A new press release states, “Boundless, the leader in open and scalable GIS, today introduced Boundless Offline Tile ServerTM, a lightweight, portable, purpose-built map tile server that provides detailed global basemaps on demand while offline. With this announcement, Boundless continues to demonstrate its leadership in innovative GIS solutions and fulfills an important requirement in the […]
Crowdsourcing App Findyr Merges with Analytics and Machine Learning Experts Leviathan
by Angela Guess According to a recent press release, “Findyr, the global platform for crowdsourcing of hyper local, street-level data and insights has today announced its merger with Leviathan, the big data analytics platform specializing in analysis of cloud ingested big data with leading machine learning models. The merger, which will continue to operate as […]
Boundless Enables Real-Time Mobile Data Collection with Boundless Anywhere
by Angela Guess According to a recent press release, “Boundless, the leader in open GIS, today introduced Boundless Anywhere™, a new application for enterprises needing to collect and distribute location information from handheld devices and tablets. With Boundless Anywhere, organizations can collect data in the field and store it instantly in a database. Collected data […]
Radiant Solutions is Transforming Global Mapping with Unique Geospatial Information
by Angela Guess According to a recent press release, “Radiant Solutions, the newly formed geospatial services business unit of Maxar Technologies (formerly MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd.) today announced its strategy for combining its legacy businesses to create a new leader in the geospatial industry. Radiant Solutions will deliver unique capabilities to transform global mapping […]
Qlik Delivers Advanced GeoAnalytic Offerings with Acquisition of Idevio
by Angela Guess According to a new press release, “Qlik®, a leader in visual analytics, today announced it has acquired Idevio, a provider of geographical-related software and services and a Sweden-based Qlik partner. This acquisition not only extends Qlik’s current mapping capabilities, but also moves its offerings beyond visualization with support for a broad range […]
Bringing Together GIS and the Internet of Everything
by Angela Guess Christopher Thomas recently wrote in GovTech, “The Internet of Things (IoT) sounds too small to me. The Internet of Everything (IoE) better describes what it really is. Almost everything with a microprocessor is online, so IoE is just a better fit. The IoT is a network that allows sensors and Web-enabled devices […]
Geospatial Data, Hadoop, and Spark
by Angela Guess Jack Vaughan recently wrote in Search Data Management, “As people accumulate big data and then look to do something useful with it, one of the first things they do is put it on a map. It’s a simple first step, but it can be a challenging one. We asked Mansour Raad to […]
DataArt Announces ORANGE – the Missing Piece in Nutrition Tracking
DataArt, a leading custom software development company that builds advanced solutions for select industries, today announced the first results of DataArt ORANGE, a series of research and development projects that aim to automate the tracking of users’ nutrition habits.
Driving New Revenue with Geospatial Data
Mark van Rijmenam of Big Data Startups recently wrote, “Geospatial data is data that identifies a geographic location on Earth, such as natural or constructed features, oceans, and more.”
NASA Turns to Charles River Analytics to Detect Volcanic Eruptions, Storms
Sara Castellanos of Biz Journals reports, “Charles River Analytics on Thursday announced a contract to develop technology for NASA that detects volcanic eruptions, storms and algae blooms from satellite imagery.”