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Geospatial jobs of the week – Planet, Foursquare, Descartes Labs, and what3words 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 using the online form for us to review and include...
5 key challenges of doing geospatial business in India
India is the world’s third-largest economy based on purchasing power parity. But when you look at the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Index, the country ranks a dismal 58 out of 140 countries. Clearly,...
The Future of GIS
Everyone who works in geographic information science understands the value of knowing precisely where you’re headed. But the future of GIS presents endless possibilities through innovative technology and approaches. Geospatial methods have already brought...
Make 1:25,000 maps, 1-meter satellite imagery freely available: Indian geospatial thinktank
India’s collection and use of geospatial data have increased exponentially in the last few years. With the central government’s push toward smart cities and massive infrastructure development taking place across the nation, various government...
Open platform India Observatory aims to support sustainable development in India
India’s village communities, policymakers, academicians and researchers can now sift through more than 1,600 layers of location-specific data to make informed decisions about natural...
Best Cyber Monday 2019 deals on Amazon for GPS devices, wearables
If you are a geogeek searching for a Cyber Monday 2019 discount on GPS gadgets, look no further. We spotted some drool-worthy price drops...
CARTO boosts public geospatial data with Google BigQuery
Gathering the right data is perhaps one of the biggest challenges that Data Scientists face today. Not only are there a wide variety of...
Follow these awesome map tips for a stress-free Thanksgiving
Remember this infamous aerial image from 2016 showing the bumper-to-bumper holiday traffic on a Los Angeles freeway two days before Thanksgiving? That year, almost...
Contest alert: Europe continues tradition of naming Galileo satellites after children
Did you know all Galileo navigation satellites are named after schoolchildren who won an EU-wide drawing competition back in 2011?
2011 was the year when...
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Looking to create custom map stories and presentations? Try Google Earth!
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Uber CPO, the exec Uber snagged from Google Maps, has resigned
After a lackluster Wall Street debut forced Uber’s chief operating officer and chief marketing officer to step down this June, another senior executive at...
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...
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...
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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,...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
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
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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
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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...
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The latest high-res imagery at your fingertips
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Geospatial jobs of the week – MongoDB, Geophy, Towson University, and Hexagon PI are...
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India is the world’s third-largest economy based on purchasing power parity. But when you look at the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Index, the country ranks a dismal 58 out of 140 countries. Clearly, there is greater potential waiting...
Everyone who works in geographic information science understands the value of knowing precisely where you’re headed. But the future of GIS presents endless possibilities through innovative technology and approaches. Geospatial methods have already brought dramatic transformation to data collection...
India’s collection and use of geospatial data have increased exponentially in the last few years. With the central government’s push toward smart cities and massive infrastructure development taking place across the nation, various government organizations are leveraging remotely-sensed, location-specific...
India’s village communities, policymakers, academicians and researchers can now sift through more than 1,600 layers of location-specific data to make informed decisions about natural resource management and rural development. The Foundation for Ecological Security (FES), an NGO working on...