Earth observation systems and remotely sensed data form the "tip of the spear" of "big data" in geospatial technology. The explosion of satellite and LiDAR data plus the anticipated onslaught of imagery from unmanned aerial systems will push the...
"The search giant sees a day when its mapping service is tailored to users' behavior, possibly even predicting where they want to go. (June 29, 2012)" Google's Ed Parsons shares the vision.
That offer is on the table, as is a similar one from Niagra Falls, NY, to newly minted college gradudates. The Kansas Department of Commerce just started a five-year pilot called the Rural Opportunity Zone program aimed at bring...
Marine Geospatial Ecology Tools (MGET), also known as the GeoEco Python package, is an open source geoprocessing toolbox that includes over 250 tools useful for a variety of tasks. These tasks include downloading popular...
It's rare for a map to be part of an Internet meme but its seems this week's map of earthquakes over magnitude 4.0 from 1898 to 2003 from IDV's user experience and mapping manager John Nelson has that distinction. It shows 203,186...
The Dead Ushahidi site is a bit meta: it documents, on a Crowdmap map (that's the free online tool for anyone to create a crowdsourced map of anything) Crowdmap efforts that are "dead." The "Dead Means Dead" page explains what's...
The word from Flickr is that "a very high majority of the globe will be represented by Nokia’s clever looking tiles." ("Clever looking?") But more cities will be built on OSM data. The blogger calls it Open Street Map; it's really...
Esri’s Answers
Here are just some of the ways Esri describes ArcGIS Online for Organizations (AGOLO), all quoted from Esri provided content.
(1) ArcGIS Online gives you an easy-to-use and intuitive workspace for collaborating with...
That offer is on the table, as is a similar one from Niagra Falls, NY, to newly minted college gradudates. The Kansas Department of Commerce just started a five-year pilot called the Rural Opportunity Zone program aimed at bring young...
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