Archive for the ‘GIS’ Category
Thursday, April 6th, 2017
Agricultural merchant Zantra is implementing UK-based Maxoptra dynamic route planning and scheduling software with GPS tracking technology to manage deliveries of its crop protection solutions.
As one of the largest independently owned agrochemical merchants in the UK, Zantra will use Maxoptra to optimize routes in order to reduce unnecessary mileage, control costs and minimize the environmental impact of its transport operations. Integrated with TomTom vehicle tracking solution for real time updates, Zantra believes Maxoptra Delivery improve the company’s ability to customer service, and deliver continual upgrades.
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Tags: cloud, data, geospatial, GIS, GPS, location, mapping, mobile, precision farming, TomTom
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Thursday, March 30th, 2017
CloudCities announced an update to their cloud platform for building insights that adds procedural terrains and advanced search features. CloudCities for AEC professionals and their clients highly simplifies the process of creating 3D plans and combining them with data. The new version makes it possible to immerse the models in beautiful terrains that load quickly and are generated procedurally. The new CloudCities is now available at cloudcities.io.
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Tags: AEC, climate change, cloud, CloudCities, crowdsourcing, data, geospatial, GIS, imagery, LiDAR, mapping, maps, satellite imagery
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Thursday, March 9th, 2017
According to a press release, on February 24th, MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (“MDA”) (TSX: MDA), a Canadian multinational communications and information company providing technology solutions to commercial and government organizations worldwide, and Colorado-based DigitalGlobe, Inc. (“DigitalGlobe”) (NYSE: DGI), a global leader in Earth imagery and geospatial content, announced they have entered into a definitive merger agreement, pursuant to which MDA will acquire DigitalGlobe for US$35.00 per share in a combination of cash and stock.
 Nishinoshima Volcanic Island Growth. Image Courtesy of DigitalGlobe (more…)
Tags: climate change, cloud, data, DigitalGlobe, imagery, intelligence, mapping, maps, MDA, remote sensing, satellite imagery
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Thursday, March 2nd, 2017
Peter Becker, ArcGIS product manager, Esri, talked with GISCafe Voice this week about the ArcticDEM project, that recently released the largest addition of new elevation models to the project. An ongoing collaboration effort between the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), the Polar Geospatial Center (PGC) and Esri, the ArcticDEM project produces high resolution elevation models to support the national security and scientific requirements of the Arctic. It also serves as a public data model that can be used by scientists to assess and augment climate change models. The NGA presented the new ArcticDEM elevation data the twentieth annual Esri Federal GIS (FedGIS) Conference, held February 13 and 14 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC.
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Tags: ArcGIS, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, Google Maps, imagery, location, mapping, maps, mobile, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, Polar Geospatial Center, satellite imagery
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Monday, February 20th, 2017
“Disruptive technology changes the face of industries, but we are also in an age of disruptive data.” – Anne Kemp
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Tags: Bentley, Bentley Systems, climate change, cloud, data, intelligence, location, mapping, maps, mobile
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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 9th, 2017
Pitney Bowes Inc., a global technology company that provides innovative products and solutions to power commerce that acquired the mapping company MapInfo some years ago, announced last week that it has entered a partnership with Cloudera to deploy geospatial processing and data quality solutions to end users on top of Cloudera Enterprise. Clients will now have access to powerful location-based technology to enrich their Big Data investments.
 Pitney Bowes Network Analytics According to company materials, Cloudera clients will now have the ability to not only tackle the volume, velocity and variety of big data, but they will also be able to manage the veracity of it. Currently Pitney Bowes is deploying four Cloudera Certified Technology products that will ensure clients are accessing the highest quality location data to make more accurate and successful business decisions, including Pitney Bowes Spectrum Geocoding for Big Data, Spectrum Location Intelligence for Big Data, Spectrum Data Quality for Big Data and the Spectrum Technology Platform.
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Tags: Cloudera, geospatial, GIS, intelligence, location, mapping, maps, Pitney Bowes, 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, January 19th, 2017
Chris Sheldrick, CEO and Co-Founder of what3words, spoke with GISCafe Voice recently about the multi-award winning addressing system’s recent adoption as an addressing standard for La Poste, the Côte d’Ivoire’s national postal system. Côte d’Ivoire is the first African nation – and second country in the world (Mongolia is the first) – to adopt 3 word addresses to improve its national infrastructure.
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Tags: climate change, cloud, crowdsourcing, data, geospatial, GIS, Google Maps, GPS, imagery, Infrastructure, intelligence, iPhone, location, social media, what3words
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