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Why we’re organizing a Meetup with the Geoawesomeness Community
Geoawesomeness will be turning 8 this year! Since then, we’ve grown as a community, have had over 80 guest bloggers, interviewed over 25 of the most innovative geospatial startups, totalling to over 2000 blog...
Jobs in Geo – Week 12
At Geoawesomeness, we’re working on creating an interactive job portal for companies to submit jobs and for job-seekers to look for jobs in the geospatial industry.
For the past two months so, we’ve been sharing...
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Using Google Maps for walking directions is arguably more difficult than following the magical blue dot while driving a vehicle. Though the Google Maps app shows a cone of view indicator to tell you...
Jobs in Geo – Week 11
At Geoawesomeness, we’re working on creating an interactive job portal for companies to submit jobs and for job-seekers to look for jobs in the geospatial industry.
For the past two months so, we’ve been sharing...
Leveraging Geospatial Tools and Technology to Document the Land Rights of Vulnerable Communities
Everyone deserves to be recognized and have their rights documented, especially when it comes to the land they live and work on. This statement...
Jobs in Geo – Week 10
At Geoawesomeness, we’re working on creating an interactive job portal for companies to submit jobs and for job-seekers to look for jobs in the...
Meet Meemim: The Startup that is transforming GIS through Augmented Reality
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WeWork’s latest acquisition uses WiFi signals to track people’s movements
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Jobs in Geo – Week 9
At Geoawesomeness, we're working on creating an interactive job portal for companies to submit jobs and for job-seekers to look for jobs in the...
Top offline GPS navigation apps to download before traveling in 2019
If there’s anything all those out-of-town road trips have taught explorers is that you cannot take GPS navigation for granted. Sure, Google Maps works...
Jobs in Geo: Our geospatial jobs so far
At Geoawesomeness, we're working on creating an interactive job portal for companies to submit jobs and for job-seekers to look for jobs in the...
Jobs in Geo – Week 8
We're taking steps towards building a job portal for Jobs in Geo! Each week, we will be posting at least 5 jobs on the...
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HD Maps: Moving Towards a New Safety Standard in Autonomous Driving
Far from being a novelty, car safety has been an important subject since the 19th century. From the invention of the hydraulic brake system...
Geo-Privacy and Personal Location Information
We share our location thousands of times a day, sometimes we explicitly share with individuals, other times we share to specific platforms, and still...
Learn to analyze and map Geospatial Data in R with this online course
We all have read and heard about the “big data” revolution, and how it has completely transformed the way industries operate today. And when...
Your cool app idea for Galileo-enabled phones could win you €100.000
In the little over two years since it first became live, European Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) – Galileo – has come a long...
Jobs in Geo – Week 7
We're taking steps towards building a job portal for Jobs in Geo. Each week, we will be posting at least 5 jobs on the...
How accurate map database can prepare Japan for 40 million tourists?
Last year, a record 31.19 million tourists travelled to Japan. This made 2018 the sixth consecutive year to have registered an all-time high in...
From sideline to center: the potential for OpenStreetMap to seize the curb
Changing with the times, the curb is no longer just the elevated edge along the side of the street. It is now used to...
Meet PlanetWatchers – the startup that provides geoanalytics as a service for natural resource...
For many decades now, Remote sensing and geospatial analytics have been used to monitor natural resources. In fact, natural resource and environmental management are...
NASA’s new 3D map of forests to fill carbon knowledge gap
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Our Geospatial Job Initiative: Jobs in Geo Week 6
At Geoawesomeness, we cover a variety of topics that are considered 'geo'. As technology advances and more companies are using location data each day,...
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Win a free ticket and the chance to pitch your startup at Geospatial World...
Geospatial World Forum 2019 is definitely one of the biggest events of the year with more than 1500 attendees from 500 different organizations in attendance....
Our Geospatial Job Initiative: Jobs in Geo Week 5
At Geoawesomeness, we cover a variety of topics that are considered 'geo'. As technology advances and more companies are using location data each day,...
Want to enrich your maps with 186 million geo-positioned roadside objects?
Because you can. No kidding.
Geoawesome startup Mapillary has just fueled its map features repository with more than 186 million roadside objects, so autonomous vehicles...
Our new geospatial job initiative: Jobs in Geo!
At Geoawesomeness, we cover a variety of topics that are considered 'geo'. As technology advances and more companies are using location data each day,...
Expanding Mapping Capabilities with Deep Learning
Last year I wrote about how computer vision is helping us harness the power of machines to understand the world, and how for updating...
Meet the startup that is on a mission to reach make commodity production sustainable...
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It’s official: TomTom’s Telematics unit going to Bridgestone for $1.03 billion
Location technology specialist, TomTom, has entered into an agreement to sell its telematics business unit to tyre and rubber company Bridgestone for $1.03 billion.
Ever...
Promoting Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Geospatial Industry in 2019
Data linked to location has the potential to change our lives for the better, improve our economy and create jobs. The geography of the...
Esri seeks to woo developers with new, affordable ArcGIS plans
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Why did DuckDuckGo switch to Apple Maps?
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Pokémon GO’s Creator Niantic Scores $245 Million
Niantic Inc, the creator of moble augmented reality (AR) games such as Pokémon GO and Ingress Prime, has raised $245 million in their Series...
India’s commercial drone policy 2019: The good, the bad, the ugly
That India has great commercial potential for drones is no secret. Transporting human organs for emergency medical services, aiding in agricultural irrigation and inspection,...
Mapbox introduces dynamically changing boundaries
The decision of how to name an area and where to draw a boundary on a map has always been subject to controversy, as there...
Ordnance Survey maps to get an upgrade with Mobileye’s location data
After a successful year of pilot projects, the United Kingdom’s national mapping agency, Ordnance Survey, is officially joining forces with Intel’s autonomous driving unit...
Helping farmers move from analog to digital farming with drones and remote sensing
The $5T global agriculture industry still relies on the observations of human scouts to determine crop conditions. This labor-intensive and error-prone method contributes to...
Experts detail what to expect across geoindustries in 2019
2018 was an exciting year for the geospatial industry; Google Maps API pulling the rug from under developers’ feet notwithstanding. The power of crowdsourced...
How Indoor mapping is going to change lives in 2019
Take a moment to think about everything that we’ve come to expect from our experiences outdoors. Our base expectations include things like efficient, intelligent...
Here’s why 2019 is poised to be an exciting year for Geospatial analytics
In the last five years, we’ve witnessed many incredible advances in the geospatial analytics industry. With the ability to launch dozens of small satellites...
2019 Top 100 Geospatial Companies and Startups List
The wait is finally over! Here is the list of the Top 100 Geospatial Companies and Startups in 2019.
2019 Top 100 Geospatial Companies and...
The process behind how the 2019 Top 100 Geospatial Companies list was compiled
Before we take a look at the process, I would like to acknowledge the obvious: Any list is biased/flawed at some level and this...
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Geoawesomeness will be turning 8 this year! Since then, we’ve grown as a community, have had over 80 guest bloggers, interviewed over 25 of the most innovative geospatial startups, totalling to over 2000 blog posts on here! Earlier this...
At Geoawesomeness, we’re working on creating an interactive job portal for companies to submit jobs and for job-seekers to look for jobs in the geospatial industry.
For the past two months so, we’ve been sharing jobs on our LinkedIn and...
Using Google Maps for walking directions is arguably more difficult than following the magical blue dot while driving a vehicle. Though the Google Maps app shows a cone of view indicator to tell you which way you’re facing, it’s...
At Geoawesomeness, we’re working on creating an interactive job portal for companies to submit jobs and for job-seekers to look for jobs in the geospatial industry.
For the past two months so, we’ve been sharing jobs on our LinkedIn and...
Everyone deserves to be recognized and have their rights documented, especially when it comes to the land they live and work on. This statement may sound trivial, but for many people, this is not the reality. In fact, only...