Simple no-code mapping tools for teams
We live in a world where location and maps have become a core component to an organisations value offering. Uber’s entire operation is based on the strength of its mapping capability for their customers who need to get a ride, Domino’s use maps to show their customers exactly where their pizza is on the delivery
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
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
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,
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
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
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
