This is a guest post from John Schaeffer of Juniper GIS. John is the creator and instructor for our Working with Geodatabase and Linear Referencing e-learning course (self-paced and instructor led). In this example, you can see that we have addresses for 100 East...
Another fantastic data visualization tool has been released by Google. The Google Public Data Explorer (currently in labs) makes large publicly available datasets available for exploration, visualization, and communication. Visualizations of public data can be...
Google has announced a new Geocoding Web Service which contains a number of improvements over its previous version including the following: A flatter response format for address components that is easier to parse The ability to tag an address component with multiple...
I’m really impressed with the recently announced World Topographic base map from ESRI. As James Fee noted on his his blog, “the cartography just catches your eye.” According to ESRI the map is designed to be used as a basemap by GIS professionals...
I’m surprised the announcement that ESRI is collaborating with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bring ArcGIS Server into its cloud computing environment isn’t getting more attention. This, in my opinion, is a significant development even though it will...