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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
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
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
Google Maps have restructured how API requests can be purchased, making it simpler than ever before to create custom business solutions using Google Maps. The Google Maps Platform breaks the APIs down into three components: Maps, Routing and Places. These three mapping components make it simpler than ever for developers to control map credit usage.
Location intelligence applications such as CARTO perform iterative, spatial analysis. CARTO optimises everyday strategic decision making and solves complex business problems on an interactive map. CARTO provides an easy to use, drag and drop interface to easily identify insights from large amounts of data. These insights can be rapidly deployed into applications and are easily customisable. NGIS partnered with CARTO to
Understanding the productivity of your sales regions, deciding where to focus on service improvement or working out which of your shops is covering too much ground on their own is easy when you see it as a picture. Maps help you establish relationships in your data that you would only see when presented as
Daily satellite imagery of the whole globe is now available to NGIS customers through our new technology partner, Planet. NGIS Australia and Planet have established a new partnership, leveraging Planet’s extensive global daily imagery for NGIS’ developers and specialist teams. Planet can provide the capabilities and content for NGIS to build new solutions for a range of industries, as well as
Using Google travel time data, the New South Wales government have implemented a motorway messaging system that empowers motorists with the information they need to make decisions on the road. Whether to leave the motorway and take the back streets to avoid a traffic jam, or just know how long you will be on your
Mapping data in your business has historically been the domain of GIS experts and has relied on complex software that takes time to learn. Strong business cases were needed to justify building applications to display data. Enter Carto: one of the biggest disruptions to the business intelligence industry yet. Carto is a cloud based GIS system for
Google Maps Gold support is a higher level of support particularly useful for clients who need peace of mind. You have applications which rely on Google Maps and want to be able to contact Google support at any time, including the weekends. Let’s review the difference between Silver and Gold. If you are on a premium
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