Maps Helping those in Need During a Global Pandemic Food banks have always played an important role in our communities. With a global pandemic and economic downturn these organizations will help get us through the difficult times ahead.
Project GeoCMS: Bringing Together Content Management and Digital Mapping for Spatial Workers It's time for content management and digital mapping to come together and make something tailored for spatial workers!
Maps Bringing City Projects to Life with Drone Photos, Video, and Panoramas Governments do a lot of work to make their cities better and story maps are a great way to communicate how progress is being made in a community.
Project The Poseidon Project: An Open Idea to Stop the Melting of Ice Shelves in Western Antarctica The Poseidon Project is an open idea that seeks to address the melting of the ice shelves in Western Antarctica.
Use Case Success with Open Source Software in Local Government Get a high-level look at Open Source Software and how Garden Grove used it to save money and innovate.
Use Case Using Map-Based Software to Manage City Operations A real-world look at the critical software that's enabling cities to not just survive, but thrive.
Interview Working Together to Solve the Affordable Housing Crisis in America In this article we take a look at the NLC's recent report on affordable housing and hear from the people working together to help create safe and stable housing for all.
Crafty Cloud Geo Braille: First Prototype From the real earth, to the digital realm and back again. Tactile Maps are here and they will help all of us understand our changing planet and get motivated to take action!
Interview Professor Keith Clarke: Building the Foundation for the New Frontier of Mapping I interviewed Professor Keith Clarke of UCSB and learned about the new frontier of indoor mapping.
Interview Dr. Steven Steinberg: Making Ten Million Lives Better with GIS See how the intelligent nervous system is making a positive impact for everyone living in Los Angeles County!
Interview Featured Jack's Vision: A Technology to Connect the World and a Purpose-Driven Company to Make it Happen With the intelligent nervous system we’re shining light on darkness, making the invisible, visible. The creation and sharing of new knowledge is changing the world.
Crafty Cloud Esri User Conference Cruise, 2019 Go on a journey through the place and space where location brings together people from around the world.
Use Case How Can We Accurately Digitize Notes on Paper Maps from Field Operations? Using image recognition software we can increase the speed from field markups to digital data faster.
Crafty Cloud Fifth & Harbor at Sunrise, San Diego Experience the streets of downtown San Diego in this mash up of video, music, and tech.
Review Drone Technology and Data Drone technology is rapidly improving and plays an important role the Geo Cloud. Let's review what data drones can capture about the earth's surface.
Crafty Cloud Geo Braille I believe in a world where we can learn about our planet through sight and touch by creating a new way for people to engage with the geographic data of the world and collaborate with those that have a different perspective.
Maps Analyzing the Camp Fire in Paradise, CA I analyzed the one of the largest fires in California history to see the damage to vegetation using Landsat-8 imagery.
Philosophy Featured The Rise of the Geo Cloud The rise of the Geo Cloud has emerged from the fusion of geospatial science, cloud computing, open source software, open data policies, and a vibrant online community.
Data Work, Work, Work and Open Data at the City of San Diego Cities all around the world are starting to release their data in an effort to boost innovation and be more transparent. San Diego is one of those cities, the finest city in America.
Architecture How to Build an Affordable and Open-Sourced Mapping Application Using open-source projects and the event-driven architecture you can make a highly interactive web app with low costs so you can focus on building that great thing.
Use Case How Can Cities Identify and Map the Issues That Cause People to be the Most Upset? Using data from Open311 systems and natural language processing we can see where people are most upset and what issues they're most upset about.
