Discrete Global Grid Systems (DGGS) have emerged as a robust framework for organising and analysing geospatial data across the entire Earth. By partitioning the globe into a hierarchy of optimally ...

Today platforms including Open Source solutions for Big Data (like Hadoop) and GIS Mapping solutions (like ESRI), SAP HANA, and BigTable, a highly scalable distributed storage system that is used in ...

Summary: Google’s Research division has introduced new geospatial AI foundation models. With these models integrated into Gemini 2.5, you can ask complex questions in natural language and get detailed ...

The Overture Maps Foundation, a collaborative effort to build interoperable open map data, is offering the general availability of its Global Entity Reference System (GERS)—providing a unique ID for ...

Open the Planetary Computer data catalog and you will find all kinds of useful data: from decades’ worth of satellite imagery to biomass maps, from the US Census to fire data. All together, there are ...

Unique IDs make it easier and cheaper to attach data to geospatial entities, such as buildings, streets, places, etc. SAN FRANCISCO, June 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Overture Maps Foundation, a ...

Musa Kazim Azimli, a fifth-year doctoral candidate in history at the University of Virginia, tells the stories of spaces that no longer exist. Specializing in slavery in the Middle East, his research ...

This Futures Lab series uses big data and geospatial analysis to uncover how authoritarian states and non-state actors carryout gray zone operations, and explores how innovative analytic methods can ...

South Australia’s Country Fire Service is adding new geospatial and mapping tools to boost its bushfire management methods across the state.

Don Murray is cofounder of Safe Software and has spent his career helping organizations bring life to data to make better decisions. How many times a day do you think about the word "where"? It likely ...