Thinking of ditching Google Maps? Consider these six points first

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…

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Make apps faster with CARTO’s front-end design library

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…

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Don’t pay twice for your Google Maps

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…

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How to avoid Google Maps Platform bill shock

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…

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First partner of FrontierSI

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…

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Will your Google Maps application stop working?

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…

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Event series: CARTO data streams

Event series: CARTO data streams

Everyone knows that data is required to make decisions, but sourcing and making sense of it can be challenging. Using a map with constantly updated data can make communicating insights easier and more reliable. In May and June, NGIS is hosting a series of events in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth to show how you can…

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CARTO Locations conference wrap up

CARTO Locations conference wrap up

The future of sophisticated and beautiful web maps is looking rosy following the CARTO Locations conference in Madrid. NGIS sent two people – Executive Director Richard Bentley and Product Lead Adam Mullett – to the conference on April 19-20 where Location Intelligence platform creators CARTO showed off their road map and their product updates. The…

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How the Google Maps Platform will be structured

How the Google Maps Platform will be structured

Google Maps API has rebranded as the Google Maps Platform. The platform now aligns with Google’s Cloud Platform in the billing and application console structure. As part of their rebranding, Google Maps Platform have regrouped the APIs under three parts: Maps, Routing and Places. In the past, APIs were referred to individually or as part…

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Automatic discounting on Google Maps Platform Premium Plan

Automatic discounting on Google Maps Platform Premium Plan

A new discounting system is being introduced to Google Maps this year that will make it easier to get started with projects and scale them up. Under the previous version of the Google Maps API Premium Plan, customers were required to provide what they thought were the right estimates for usage for the coming year…

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