Archive for the ‘location intelligence’ Category
Wednesday, October 8th, 2014
Tim Garcia, vice president of Business Development and Emerging Markets for Moasis Global said in a recent article for GISCafe:
“The latest frontier is how to effectively reach the mobile user by leveraging the data based on a consumer’s geographic position. Utilizing profiles integrated within geo-location, brands, agencies and even small businesses are able to locate consumers within a specific area and target them with the marketing message that is most relevant.”
Moasis’s team combines marketing and the technologies disrupting today’s information ecosystem. They’ve developed a platform based on the fusion of location data and multi-screen delivery, with the flexibility to weather the ongoing change in digital media and local marketing.
Moasis Global created the Intelligent Location Engine marketing platform, which encompasses their GeoGrid technology. In July 2014, they announced a partnership with Esri to provide marketers with consumer segmentation data that classifies US neighborhoods into market segments based on socioeconomic and demographic factors. By integrating Esri’s Tapestry data into a location-based mobile marketing platform, marketers can optimize the performance of their mobile marketing campaigns and better pinpoint the best potential customers and prospects using Moasis.
The partnership facilitates marketers who want to measure the performance and appeal of their mobile marketing and optimize in real time, combine Moasis’ location marketing platform with Esri’s Tapestry data to help target the customers and prospects in a particular area. The platform allows marketers to create behavioral market segments by location and target lifestyle demographics as well as where such customers live, down to their local neighborhoods.
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Tags: ArcGIS, data, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, Google Maps, imagery, location, mapping, Moasis, mobile, satellite imagery, Tapestry data No Comments »
Friday, October 3rd, 2014
Recently I spoke with Mosaik Solutions’ John Gilmer, VP, Data Integrity, Brian McNamara, product manager, Todd Cotts, director, Product Management and Matt Oak, manager GIS department regarding their business and recent announcements.
Mosaik Solutions Coverage
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Tags: ArcGIS, cloud, crowdsourcing, data, ESRI, geospatial, Google, imagery, Infrastructure, intelligence, location, mapping, maps, satellite imagery No Comments »
Monday, September 15th, 2014
Satellite imagery has undergone a paradigm shift in the past couple of years.
Airbus MOJ Tracker
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Tags: cloud, data, DigitalGlobe, ESRI, imagery, intelligence, LiDAR, location, mapping, maps, Microsoft, mobile, NASA, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, NOAA, remote sensing, satellite imagery 1 Comment »
Thursday, September 11th, 2014
GISCafe Voice is running a Special Feature Blog on the topic of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) the week of October 20th. If you wish to have your company included, please let me know, Susan Smith at susan.smith@ibsystems.com The GISCafe UAS Questionnaire will be sent to all companies who offer UAV and UAS products and services, so that we may thoroughly cover all opportunities available. Or, you can print it yourself from this blog and email it to me.
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Thursday, August 28th, 2014
The face of GIS and Geospatial education has changed dramatically over the past few years, with online courses being offered in numerous subjects, ranging from GIS fundamentals to Spatial Analytics and Geodesign. What is more phenomenal is that these courses reach out to all corners of the earth, making a GIS/geospatial education a possibility for almost everyone on the planet.
Screenshot from a Washington College lecture
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Tags: cloud, crowdsourcing, data, education, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, Google, Google Maps, GPS, Infrastructure, LiDAR, location, mapping, maps, mobile, NASA, Online GIS courses, satellite imagery, UAS No Comments »
Thursday, August 14th, 2014
One might not think too much about the historic police boxes that look like American telephone booths that used to dot the UK landscape. Now, only a handful of them are left. Here is a map of all the original ones currently known, as well as replicas of originals.
I’m wondering if the renewed interest in this now defunct form of 911 is as a result of the popular “Dr. Who” PBS series, in which the infamous Doctor goes into his “Tardis” which is in fact, a replica of a 1929 police box.
That’s where the resemblance ends, however, as the Tardis is “much bigger inside than it is outside” with all forms of technology for fighting evil forces within its four walls.
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2014
Today DigitalGlobe of Longmont, Colorado, announced the successful launch of WorldView-3, the company’s sixth and highly advanced high-resolution, super-spectral commercial satellite. From Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the satellite launched on a Lockheed Martin Atlas V rocket at 11:10 PDT.
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Tags: climate change, cloud, data, DigitalGlobe, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, Google, LiDAR, location, mapping, mobile, remote sensing, satellite imagery No Comments »
Thursday, August 7th, 2014
During the week of September 15th, GISCafe Voice will run a special feature blog on the topic, “Satellite Imaging.”
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Tags: ESRI, geospatial, GIS, Google, Google Maps, GPS, LiDAR, location, mapping, maps, remote sensing, satellite imagery No Comments »
Thursday, August 7th, 2014
Microsoft’s flagship mapping product, MapPoint, will be discontinued, along with AutoRoute, Streets & Trips December 31, 2014. Online support will be available for the latter product through July 14, 2015. The MapPoint product offered offline routing and basic business analytics. There were problems with its delivery, it appears, as it was on a two-year upgrade cycle rather than the more frequent updates offered by competing software packages.
There has not been much press or an official announcement from Microsoft, only mentioned on the official Microsoft landing pages for MapPoint and Streets & Trips (via Neowin). Microsoft has decided to discontinue Microsoft AutoRoute, Microsoft Streets & Trips and Microsoft MapPoint.
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Tags: Caliper, demographics, geospatial, GIS, intelligence, location, mapping, MapPoint, maps, Maptitude No Comments »
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014
The Exhibit Floor reveals industry trends, as vendors respond to requests of their customers with timely products and services. The emphasis at Esri UC 2014 was on data and apps, reflecting the trends discussed in Monday’s Plenary session. Global data, the mining of crowdsourcing data, spatial analytics to business users, the launch of WorldView-3 that will open up worlds of data previously unable to be explored – are just a few of the exciting areas covered in the exhibits and special vendor presentations.
TomTom Traffic
This year marked the 22nd Esri conference for veteran company TomTom, which derived originally from the company GDT and later TeleAtlas. According to John Cassidy, vice president of sales and James Pardue, licensing, TomTom’s focus has evolved from the original interest in making Census data better back in the GDT days, to spatial navigation in the present day. Hardware, analytical, navigation and spatial are the primary areas of their business.
“Everyone wants global data,” said Cassidy. “TomTom is heavily invested in the crowdsourcing model.”
Cassidy said that in 2013, 6 billion pieces of information per day were processed by TomTom. In 2014, already 9 billion pieces of information per day have been processed. Their focus has become quality accuracy and quality control.
“Real world users are more valuable,” said Cassidy. “A lot information is gathered using smartphones.”
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Tags: ArcGIS, DigitalGlobe, ESRI, Esri UC 2014, Exelis, GeoMetri, geospatial, GIS, GISi indoors, Google, Google Maps, iForm Builder, location, mapping, mobile, SAP, satellite imagery, TomTom, USGS No Comments »
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