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...
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...
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...
Unavoidable location-aware digital ads on car windows: Yay or Nay?
You cannot skip them. You cannot close them. You cannot avoid them. There’s simply no escaping a digital advertisement that is playing on the...
Location awareness without GPS or (indoor) maps? No problem! Navisens thinks it has the...
It's not often that you come across a geo-startup that has its roots in the PhD thesis of its founder, let alone be mentioned...
This new feature in GIS Cloud app lets you collect lines & polygons in...
Last week GIS Cloud launched a new feature for their Mobile Data Collection app, a simple solution for real-time field location and attribute data...
Finally! iOS 12 will bring Google Maps, Waze to Apple CarPlay
Ever since Apple launched CarPlay in 2014, the tech giant has tried to tie down its users in a monogamous relationship with Apple Maps....
Will you help Pokémon Go makers create AR maps of Earth?
The potential of augmented reality (AR) is not lost on Niantic, especially after the runaway success of Pokémon Go. Now, as the game maker...
Google will add our mental maps as a layer to Google Maps
How do we navigate from A to B without GPS? How did we do it in the pre-GPS era? 15 years ago to avoid...
Get ready to see more local ads on your Waze app
You must have chanced upon branded pins from big brands like McDonald’s or Adidas on Waze already, but get ready to see your neighborhood...
Your next favorite AR game will be built on Google Maps
Apart from London, no Grand Theft Auto game is set in a real-world location. But that hasn’t stopped us from wishing for a chance...