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Case Study: Watching over natural hazards with the help of GIS
A lot of environmental issues are regularly addressed and solved by environmental consultants. Their scope of influence spreads within the range of environmental management, assessment, dealing with...
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Using CityEngine in the Study of Landscape Architecture
A few months ago, I was introduced to CityEngine, a 3D modeling software program from Esri that uses ‘procedural rules’ to quickly generate entire cities. Procedural rules are a shortcut to modelling;...
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Case study: Exploring the City of Darwin Map Portal
In the light of our current Map Portal special offer, we present you a use case with a great story of public map implementation in a local government workflow. Local governments as well as different...
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Case study: Sharing the 3D drone mapping imagery with clients
“We are much more efficient with GIS Cloud as all our clients have access to the same data at the same time. Given that we are primarily at photogrammetry company, much of our datasets are very large...
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New ADC WorldMap v7.2 – probably the best global GIS database out there
When you search for a precise road network data for GIS analysis you would go to TomTom or HERE. But what happens when you need a global geographic data of a lower granularity, but proven quality and...
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Celebrate GIS Day and map the history of cartography and GIS on our timeline
Dear Geo-Geeks, for 2015 GIS Day we aim to do something truly Geoawesome and we would like to ask you to do it with us. We would like to create “A Brief History Of Maps” where we will mark on a...
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Hexagon Smart M.App
We have seen the evolution of the maps over a past decades and witnessed the latest trends in sharing the geographical information and serving the solutions to the problems. But, all the maps are...
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Case study: Visualising and Sharing Census Data with Telecom Clients
We bring you a use case demonstrating how cloud based GIS can be used for improving decision making in telecommunications industry through data visualization, sharing and publishing. Technologies...
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Case study: Chennai Silver Lining – A Community Sanitation Planning Using GIS
We talked about recent flooding and using GIS for emergency relief with one of the volunteers for the Chennai Silver Lining – A Sanitation Drive project. We bring you a story about great community...
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How to download data from the OpenStreetMap without a line of code?
OpenStreetMap is a crowdsource project to create a free editable map of the world. By this means you can use OSM data in any GIS or mapping project, both privately and commercially. If you ever needed...
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Taking Location tech to the masses
Data, data everywhere but not a byte is used! GIS analysis can be a powerful driver for Business intelligence but how often it is utilised? Regardless of the accuracy of the numbers in the tweet below,...
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How the Boston Marathon used GIS technology?
Begun in 1897, Boston marathon is always a special marathon event for the running community world-wide. It is held on Patriot’s day, the third Monday of April every year. We have also witnessed the...
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With ArcGIS Maps for Adobe you can finally style your maps in Photoshop and...
Making beautiful maps is a difficult task. Online geoviz platforms like Mapbox, CartoDB or ArcGIS Online are cool for interactive visualisations but sometimes you just need to quickly make a great...
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HERE Reality Lens is the next big thing in GIS
After a few years of writing about all the new, cool and futuristic stuff from the geo industry you don’t expect too much surprises. The “wow effect” happens to me a few time a year if I’m lucky and...
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Offline Maps and Field Data Collection in the era of Mobile Internet
On June 30, 2016, Internet Usage and World Population Statistics revealed the worldwide internet population growth of 900% for the period of 2000-2016. At the same time, internet coverage statistics...
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Mapping tribal burial grounds in New Zealand
Last year during GIS Day Contest, many interesting and noble project ideas on improving communities throughout the world were sent to GIS Cloud. However, the goal set by a Maori tribe descendants...
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How 3D GIS is a becoming a window to an Interconnected Future?
One of the most actual developments in the world of geospatial technologies is a growing interest and a need for a cloud based 3D mapping solutions. 2.5 quintillion bytes of data is being generated...
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Searching for the best global GIS database for your project? Check out the...
Working on a global GIS or mapping project is a challenge on multiple levels but one of the first problems you will face is what spatial data should you use. When you need a seamless geographic data...
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From Research To Industry – The StreetScan Story
In 2009, a group of researchers from Northeastern University received a grant of $18 million from the National Institute of Standards and Technology to develop a new pavement inspection method (Voters...
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GIS is like Sizzler isn’t it?
I admit it. I love Sizzler. When I lived in England the food was … truly bloody awful! Then one sunny day a Ponderosa (then a Sizzler competitor) opened in my town. The joy among the community was...
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