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Opening up your data with Apigee
If you could easily control access to data you own and provide an streamlined way to use it, you could monetise it or make it more available to others. Apigee was one of the most exciting things we saw at the Google Cloud Summit 2018 in Sydney and effectively it allows you to make an…
Where Business Intelligence ends, Location Intelligence begins
Location intelligence (LI) – which helps you get insight from location data – blurs the line between complex spatial analysis and traditional business intelligence (BI) by augmenting business data with spatial data. LI takes all available data and creates actionable insights through complex visualisation and spatial analysis. As the number of smart devices and connected…
Thinking of ditching Google Maps? Consider these six points first
Google Maps Platform is changing the way that the Maps APIs are paid for, which might impact your business model. Clients on the legacy Premium Plan in some cases will find they are now paying less than before and in most cases there will be little difference in price. For users of the deprecated Standard…
Make apps faster with CARTO’s front-end design library
Location Intelligence platform creators CARTO have announced the launch of Airship, a front end design library for map applications. Airship provides developers with pre-built code snippets to create customisable and beautifully designed user interfaces. It allows for an intuitive experience for both developers and the end users. Airship is one of the tools CARTO released…
Data streams: how they are helping businesses make decisions with maps
It is now easier to solve the challenges around market analysis, store placement, sales management and other common business problems with the introduction of new data into the CARTO Data Observatory. CARTO’s new data streams products were presented by their head of Asia Pacific Fernando Carrasco at a series of NGIS events around Australia at…
Refugee crisis management eased after successful mapathon
Map building volunteers have helped the UNHCR and their partners manage an escalating refugee crisis in Uganda. NGIS sponsored the latest map-a-thon held by the Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute(SSSI). On April 28, an enthusiastic group of 25 mappers commenced a four hour challenge to digitise buildings and sanitation facilities in Uganda. An escalation in…
Don’t pay twice for your Google Maps
If you’re a Premium Plan customer whose licence expires after June 11, 2018 there is a risk you will be paying twice for the same service if your licence key is not correctly implemented in your code. For some customers there will be a period of up to 15 months where the old Google Maps…
How to avoid Google Maps Platform bill shock
Under the new Google Maps Platform pricing model there will be various changes to the way you are billed compared to the current Google Maps API Premium Plan. Some applications that previously required a licence will be free going forward, but others that enjoyed a daily bucket of free credits will be more expensive. Knowing…
First partner of FrontierSI
NGIS is proud to announce it is the first private organisation to partner with the newly formed FrontierSI. FrontierSI is a research and development centre bringing together government agencies, businesses and educational institutions to provide spatial information. FrontierSI is the successor entity of the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information (CRCSI) and will officially launch…
Will your Google Maps application stop working?
The new Google Maps Platform is going to cause many applications that were coded before 2017 to stop functioning as Google tighten its rules about responding to unkeyed requests to the API. Changes to Google Maps are happening between June 11 and August 11, 2018 that will see keyless requests to the APIs start to…
