I don’t understand your GIS web site, and product offering!
Don’t you hate that. Thinking: I don’t understand your GIS web site, and product offering! It might look nice, be very professional. But leaves you no wiser as to the product or services offered than...
View ArticleOffline Mobile Editing from Map or Geoform
We have put together below a demo showing work we are doing providing online offline mobile editing from map or geoform. Offline Mobile Editing from Map or Geoform There are two perspectives possible...
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Does conformity allow for GIS creativity?
Yikes, now that is a question: does conformity allow for GIS creativity? But it is worth pondering. We encourage our children to think for themselves, to be creative, be individual thinkers. And yet...
View ArticleCustom Offline Mobile Editing for ArcGIS
Continuing our series of videos showing custom offline mobile editing for ArcGIS. We have developed a framework which allows us to build very flexible mobile apps for clients providing offline GIS...
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Building Offline ArcGIS Apps with a Mobile Framework
When you read a blog entitled ‘Building Offline ArcGIS apps with a Mobile Framework’, I’m thinking the first question which comes to mind is: What is a mobile framework? In the crudest terms a mobile...
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Mobile GIS Planning Guide
We’ve just released a new mobile GIS planning guide. This free eBook will walk you through each of the key areas which need consideration when moving forward with a mobile GIS project. Web versus...
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The GIS Industry is Splitting?
I’m just back from presenting at the GeCo in the Rockies Conference. My first time in Grand Junction. A sleepy town surrounded by amazing scenery, with the beautiful Colorado River on its doorstep....
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Is GIS splitting? … what the experts think
I posed the question in a recent blog post: Is GIS splitting? Are we now looking at a split between traditional GIS and new GIS? By new GIS I did not mean an offshoot like neogeography. I meant the...
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What do we mean by GIS Integration?
In previous blog posts we’ve discussed the split in GIS. Not so much a split in the core technology, but in the users served and thus solutions provided. Traditional GIS will continue to support GIS...
View ArticleStrong Response to Podcast on Is GIS Splitting?
GIS faces huge challenges. Far greater than it faced in the 90′s with the explosion of the Internet. And the opportunities for those who solve these challenges are unprecedented. GIS is moving from...
View ArticleSplitting, Expanding, Maturing, Polarizing …. GIS is Changing
Splitting, bifurcating, expanding, maturing, polarizing …. GIS is changing. We are living through a time of transformation in our industry. The advent of cloud and mobile technology has put much focus...
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Web ArcGIS Apps are Amazing
An odd title for a blog post: Web ArcGIS apps are amazing. Why would we make such a profound statement? We still see mobile and web apps treated separately. “Mobile enable your web page” we hear. Have...
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The New Future of ArcGIS Web Applications
The New Future of ArcGIS Web Applications is all about Javascript Javascript is an open standard scripting language. With a truly global developer base, it is today arguably the most popular language...
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Location Strategy .. Huh?
The geotechnology industry has always used interesting terminology …. geospatial, GIS, geomatics, Géomatique. As we discussed in a recent blog post called GIS is Changing, we seem to have have...
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Taking the gobbledegook out of Location Analytics
Location analytics is much discussed in GIS circles. We felt taking the gobbledegook out of location analytics was long overdue. Many organizations new to GIS are still grasping at the basic GIS...
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2015 GIS Predictions
Happy New Year. Like many other we have been mulling over our 2015 GIS predictions. But before we jump in let’s review 2014. GIS in 2014 We saw GIS in 2014 as a year of advancement and self...
View ArticleEmerging GIS may not be what you think!
In this post I am going to return some of the discussions we started last year with our “Is GIS Splitting” post. The general consensus from these conversations was that we are seeing a polarization of...
View ArticleIs Google Getting out of the Mapping Game?
Two recent announcements caught my attention: “The Google Earth API has been deprecated as of December 12th, 2014. The API will continue to work on supported browsers until December 12th, 2015, and...
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Google and Esri Surprise
So there I was sitting comfortably happily writing a blog post post entitled Enabling Jack Dangermond’s GIS Vision commenting on Jacks excellent ArcNews lead article when bam the following stops me...
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Google Esri and the Huge GeoSpatial for Business Opportunities
Announcements this week from Google and Esri surprised everybody. Esri have now posted a ‘Common Questions’ web page providing answers around the transition from Google Earth Enterprise and Google...
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