Location Intelligence

Are there terms you come across in your day to day work whose definitions still seem fuzzy? Do you “sort of” know what they mean, but if pressed you couldn’t confidently provide a definition? Our editors share some terms that still make them uncomfortable and offer definitions.

Today, Pitney Bowes Software (PBS) launches the MapInfo.com portal, a website dedicated to product solutions. Is PBS re-launching the MapInfo brand and why now? Senior vice president of PBS’s Location Intelligence group, James Buckley, and Global Product Manager Rob Savage discuss the reasons for...

This article focuses on a unique site selection problem for calculating the demand of a Muslim population for locating religious facilities (mosques) as an example of services that require short walking distance. Geodecision’s senior GIS Analyst Hany A. Hassaballa shares his methodology for...

"I think now the deep desire of retailers is to reconnect with their customers in a good old-fashioned way and their best hope of that is technology," said Esri global head of sales Chris Cappelli, who visited Australia last week. "I think what we expect to happen in the next couple of...

Last week Google announced something new: a two-week online course introducing its Google Maps, Google Maps Engine Lite and Google Earth software products. Why is Google interested in online courses? What are its goals? And, could this be the beginning of other corporate online offerings?

The 9th Location Intelligence Conference was held in conjunction with the Oracle Spatial and Graph User Conference in Washington, D.C. last week. Our editors share the key takeaways.

Jack Levis, is known to many readers as “the UPS guy” in the Penn State Public Broadcasting production The Geospatial Revolution. He gave the opening keynote at this year's Location Intelligence Conference in Washington, DC. He basically backed up his now-famous quip about how UPS used to be a...

Back in April Pitney Bowes Software announced via a message to customers that it would not be holding its Insights User Conference this year, but rather would use the year to revamp the organization. The event is usually held in May or June. The PB Software group includes the software and...

Google announced new location services APIs, a new Google Maps and a visual refresh for Google Maps at Google I/O last week. There was lots of descriptive coverage from the mainstream and tech press. But there was very little response from the geospatial community - except from Esri. Who should or...

David Cruickshank from SAP's Co-Innovation Lab (COIL) describes in his blog the architecture of how SAP users can perform geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) analysis using both SAP's HANA in-memory database with a workflow to Esri's ArcGIS. Some of the workflow is explained as follows: SAP NS2...