The Driving Force Behind Shared Economy
Shared economy businesses are heavily dependent on location analytics and mapping services, though the degree of importance depends on how hyperlocal a business is.
Geospatial Investment Comes in Many Forms
For many years, there has been an underground fighting of factions between the open source and proprietary GIS providers. If you run an Esri system, you are told that you are wasting money and you can do it all free…
Amazon Location Service — Today and Tomorrow
AWS’ entry into the location services space is likely to increase competitiveness within the market, and lead to improvement in data quality and service.
Flying Concerns
Drones, Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) have been traditionally used by the Armed Forces for military operations. The concept of drones…
Reinvention of GEO-BIM Companies in AEC Sector
Resilient business models, definite execution plans and strategic product lineups have enabled geospatial and BIM technology companies in the AEC sector to not only weather…
Digital Partnering for Digital Twinning
A key takeaway of the Year in Infrastructure 2020 Conference is the expanding partnership between Microsoft and Bentley Systems, a harbinger of things to come for AEC industries…
COVID Impact on 5G Rollout and How It Affects Geospatial Industry
While COVID-19 has had an undeniable impact on 5G rollout – delayed and yet fast-forwarded its future adoption — the geospatial industry is waiting for the opportunities the technology will unleash…
Subscription-based Environments in AEC
Have universally adopted subscription models for software, Cloud processing, and collaboration solutions evolved in a manner that best serves AEC?…
CATCH 2020: Recovery Path for Geospatial Industry
The year 2020 has a lot more to offer for the geospatial industry, especially since it is one of the enabling pillars of the Fourth Industrial Revolution…
Vricon Under its Belt, Maxar All Set to Create Living Reference of the Planet
For a long time now, Maxar has been nurturing the dream of creating a highly accurate global representation of the Earth. With the complete acquisition of Vricon and all-new 3D capabilities, that dream…