A 2012 Mashable report showed that 75% of American mobile users plan to use their device for online shopping, 42% intend to purchase big and small ticket items, and 32% are inclined in using mobile mobile apps.
Guest Expert – Fly to Every World Cup Stadium On the Map – With Social Media Updates!
A fun soccer(football) themed contribution from our friends at Echosec Systems, Ltd., BC, Canada – developers of the Echosec social map search service
Infographic – The Past and Future of Drones in the U.S.
Americans have a long love affair with aviation, so why should unmanned aviation be any different? Truth is, it probably won’t be, as tens of thousands of unmanned aerial vehicles, also known as drones, will launch into the skies over the U.S. in the next couple of decades. What’s our history with drones, how are […]
The week’s Most popular, most talked about, most Tweeted, and most shared GeoTech GISuser stories
The week’s Most popular, most talked about, most Tweeted, and most shared GeoTech GISuser stories and tech tips – Welcome.. the following are some of the top GeoTech items of interest we shared this week:
Top 10 Most Wanted Municipal Datasets Identified at 2014 Open Data Summit
Early in 2014 in Vancouver, BC, Canada the OpenData summit took place – an event for stakeholders, individuals, government, and businesses that are interested in OpenData and OpenData related matters. During the event the organizers conducted a survey of attendees to determine what are the top opendata sets that people want. The following results were […]
Editor Sought for Cartography and Geographic Information Science
Report confirms that climate change is affecting every region of the US
The Obama Administration recently released the Third National Climate Assessment for the United States. No huge surprise here as the report confirms that climate change is affecting every region of the United States and key sectors of the U.S. economy. Obama Administration releases Third National Climate Assessment for the United States From the report… Certain […]
3D scanning to Preserve a National Treasure from the 1964 World’s Fair
Here’s details of an amazing project from Cyark who are wanting to preserve a piece of American history. From the company… “we’ve launched our first ever Kickstarter campaign to fund the scanning of the 1964 World’s Fair New York State Pavilion in NYC, in partnership with University of Central Florida and the New York City […]
Geography community Will Miss Dr. Roger Tomlinson – the Father of GIS
A loss to the Community… regrets to share that Dr. Tomlinson has passed away…this comes via the CAG Academic discussion list Tomlinson is generally recognized as the “father of GIS.” He is the visionary geographer who conceived and developed the first GIS for use by the Canada Land Inventory in the early 1960s. This and […]
OpenStreetMap Edits – 20 million and counting!
Some of the latest stats from the OSM gang reveal 20 million edits to the popular OSM basemap and counting…
