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Disruption in the Geospatial Age (Part 2 of 2)

Continuing from disruption in the geospatial age pt 1 where we talked about classic disruption business models and in particular referenced Boundless, Esri and Mapbox. I wanted to highlight another example describing how Planet and DigitalGlobe have been reacting to a highly complex technology & consumer environment.

Disruption in the Geospatial Age (Part 1 of 2)

How grand I am to throw around terms like ‘the geospatial age’ as if I’m some kind of luminary. It sounds wonderful that we might be in some kind of ‘age’, but really, what on Earth does that mean? Well, what I mean is we as a technology community we are closer to geospatial technology […]

Apple Maps API

How Exciting! I’m not sure if this was a deliberate Easter Egg in Apple’s WWDC website, I have a sneaking suspicion it might be, but we’ve just had a glimpse of an Apple Maps web API. Traditionally, Apple Maps have been available only in native iOS apps. It seems that might be about to change. […]

Maptiks Map Analytics Demo

As we all know, a demo is worth at least a thousand words. earlier this week I put together this client side demo to help our clients get the feel of the kind of things we can do with Maptiks. I wanted to share it with all our Sparkgeo friends too. Welcome to the future […]

A Multi Season Trail Map with Mapbox and CartoDB

A trail map is seemingly so simple. But, to create a really ‘good’ trail map we need to consider a few key things: 1) Seasonality – your map needs to tell the story of the adventure in hand. For instance a skiing or showshoeing trail should feel cold and wintery. In this case we needed […]