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“Why do buildings look like black holes in our geographic database?” For Esri, this question has formed a recurring theme in its conversations with the users of its geographic information system (GIS). Finally, the location intelligence behemoth is putting...
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Crowdsourced parking app SpotAngels has just closed a $2.3 million funding round. Lars Rasmussen, the co-founder of Google Maps, and Luc Vincent, former Google Street View chief and VP engineering at Lyft, are among the backers. But, what is...
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