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Apply for the GIS Cloud’s GIS Day Contest 2019
Every year, thousands of Geogeeks worldwide celebrate International GIS Day. Guys at GIS Cloud are also joining the celebration by launching another GIS Day Contest with the goal to promote initiatives and project ideas...
GIS Day 2019: Here’s how top execs explain what they do
GIS: These three unassuming letters have come to affect almost every aspect of our lives today. And yet, for non-GIS professionals, the framework that manages information pertaining to interpreting and presenting geographical data seems...
GIS Day 2019: A message from educators to future GIS practitioners
Thousands of geo-geeks around the globe celebrate GIS Day on the third Wednesday of November every year. It is an opportunity for schools, universities, governments, non-profits, professionals, and spatially-aware citizens to get together and...
Strava’s gorgeous new maps replace car-oriented features with trail names, terrain
A decade ago, Strava started out as a basic activity-tracking app. Today, with more than 47 million users, it has become a raging social network for the fitness community where cyclists, runners, and sports...
Geospatial jobs of the week – CartoVista, Vizzuaity, Premise, and Orbica are hiring
If your company is looking for new talent and you want to share the opportunity with our community, feel free to submit a job...
Behind the scenes with GSA’s #MyGalileoApp finalists on Awards Day
Almost a year ago, the European GNSS Agency (GSA) announced an exciting competition in which contenders had to design, develop, test, and commercially launch...
Identifying communities at risk of heat islands in 14,000 US cities
US-based nonprofit organization The Trust for Public Land (TPL) has been working for environmental issues in urban communities since 1972. To date, it has...
Geovation marks decade of start-up success by launching Scotland Accelerator Programme
After helping 84 companies to raise £23.3 million in funding and create more than 200 new jobs, location and property data initiative Geovation is...
Geospatial jobs of the week – Uber, Apple, Rolls Royce, and Technical University of...
If your company is looking for new talent and you want to share the opportunity with our community, feel free to submit a job...
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Planet preparing to offer 50cm imagery, more spectral bands
The designer, manufacturer, and operator of the largest constellation of Earth imaging satellites, Planet, is preparing to offer its highest-resolution imagery yet: 50cm.
At its...
Geospatial jobs of the week – Golder, nFrames, Catella, and Transit are hiring
If your company is looking for new talent and you want to share the opportunity with our community, feel free to submit a job...
ESA Phi Week 2019
From 9 – 13 September 2019 the Phi week, organised by the European Space Agency (ESA), took place in its ESRIN facilities in Frascati...
Descartes Labs raises $20 million to advance geospatial analytics platform
New Mexico-based Descartes Labs, a startup that promises to solve the geospatial industry’s big data problem, has raised a cool $20 million in bridge...
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Geospatial jobs of the week – Mapz, UP42, Wunder Mobility, and Mapbox are hiring
If your company is looking for new talent and you want to share the opportunity with our community, feel free to submit a job...
OS turns to machine learning to derive street-level mapping data
Great Britain’s national mapping agency, Ordnance Survey, already has some of the most detailed maps in the world. But now, the geospatial service provider...
The Problem with GIS Standards
In today’s world, there is a lack of efficiency in how people interact with and navigate the
indoors as well as how companies manage their...
Geospatial jobs of the week – Solar Monkey, Catalyte, Datawrapper, and IBI Group are...
If your company is looking for new talent and you want to share the opportunity with our community, feel free to submit a job...
The evolution of indoor navigation technologies
All big companies such as manufacturers, retailers, and commercial property owners have looked for sophisticated indoor positioning technology for recent decades. They were focusing...
Geospatial jobs of the week -National Geographic, Boeing Intelligence & Analytics, and AID GmbH...
If your company is looking for new talent and you want to share the opportunity with our community, feel free to submit a job...
Geospatial jobs of the week – Google, Uber Eats, Remsoft, and Apple are hiring
If your company is looking for new talent and you want to share the opportunity with our community, feel free to submit a job...
UP42 – Open platform and marketplace for satellite data and analytics is now public
Available to beta testers since May 2019, space tech startup UP42 has now launched its open platform and marketplace for satellite data and analytics...
#GeoawesomeQuiz How well do you know your geospatial company acquisitions?
Not only do we keep an eye on the latest developments in geospatial technology, we also like to watch companies grow and sometimes get...
Geospatial jobs of the week – Esri Australia, HOTOSM, Geosite, and GeoSolutions are hiring
If your company is looking for new talent and you want to share the opportunity with our community, feel free to submit a job...
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Top 100 Geospatial Companies and Startups 2020 – Survey Questions
We are starting to work on our survey for the #Top100GeospatialCompanies list for 2020 and we want your input. If you had the opportunity...
Mapping pirate attacks around the world
Another great map from one of my favourite contemporary cartographers John Nelson. This time John took data from Anti-shipping Activity Messages database published by...
More easier & joyful rides your way with Google Maps’ Mixed Modes
Google Maps has not yet been so useful with multipart trips. If reaching a destination required you to travel through multiple points and taking...
Geospatial jobs of the week – Columbia University, Woolpert, Atlas AI, and Seequent are...
If your company is looking for new talent and you want to share the opportunity with our community, feel free to submit a job...
Phiweek Bootcamp 2019: What to Expect
This week, 40 pre-selected participants from around the world will work in teams to respond to a specific industry challenge. Once selected, participation is...
2019 Gender Balance in the GIS Workforce
Is the geospatial industry slowing becoming more gender balanced? Are women progressing proportionately into senior positions? Several years ago a wrote a blog post...
Check out what this new amazing 3D map of the Milky Way tells us...
When we think about a map of the Milky Way we have an image of a flat disk with several spiral arms. The new...
The latest high-res imagery at your fingertips
The quality of any satellite image is determined by its spatial resolution, and from this perspective, high-resolution imagery is undoubtedly beyond competition as it...
Geospatial jobs of the week – MongoDB, Geophy, Towson University, and Hexagon PI are...
Are you enthusiastic about location data or anything geospatial, then this is the job portal for you! At Geoawesomeness, we’re working on creating an...
How drones are being used in and beyond the geospatial industry
It was not that recent in history that UAV’s (unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones) were built and used for surveying and mapping. Back in...
#Map2020 Mappers from Uganda, Iraq to present at HOT Summit in Germany
A campaign to map the undermapped regions of the world, #map2020, has wrapped-up with teams from Kampala, Uganda, and Erbil, Iraq winning the top...
Geospatial jobs of the week – Cloud to Street, Graphicacy, University of Oregon, and...
Are you enthusiastic about location data or anything geospatial, then this is the job portal for you! At Geoawesomeness, we’re working on creating an...
GSA shortlists final 10 projects for €100K #MyGalileoApp bounty
At the beginning of this year, the European GNSS Agency (GSA) announced a competition in which contenders had to design, develop, test, and commercially...
Planet launches AI-based platform, automating satellite imagery analytics
With the rise of swarms of micro satellites, the Earth Observation industry is getting a new level of detail. Thanks to Planet's 3m spatial...
Drones and Lidar – A Match Made in Cartometric Modeling Heaven
After consecutive hurricanes carved their way through the Gulf of Mexico in August and September of 2017, of paramount importance was restoring the crippled...
How satellite imagery is being used to map coral reefs worldwide
For the first time ever, scientists are leveraging high-resolution satellite imagery and advanced analytics to create an accurate global mosaic of the world’s coral...
Geospatial jobs of the week – WeWork, GomSpace, TeraBee, and GeoPlace is hiring
Are you enthusiastic about location data or anything geospatial, then this is the job portal for you! At Geoawesomeness, we’re working on creating an...
Geospatial jobs of the week – Cesium, ESRI, Safe Software, and URSA Space are...
Are you enthusiastic about location data or anything geospatial, then this is the job portal for you! At Geoawesomeness, we’re working on creating an...
Location intelligence to scale new heights with Near receiving funds worth $100M
Marketing has gained new grounds with location intelligence. Companies, today, are in a far better position to target the right audience and design their...
Our Geospatial Job Portal, Explained
At the beginning of the year, we saw that the geospatial industry was lacking a centralized job portal for people who are passionate about...
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Every year, thousands of Geogeeks worldwide celebrate International GIS Day. Guys at GIS Cloud are also joining the celebration by launching another GIS Day Contest with the goal to promote initiatives and project ideas that influence advancement and sustainability...
GIS: These three unassuming letters have come to affect almost every aspect of our lives today. And yet, for non-GIS professionals, the framework that manages information pertaining to interpreting and presenting geographical data seems alien. But since geo executives...
Thousands of geo-geeks around the globe celebrate GIS Day on the third Wednesday of November every year. It is an opportunity for schools, universities, governments, non-profits, professionals, and spatially-aware citizens to get together and recognize the valuable contribution geographic...
A decade ago, Strava started out as a basic activity-tracking app. Today, with more than 47 million users, it has become a raging social network for the fitness community where cyclists, runners, and sports enthusiasts go to record activities,...
If your company is looking for new talent and you want to share the opportunity with our community, feel free to submit a job using the online form for us to review and include in our list! If you...