Esri Silver Business Partner GEO Jobe GIS shares with us their vision for the GEO Powered Cloud, an enterprise deployment platform for the ArcGIS enterprise ecosystem.
Thousands of Geo Professionals Convene in San Diego for Location Technology Event of the year #esriuc
If location technology is your thing then San Diego CA is the place to be, or watch, this week as about 15,000 developers, geo technologists, modelers, technicians, and other geo professionals convene for the annual Esri user conference. The week end saw special pre-conference mini conferences, like the survey summit and 3D Summit and many […]
Gearing up for Another #ESRIUC and 5 GeoGeeky Things for the Developer to do
The countdown is on… I’m scrambling here to prepare for a busy week at the annual Esri user conference in San Diego. I’m always interested in some of the fun developer meets and events that are planned during UC week – these are always pretty geeky, very interesting, and if lucky there’s usually some beer […]
Dev tip – How to Register an App with Facebook
So, you’ve been thinking about creating an app to run on facebook, so now what? Well, to begin you can take advantage of this great read from fbombmedia… enjoy! To make sure your app reaches its full potential, you need to take advantage of the features and promotional opportunities presented by popular social media platforms […]
DevTip – Open Data Means Opportunity: The Food Truck App Example
So, you wanna grab a bite to eat. Chances are good that if you live in or near a cool, hipster filled city that a food truck may be close by. Think opportunity! I recently stumbled onto a cool mobile food truck app for my city (Victoria, BC) and there’s no reason why you can’t […]
opportunity knocks – Esri Climate Resilience App Challenge
The Esri Climate Resilience App Challenge 2014 is now open worldwide to developers of all types (government, technology firms, academic institutions, not for profits, startups, and individuals). This contest challenges all developers to create an app using the Esri ArcGIS Platform to help communities, see, understand, and prepare for climate risks. Esri will provide up to three […]
Training Tip – Create an Interactive Map with jQuery (Video)
jQuery is a popular technology tool with the map geeks these days. Here’s a training resource that might help you to get up and running with jQuery – enjoy! In Create an Interactive Map with jQuery, Chris Converse shows how to design and create a rich interactive map for a web site, working in a coding […]
OS Ride iOS app maps the first three stages of the Tour de France
Seems the UK Ordnance Survey is in the mobile app making business as the UK data provider for teh Government has released OS Ride, a mobile app for iOS featuring routes for the Tour de France. OS Ride features detailed routes of the first three stages of the Tour de France, which comes to Great […]
Google i/o 2014 – Save the Date, June 25-26 – Registration opens April 8
This from Google… We just launched the Google I/O 2014 website at http://www.google.com/io. Play with the experiment, get a preview of this year’s conference, and find out more details about registration. Registration to begin April 8 with attendees selected randomly A month ago, we mentioned that this year’s registration process would be different. You won’t […]
Video – Google Project Tango – A smartphone that can map its surroundings in 3D
So, you may have heard about Google’s foray into the smartphone market and Project Tango. What is Tango exactly?? From Google… Our current prototype is a 5” phone containing customized hardware and software designed to track the full 3D motion of the device, while simultaneously creating a map of the environment. These sensors allow the […]
