ArcGIS’s Explorer beta is officially available for Android devices.
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Evolution of Mobile Mapping
High-definition mobile mapping is no longer out of reach for small businesses and individuals who want to take advantage of it.
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Your Mobile GIS Ecosystem
Lowell Ballard discusses the concept of branding your mobile “portfolio” to better create that sense of a unified ecosystem to ensure that clients know that they are using one of your applications.
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Your Mobile Portfolio: Make it Your Own
Lowell Ballard, Director of Geospatial Solutions for Timmons Group, discusses the importance of making users feel like a part of your company’s ecosystem by developing a mobile portfolio.
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Free Field Survey Tools
With the immense leaps of cheaper data storage, cellular availability, and awareness toward open source components, the options to create workflows that were traditionally commercial can now be accessed for free. One of these great leaps is with field survey tools. Once upon a time (around five years ago) a field […]
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Using GIS to Identify Milwaukee’s Homeless Population
GIS Cloud has developed a mobile GIS and mapping app that allows for the collection of information about homeless populations in the City of Milwaukee in Wisconsin.
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Mobile and Field GIS
Find options for collecting GIS data in the field using mobile and field devices. The mobile and field product descriptions listed here are provided by the companies that create them. Android GIS Products Mappt Mappt is a new market entrant into the field of tablet based data collection tools which […]
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Disconnected Editing with ArcGIS in the Browser
Matt Sheehan discusses disconnected editing for ArcGIS and the libraries that Web Map Solutions has developed to provide users with disconnected capabilities to any ArcGIS web app in the browser.
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Owen Electric gets ready for NASCAR event with geoOrganizer
By utilizing the latest in iOS technology available to electric utilities, Owen Electric is able to inspect assets from a helicopter and send that information from the air to the office.
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Five GIS and Mapping Apps for iPhone
Mobile devices like the iPhone offer productivity benefits for GIS, especially in the field. We’ve summed up below five highly recommended GIS and mapping applications on the market for your iPhone.
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GeoSocial Interactive Map for Transportation Project Planning
This week a spectacular conference aimed towards transportation professionals is being held in Los Angeles called Rail~Volution. The aim of the annual conference is to promote dialogue about developing communities to promote transit as a critical component of livable cities. Started in 1989 in Portland, Oregon, over 500 attendees will […]
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Mobile Mapping with MapCite
MapPad is MapCite’s mobile reporting app which allows for field mapping and data gathering. MapPad is part of MapCite’s suite of ready-to-go geographic data collection and mapping focused solutions. As mentioned in a previous article reviewing MapCite’s Excel spreadsheet and web mapping offerings, MapCite’s focus is to offer a reasonable […]