Phoenix landscaping company conducts plant density study to optimize water consumption, tries mobile mapping to collect ‘Big Data’ quickly
USGS Tech Tip – Why is Landsat important and the Landsat Missions Timeline
Landsat has the optimal ground resolution and spectral bands to efficiently track land use and to document land change due to climate change, urbanization, drought, wildfire, biomass changes (carbon assessments), and a host of other natural and human-caused changes. Moreover, the continuous archive reaching back to 1972 provides essential land change data and trending information […]
Summaries From The Esri International Developer Summit #DevSummit
GISi was fortunate to send 10 our of employees to the Esri Interntaionl Developer Summit in Palm Springs, CA this week and they produced a recap each day of the sessions and plenary they attended. Each recap is broken down from Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3 with highlights and then a more in […]
New Department of Education Profile Viewer: Mapping Our Nation’s School District Demographics
Blue Raster and partner, Sanametrix, are pleased to present the Demographic Profile Viewer. This is the newest addition to the National Center for Education Statistics’ (NCES) School District Demographics System (SDDS). It provides: Policymakers, education professionals, and the public a unique way to better understand patterns in our school systems. Visualization of key demographic data […]
BlueRaster – Mapping The Adoption of Digital Media
This via the BlueRaster blog… The Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) at the National Endowment for Democracy partnered with Blue Raster to develop an interactive map featuring 10 digital media indicatorsfrom Open Society Foundations‘ Mapping Digital Media project. The project examines the global opportunities and risks created by the transition from traditional to digital […]
GIS Goes Mainstream – The Uberweather Example
Via James Swansburg and the Uberweather blog…
Open Data & Online GIS Publication Platforms Empower Individuals Mapping Hurricane Sandy
As Hurricane Sandy began bearing down on the eastern seaboard of the U.S this weekend the National Hurricane Center were busy making updates to their predictions for the hurricanes path and releasing that data via their website as static map images and shapefiles. As expected, the hurricane data was quickly being downloaded by the […]
CASE STUDY: Providing Affordable GIS Services to Rural Local Governments
Whether you are a small or large municipality; The LIU has always been about inspiring policymakers with the opportunities for data and analytics to transform public service. The technology is present and affordable to implement a GIS system that is smart, flexible, scalable, and mobile. The LIU technology is reducing paperwork, connecting departments, speeding up […]
Feature – Empower the Non-GIS User with Advance Geospatial Functionality
For far too long, the utility of geospatial solutions has been locked in the domain of professionals who are highly trained in GIS. While these experts play a major role in incorporating geospatial data for decision-making within the enterprise, non-GIS users are often completely disconnected from the overall geospatial lifecycle of information. As many of […]
Beyond Apple and Google a number of companies are hoping to find success with new mapping technology
MIT Technology Review: Google, Apple, UpNext Maps… There’s a Map for That—Several, Actually – Beyond Apple and Google, a number of companies are hoping to find success with new mapping technology.