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Google Deepmind and the World Resources Institute have released ForTy, a global map that classifies forests and other land into six categories, including primary forest, plantations, and tree crops. The map could help track deforestation under EU rul...
Project Deliverables: 5-Minute Video Showcase · Interactive Colab Notebook...
What a GIS is, and the five building blocks inside every one...
The PostGIS Team is pleased to release PostGIS 3.7.0!
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GIS used to be a tool you needed a degree to use. On the Project Flux Podcast, GIS Cloud co-founder and CEO Dino Ravnic explains why AI is the final step in opening it up, and why the line between what AI does and what the GIS does matters more than ...
IP geolocation on Vercel now resolves visitor locations with finer network granularity, delivering city-level data for nearly all requests and postal-code data for 90% of traffic....
By Aneta Szostak-Silva, Co-Founder and Geospatial Engineer at FullWave Geoconsulting, Portugal. Aneta has contributed to national and regional LiDAR programs worldwide, with experience spanning production, quality assurance, and technical advisory. H...
Early this month, we moved every Static Maps request to a new rendering system. The API didn't change, so you don't need to update anything on your side....
melanpan.nl picked up a used Intellian i4 marine satellite dish on Marktplaats for about €200, against a new price near €4000. The dish uses stepper motors, a quad LNB, and an indoor Antenna Control Unit with Ethernet, WiFi and RS-232....
You might wonder what a map in your colors really changes. Here are three examples, from design consistency to the story you want your app to tell....
Using spatstat raster layers and point process models to ask how neurons, astrocytes and microglia sit relative to each other...
Bluesky International, a Woolpert company, has launched Building Footprints, a new Great Britain-wide dataset that gives organisations an accessible, cost-effective foundation for linking property information to over 24.5 million individual buildings...
Key Takeaways Asset mix decides the shortlist. A distribution fleet of trucks and an earthworks site with 50 excavators, dozers and rented cranes need different platforms. Tracking is not the same as management. Location is the starting point. Utilization, fuel, maintenance, safety and allocation ar
I took a real Shapefile with almost 1.1 million polygons and converted it to GeoParquet three different ways. The file went from over 1.4 GB of source data down to 246 MB, opened cleanly in QGIS, and ran spatial queries in seconds instead of minutes....
Bathymetric surveys provide essential data for water resource management, reservoir assessment, and engineering planning. In remote areas, limited network coverage and field resources can complicate data collection. This case study presents a streaml...
GPS data isn't always available for ad targeting, but advertisers can still identify relevant inventory. Learn how accurate IP geolocation and IPinfo Places provide building-level venue context to improve location targeting, verify inventory, and help publishers differentiate their supply.
NextGIS Frontend 4.0, custom forms and improved search for web maps, our own Overpass API, workshop materials, and more