Eric van Rees is a freelance writer and editor. His specialty is GIS technology. He has more than nine years of proven expertise in editing, writing and interviewing as editor and editor-in-chief for the international geospatial publication GeoInformatics, as well as GIS Magazine and CAD Magazine, both published in Dutch. Currently, he writes about geospatial technology, programming and web development.
AR-based navigation is here to stay. After Mapbox, Google recently introduced a new navigation service that uses augmented reality (AR) technology on smartphones. It has big plans for the future, applying computer vision and AR where possible. Meanwhile, the first new competitor in this space announced itself.
As data update frequencies and acquisition resolution keep increasing, photogrammetry is becoming a huge challenge. nFrames is here to help.
A partnership between Carto and Mapbox doesn´t come unexpectedly, as both companies are well-known providers…
Mapillary and Esri have tightly integrated GIS features and community-captured street level imagery, enhancing GIS workflows and enabling new ones.
vGIS enables field workers to visualize georeferenced GIS data of utility assets around them as holograms by using VR/AR/MR technology.
Civilmaps is using edge computing to make lidar basemaps scalable for use in autonomous vehicles.
Czech startup Melown offers photogrammetric services with an integrated platform for 3D map application development, among others.
Last November, right after raising $164 million in funding, mapping company Mapbox announced the acquisition…
We move one step closer to city models we can monitor in real time.
Last October, Hexagon acquired Luciad, a Belgian geospatial software provider specializing in visualization and analysis…