What to expect after Google Cloud Next 19′

What to expect after Google Cloud Next 19′

NGIS’ Richard Greene attended Google Cloud Next 19’ last week in San Francisco. The conference convenes Google’s international network of partners, developers and anyone passionate about an accessible, scalable, socially responsible cloud to discuss expected product developments, news and releases. Richard reflects on his week at the conference:  Day one  I arrived in San Francisco…

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Using location intelligence to reach your target audience

Using location intelligence to reach your target audience

Organisations have become increasingly location driven in the way they market to consumers, clients and the community.  These days, it isn’t uncommon for location services to be enabled on mobile phones so that we can use apps to get us from point A to point B.  Similarly, we use this setting to locate our phones…

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Google’s upgrade to Places Mobile SDK for Android and iOS

Google’s upgrade to Places Mobile SDK for Android and iOS

Places, the Google API providing users with the information they need to explore the world around them, is getting an upgrade for Android and iOS. The announced changes to Places SDK are in line with other mapping APIs available on the Google Maps Platform. The new SDK has additional features including unlimited requests per day,…

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SSSI Map-a-thon attendees map areas destroyed by Cyclone Gaja

SSSI Map-a-thon attendees map areas destroyed by Cyclone Gaja

The second SSSI WA Map-a-thon, sponsored by NGIS, saw SSSI members using their mapping knowledge and skills for good. The participants digitised features such as roads and infrastructure in countries experiencing humanitarian crises, that have not been mapped before. Mappers focused their efforts on the southern part of India which is recovering from the destruction…

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What is the difference between ArcMap and ArcGIS Pro?

What is the difference between ArcMap and ArcGIS Pro?

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Analyse data quickly with BigQuery Geo Viz

Analyse data quickly with BigQuery Geo Viz

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Open source conference inspires mapping enthusiasts

Open source conference inspires mapping enthusiasts

Open source spatial technology aficionado’s have recently enjoyed an energising and enlightening conference in Melbourne at FOSS4G SotM Oceania 2018. Standing for “Free and Open Source Software For Good, State of the Map”, the conference gathered hundreds of mapping enthusiasts who all came with the goal of learning and sharing information about how they use…

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Google Maps in apps isn’t free anymore

Google Maps in apps isn’t free anymore

If you’ve built an app in the past for Android or iOS you would have benefitted from Google’s generous usage limits for mobile, most of which were unlimited for Maps API. Under Google Maps Platform, map loads through the Mobile SDK are still free, but all the other services you might rely on are on…

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Opening up your data with Apigee

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…

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Where Business Intelligence ends, Location Intelligence begins

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…

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