrastructure, intelligence, Intergraph, location, mapping, maps, mobile, navigation, utilities
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Wednesday, July 13th, 2016
The ArcGIS Apps technical sessions in the Exhibit Hall were among the most popular attractions at the Esri User Conference 2016 this year. This technical session was about managing and deploying your data on devices, namely, the iPad with ArcPad, presented by Esri’s Denise King.
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Tags: ArcGIS, cloud, ESRI, geospatial, GIS
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