Archive for the ‘Open Source’ Category
Thursday, January 4th, 2018
Happy New Year!
As mentioned in our year-end wrap-up, a great number of events that shaped technology in 2017 were natural disasters. Scientists and experts predict that we will see more of these natural events and will continue R&D efforts to prepare for them.
Smart city technology will become more important as geospatial professionals seek to find better ways to predict, analyze and prepare communities for the onslaught of weather events. Actual Smart Cities are being built in some parts of the world. And to make those smart cities and countries, in some cases, viable, we will grow greater confidence in artificial intelligence, vehicle technology, Cloud, Internet of Things (IoT), drones, high resolution satellites and small satellites, augmented, virtual and mixed realities and data and sensors.
These technologies have become or will become a part of the fabric of geospatial interaction as the demand for them increases.
 The Global Mountain Explorer provides information from global scales down to specific mountains, such as Borah Peak, Idaho pictured above. (Public domain.)
Tags: climate change, data, geospatial, GIS, hurricanes, imagery, indoor mapping, Infrastructure, intelligence, mapping, maps, mobile, NASA, navigation, reality modeling, remote sensing, satellite imagery, situational intelligence, small sats
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Thursday, November 30th, 2017
GISCafe Editorial Calendar 2018*
January:
01/23-01/25 Esri Geodesign Summit Redlands, CA
Editorial topics:
- Top Geospatial Predictions for 2018
- 3D Cities and Geospatial
February:
Editorial topics:
- Small Sats Update
- Current Events
March:
23/20-3/21 Esri Federal GIS Conference 2018, Washington D.C.
Editorial topics:
- Esri Federal Conference Coverage
- Current Events
 Robert Cardillo, the director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, speaks to the GEOINT 2017 symposium June 5. Credit: USGIF (more…)
Tags: ArcGIS, Autodesk, Bentley Systems, climate change, cloud, GIS Day, Google Maps, hurricanes, imagery, indoor mapping, Infrastructure, intelligence, LiDAR, location, maps, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, reality modeling, satellite imagery, situational intelligence, small sats, social media
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Thursday, October 19th, 2017
The Bentley Year in Infrastructure conference held in Singapore October 8-12, kicked off with a Media Day on Monday, October 8th. Among the forums that were offered was one on Utilities and Government, which showcased the company’s commitment to geospatial technologies that are inherent in all of their utility and government applications.
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Tags: #YII2017, Bentley, Bentley Systems, Bentley Year in Infrastructure 2017, climate change, cloud, crowdsourcing, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, Google Maps, hurricanes, imagery, indoor mapping, intelligence, LiDAR, location, mapping, maps, reality modeling, remote sensing, satellite imagery, Singapore, situational intelligence, small sats, social media, Topcon
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Thursday, August 3rd, 2017
Alison Drain, product manager at Boundless, spoke with GISCafe Voice about the new product release of Boundless Desktop 1.1 and strategic partnership with Mapbox announced in July. Mapbox is a location data and mapping data platform for developers.
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Tags: ArcGIS, Autodesk, cloud, crowdsourcing, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, Google, Google Maps, imagery, Infrastructure, location, mapping, maps
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Thursday, July 27th, 2017
At the Esri User Conference 2017 held in San Diego this July, Australian company Nearmap announced a national survey program providing true, high-resolution oblique imagery and derivative 3-D products.
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Tags: ArcGIS, Autodesk, cloud, data, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, Google, Google Maps, imagery, Infrastructure, intelligence, location, maps, mobile, Nearmap, 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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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 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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Tuesday, January 10th, 2017
Happy New Year!
The recent presidential election in the U.S. has created so much uncertainty that it is hard to know what the future of any industry will be. For the first time, I feel there is no point in making predictions for the New Year for the geospatial industry, unless one is an insider with special knowledge of the winds of change.
 Sevenhugs SmartRemote (more…)
Tags: ArcGIS, climate change, cloud, crowdsourcing, data, ESRI, geospatial, Google, GPS, imagery, Infrastructure, intelligence, LiDAR, location, maps, NASA, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, NOAA, satellite imagery, small sats
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