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Global Top 100 Geospatial Companies 2022 – 31st Jan 2022

Muthukumar Kumar - 0
6 years ago, Aleksander Buczkowski and I created the 1st #GlobalTop100Geo companies list with the objective of helping our community understand the industry ecosystem better and to enable collaboration and innovation. When we first published the list Aleks and I had little idea that it would turn into an annual...

Trends for 2022 in geospatial data – Ordnance Survey

GeoTrends John Kimmance - 0
What do I think is going to be new in 2022? The government's got three high-level objectives – sustainability, levelling-up and the third is being a scientific superpower. All of which require a significant amount of data to underpin effective policy making and delivery, both from a government perspective,...

A short tale about how I wanted to buy satellite imagery and how difficult it was

Earth Observation Aleks Buczkowski - 3
I have spent over a decade in the geospatial industry and thus know a lot about how things work here but I was shocked when recently buying satellite imagery for a project. I wanted to share with you my experiences and confirm whether it was a rule or an...

Top 15 maps and charts that explain Christmas

TopGeo Aleks Buczkowski - 1
It's that time of year again. Christmas time. The time when millions of people around the world celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, meet with family and friends, give and receive gifts. But was is it all about? We try to answer that question with these 15 maps, charts...

Location intelligence platform Carto raises a $61 million Series C round

Geo Business Nianhua Liu - 0
Location intelligence platform Carto has raised a $61 million Series C round, led by New York-based venture capital Insight Partners, as well as Accel, Salesforce Ventures, Hearst Ventures, Earlybird, and Kibo. Founded in 2012, CARTO provides enable end-to-end analytics workflows and location-based service, allowing hundreds of thousands of users to...

2022 Global Top 100 Geospatial Companies – Nomination status and deadline

Featured Muthukumar Kumar - 0
2021 is slowly inching to its grand finale and so is the deadline for nominating your company to the #GlobalTop100Geo list aka 'Top 100 Geospatial Companies' compiled by Geoawesomeness since 2016. Many of you have written to us in the last days requesting for clarifications and a short extension...

South Sudan data package to support effective and equitable Covid vaccine delivery

#GeoChat Jo Pratt - 1
Covid-19 has been tough for us all and the development of Covid-19 vaccines is starting to offer a lifeline to the world. But, for many, especially those in the world’s poorer countries, it’s yet to make an impact.  As part of the drive to provide equitable access to vaccines, international...

What are the key barriers and challenges in achieving sustainability in Transportation and Logistics?

Offbeat Aleks Buczkowski - 2
Transportation and logistics account for over a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions around the world and plays an essential role in the current climate crisis. Still, for many industry players, it is still hardly uncharted territory. Sustainable transportation and logistics aim to lower the ecological footprint of its tasks,...

Geo Climate Risk Solutions (GCRS) Startup – Women In Geospatial+ Writing Competition

Start-ups Aashi Popli - 2
With an aim to make earth a better and safer place to live in, Geo Climate Risk Solutions (GCRS), India was founded in the year 2014 and offers its solution in areas like geo spatial services, environment and spatial planning, disaster and climate risk reduction amongst many others. Their...

Geospatial Expert Panel – Ng Siau Yong – 2022 Top 100 Geospatial Companies

Geospatial Leaders Muthukumar Kumar - 1
Geoawesomeness team is delighted to announce Ng Siau Yong, Director of GeoSpatial and Data Division & Chief Data Officer at the Singapore Land Authority (SLA) joins us as an expert on the panel for the 2022 Top 100 Geospatial Companies. Ng Siau Yong is the Director of GeoSpatial and...

Women in Geospatial+ writing webinar and competition 2021

Competition Petra Millarova - 4
A couple of months back, Rohini Swaminathan, a fellow member of the Women in Geospatial+ steering committee, introduced me to Anusuya Datta. We were talking about the WiG+ internal Newsletter and how to get more women into professional writing and an idea to organise a webinar and a writing...

We’re building the future of the geospatial community and we need your talent

Featured Muthukumar Kumar - 0
Geoawesomeness celebrated its 10th anniversary earlier this year and we believe it's time to (re)envision the future of the Geospatial community! We are thrilled you’re considering working/volunteering with us. You’ll be joining a friendly, fun, innovative, and inspiring global community. Over the past decade over 150 authors with diverse educational, cultural...

GIS helping with significant emissions reductions at the Oil and Gas Authority

GIS Tanya Knowles - 0
Sounds counterintuitive right? How can the Oil and Gas Authority make any significant impact toward Net Zero 2050? The UK is currently reliant on oil and gas for the majority of our heating and electricity needs and will retain some of that reliance for years to come while we transition...

Using geospatial analysis to identify where people are and understand who is being ‘left behind’

Earth Observation Helen Mazalon - 3
As a GIS Technician focussing on fragile and complex environments such as war-torn regions, I am constantly reminded how Geospatial tools and data play an integral part in achieving a more globally sustainable future. In particular, the UN Sustainable Development Group 2030 Agenda commitment to “Leave No One Behind”...

Geospatial in Agriculture – WiG+ Essay

Geo NEWS Njambi Kimani - 0
  It’s the beginning of April and Wambui a small-scale farmer in the Bahati Settlement area of Nakuru- Kenya is worried that the rains are a little late. She plans to plant potatoes, beans, and maize in the two hectares farm where she also resides and keeps three dairy cows....

Slow Ways – a fast adopter of geospatial technology

Geo NEWS Sarah Taigel - 0
Geoawesomeness has already reported on the phenomenon which is Slow Ways, however nearly a year later and with the project team awarded significant funding from the Lottery Community Fund it is time to once again showcase this innovative project and update readers on how this is a case study...

Geospatial Expert Panel – Osamu Ochiai – 2022 Top 100 Geospatial Companies

Geospatial Leaders Muthukumar Kumar - 0
Geoawesomeness team is delighted to announce Osamu Ochiai, Senior Engineer, Manager for Satellite Applications and Operation Center at Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency joins us as an expert on the panel for the 2022 Top 100 Geospatial Companies. Osamu has experienced for more than 25 years to develop Earth observation satellite data...

Using Geospatial Technology to Connect with the Human Experience

GIS Michael Ivison - 1
"Geospatial tells the story of the delivery driver taking an optimized route. Geospatial tells the story of the construction worker putting in the groundwork to create a livable community. Geospatial tells the story of everyday people, where they shop, and what they like to buy. If we let it,...

Geoinformation as an innovative decision support tool in fighting COVID-19 – using wastewater data.

GIScience Eniola Babatunde - 2
Data is increasingly defining us – everything in our built and natural world has a geospatial component. Over the years, spatial data has become more ubiquitous and detailed. Geographical data drives many decisions and location intelligence has proven to enhance analytics. Hence, it is useful in uncovering powerful insights,...

What the awesomeness is Metaverse again?

Offbeat Muthukumar Kumar - 0
By now, most of you have heard the big news - Mark from Facebook would really like us to call Facebook by its new name - 'Meta'. Let's step aside from all the reasons behind this move and focus on one particular sentence from his announcement i.e. “But over time,...

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