A short tale about how I wanted to buy satellite imagery and how difficult...
I have spent over a decade in the geospatial industry and thus know a lot about how things work here but I was shocked...
Using Location Data To Tackle The Coronavirus Pandemic
With over a third of the world's population in some form of lockdown and more than half a million people infected by Coronavirus, Governments...
Trough of Disillusionment or Slope of Enlightenment: Where is drone industry headed?
Since 1995, global research and advisory firm Gartner, Inc has been releasing the ‘hype cycle’, a branded graphical representation identifying the current state of...
5 key challenges of doing geospatial business in India
India is the world’s third-largest economy based on purchasing power parity. But when you look at the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Index, the...
The evolution of indoor navigation technologies
All big companies such as manufacturers, retailers, and commercial property owners have looked for sophisticated indoor positioning technology for recent decades. They were focusing...
How the tragic fire at Notre Dame will accelerate the adoption of laser scanning...
On April 15th, 2019 the tragic fire at Notre Dame in Paris caused devastating damage to the famous 856-year-old cathedral. It's a terrible loss...
AR in the classroom – A device is born
Firstly, let me introduce myself – I’m Melanie Collins, Head of Geography at a school for girls in the South East of England. I’ve...
India can now destroy live satellites, but what about space debris?
Using a live satellite in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) as target practice, India successfully tested an anti-satellite weapon, or A-SAT, today. This show of...
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...
Esri and Winning
How much winning is enough? Have you been winning so much that you’re tired of winning now?
I ask because last month I gave a...
Missed out on attending FOSS4G 2018? Here’s an overview of what happened
As a longstanding industry commentator, I have the privilege of being invited regularly to provide my views on major geospatial events. So when I was...
What would happen if GPS failed?
The navigation apps we carry around in our smartphones may have made getting lost in foreign lands a distant memory, but our dependency on...
The Road to Safer Transport Infrastructure – How Collaborative Mapping Helps
As I was listening to the radio this morning I was saddened to hear that yet another cyclist had been killed on Australian roads....
Mapping the maps of 2018: Industry insiders share their vision
As GIS becomes all-pervasive with millions across the world using maps every day, the year ahead looks super exciting for the geospatial industry. While...
A Vision for Google Earth
Geoawesomeness recently published a blog outlining a major new development for Google Earth for Chrome i.e. Google Earth as a social networking platform. I’m...