Google Earth Enterprise and ArcGIS Earth Updates
While Google has announced to open-source its code of Google Earth Enterprise, Esri has released an update of ArcGIS Earth that enhances the on-premises experience. Google made two recent announcements about the future of two of its mapping products. First, they...
Time Lapse of Wildfire Activity in the U.S. – 2002 through 2016
In previous articles I have described the use of spatial analytics in wildfire activity from the year 2002-2015. Using this same dataset and Carto with Torque I have created a time lapse of wildfire activity in the U.S. from 2002 through 2015. Need help with a...
Analyzing Wildfire Activity with Spatial Analytics – Part 3
Read Part 1 Read Part 2 In the third installment of our series on analyzing wildfire activity using spatial analytics we’re going to examine the spatial distribution of human induced and naturally occurring wildfires throughout the United States. In the first...
Getting to Know GeoJSON
GeoJSON is a geospatial data format that has become quite popular in the last few years. This blog post discusses what GeoJSON is, how you can create it and some Esri tools that enable using the format. What is GeoJSON? The GeoJSON data format is a data format based...