Check out the first edition of the book series absolutely free. These books are being released here as drafts, free to read, but are also being edited, produced, and published through O'Reilly...
I want to create a Wedge in SQL server without using any mapping tool like ArcMap, which will be visualized (only) in ArcGIS. Unfortunately, ST_Geometry is not supported in SQL Server and CircularString is not supported in ArcGIS.
I assumed to create a buffer around a point but my actual...
Yang Zhang, associate professor, and Matthew W. McBroom, professor, with Stephen F. Austin State University, provide a brief systematic introduction to KML (Keyhole Markup Language) files.
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Google has acquired Urban Engines, location-based analytics*start-up that aims to help cities and companies better understand urban mobility.
The company has been founded in 2014 by a bunch of ex-googlers, with investors including*Google Ventures and Eric Schmidt, so at the end the acquisition...
This week we go extreme. We’ve got for you 10 questions about the world’s biggest, tallest, deepest, and smallest*one-of-a-kind places. Remember to share your score with the world. If you liked that one, here are all our other quizzes.
The post #GeoawesomeQuiz – World’s Biggest, Tallest...
Robbi Bishop-Taylor – PhD student of Geospatial Science*at the University of New South Wales, created amazing map that visualizes*almost 500,000 dirt tracks, roads and highways in Australia.
He created the map using QGIS and*freely available topographic mapping datasets from Geoscience...
The new iOS 10 has been released this week. Of course for us the most interesting part is the update to Apple Maps. Is it any better than the previous version? Check out our detailed step by step comparison.
Ok. Let’s start from the beginning. I’ve opened the Apple Maps app and searched for...
The Self-Driving Car industry is moving fast, sometimes too fast to keep track of the all the updates. Last week alone,*Tesla announced the launch of AutoPilot 8.0, Uber started picking up customers with their self-driving car in Pittsburgh and Comma ai,*the startup that plans to turn any car...
273,588.430 – that is the exact number of kilometres Google’s fleet of 58 cars clocked for their Self-Driving Car project in August this year (Google report)! Although Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are so advanced today that we can teach our computers to do amazing things, the...
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For all those who are interested in the GIS, there is approaching a very big event coming to Hamburg this year – Intergeo*2016. It is the world’s leading trade fair and conference for geodesy, geoinformation and land management. This year it will take place from October 11 – 13 in Hamburg.The...