This crowdsourcing app uses heatmaps to predict coronavirus outbreaks
A new anti-corona app, ‘STOP Corona!’ is inviting people from all across the world to report their medical symptoms online in order to create...
After Google Maps, urban mobility app Moovit is offering AR-based navigation
After Google Maps released augmented reality-powered walking directions to rave reviews last year, another navigation player is ready to display digital directions on top...
Top offline GPS navigation apps to download before your next road-trip
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...
How TomTom might just help me buy my first electric car
You know the nagging feeling you get when the battery icon on your smartphone turns red and you are nowhere near a power source?...
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...
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...
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...
Inpixon builds indoor mapping muscle by scooping up Jibestream
Indoor mapping and location technology provider Jibestream – one of Geoawesomeness’ 2019 Top Geospatial Companies and Startups – is being acquired by indoor positioning...
How Indoor Positioning is helping transform industries in 2019
The indoor positioning market reached $6.92 billion in 2017, and is estimated to grow to $23.6 billion by 2023 at a CAGR of 27.9%...
What3Words Mobile App Review
Until recently, I have only known about What3Words. I’ve read blog posts about it, seen the TED talk by their CEO, and have seen...
What can SIM cards tell us about the tourism industry?
A lot, as it turns out.
Most of us have our phones in our pockets (or hands) most of the time. When we walk, when...
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...
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...
Meet Beeline – the startup that is reinventing the compass for the digital age...
Thanks to GPS/GNSS, we are all habituated to using our smartphones to navigate from A to B. When you are a pedestrian this approach...
Pokémon Go players will soon get to nominate their own PokéStops
Location-based game Pokémon Go, which released to meteoric success two years ago, has refused to show any signs of slowing down. A recent report...