Strava, a GPS running and biking application, recently released a detailed global heat map of popular routes across the globe. The map contains over 160 million activities with 375,000,000,000 data points.
March, 2015
GIS Software
Solving Field GIS Wireless Connectivity Issues with Web Apps
Wireless connectivity issues can be costly in terms of time, expense and customer satisfaction. Slow response times, and dropped connections can be impossibly frustrating. A primary challenge for field staff are weak cell signals. That can be due to distance from the cell sites, working indoors or blocked cellular signals […]
GIS Data
Landsat 8 Satellite Imagery Available for Free Via Amazon Web Services
Amazon recently announced the availability of 85,000 Landsat 8 scenes through Amazon Web Services (AWS): Landsat on AWS. The Landsat scenes have been made available via the landsat-pds bucket in the Amazon S3 US West (Oregon) region. The announcement came via a blog post on Amazon: As we said in December, we hope to accelerate […]
Maps and Cartography
The Sound of Silence: A Noise Map of the U.S.
A map from the NPS displays the noisiest as well as the quietest places in the United States.
GIS Learning
Learn Web GIS, Step by Step
Esri has released a new workbook for GIS students entitled, Getting to Know Web GIS. This workbook uses Esri’s ArcGIS platform including ArcGIS Online, Portal for ArcGIS, Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS, web app templates, and ArcGIS API for JavaScript in order to teach students how to create web GIS applications. The book […]
Spatial Analysis
Using Satellite Imagery to Track the Ocean’s Acidity
The Earth’s oceans play a vital role in the health of the planet. Ocean dynamics impact weather patterns, it provides food and recreational opportunities, and industry related to the ocean generates significant revenue. The ocean also serves a critical function in regards to easing global warming, and scientists are now […]
GIS Data
Maps Serve to Monitor Global Agriculture
As the world’s population grows, the amount of land available for farming is becoming a major concern. Increasing competition for land is springing up among growers, developers, and many others. This makes it critical to determine how much total land is available for farming across the globe but that completing […]
GIS Industry
How Spatial Big Data Underpins Smart Cities
Underpinning any smart city program is trusted geospatial information; one single source of reliable, location-specific data.
Spatial Analysis
Using a Heat Map to Show the Level of Happiness by Province in Turkey
Dogus Guler is a graduate student in Geomatics Engineering at Istanbul Technical University. His main interest area is Geographical Information Systems and he shares the analysis of happiness rates across Turkey. This heat map was produced with happiness research data at the provincial level conducted for the first time in Turkey […]
GIS Software
Cartoview Enterprise GeoSpatial Application Platform
Adam Joseph, the Marketing Manager at Cartologic, provides an introduction to Cartoview. Cartoview is an open source GeoSpatial web framework for managing and deploying geospatial and business Applications; the architecture of Cartoview makes it easy to efficiently develop and maintain and deploy GIS enterprise applications. Using Cartoview you can author your map […]