https://gisuser.com Mobile, Technology, and Business news Tue, 09 Oct 2018 00:17:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.6 https://gisuser.com/2017/08/where-are-you-running-off-to-open-source-gis-and-fitness-route-tracking/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=where-are-you-running-off-to-open-source-gis-and-fitness-route-tracking Wed, 16 Aug 2017 22:39:04 +0000 http://gisuser.com/?p=62915 Mapping is becoming more relevant to the average person’s every day activities than ever before. From fitness trackers like Fitbit to the Apple Watch and the activity and workout apps available for iOS to cycling and running apps like Strava and Map my Run, people are using maps to visualize their fitness, and share those […]

The post Where are You Running Off To? Open Source GIS and Fitness Route Tracking appeared first on GIS user technology news.]]> https://gisuser.com/2017/08/a-sure-bet-on-location/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-sure-bet-on-location Tue, 08 Aug 2017 16:21:43 +0000 http://gisuser.com/?p=62847 This October, the Supreme Court will hear a landmark case on the repeal of the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) passed by Congress in 1992. The act prohibits sports betting in all states except Nevada, Oregon, Montana, and Delaware. These states were grandfathered in, and therefore exempt to the law. The case started […]

The post Feature – States’ Rights: A Sure Bet on Location appeared first on GIS user technology news.]]> https://gisuser.com/2017/03/vault-7-security-and-location-data/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vault-7-security-and-location-data Wed, 15 Mar 2017 16:13:10 +0000 http://gisuser.com/?p=61704 Not long ago, I talked here about UAV Cloud Data: we are generating a ton of location data, and need some effective way to store it on the cloud. Two things have to be considered: it needs to be secure, so it cannot be accessed by just anyone, but it also needs to be available […]

The post Vault 7: Security and Location Data appeared first on GIS user technology news.]]> https://gisuser.com/2017/01/feature-finding-jesus-using-gis-and-gpr/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feature-finding-jesus-using-gis-and-gpr Tue, 17 Jan 2017 05:41:00 +0000 http://gisuser.com/?p=61325 As GIS Users we know GIS has amazing power. I have written about how it has the ability to enhance marketing efforts, do good things for the environment by helping us track light pollution, and even use the past to inform the present. GIS can also help solve mysteries. The story of this one started […]

The post Feature – Finding Jesus Using GIS and GPR appeared first on GIS user technology news.]]> https://gisuser.com/2016/12/mapping-reform-where-are-things-likely-to-change/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mapping-reform-where-are-things-likely-to-change Tue, 06 Dec 2016 15:41:46 +0000 http://gisuser.com/?p=61077 In the uncertain times following this election, one thing is for sure. Things will change over the next few years with a Republican president bent on change and a congress likely to cooperate with him. Using GIS data is not just about showing the way things are, but from the demographic information we gathered during […]

The post Mapping Reform: Where are Things Likely to Change? appeared first on GIS user technology news.]]> https://gisuser.com/2016/11/feature-essential-tools-for-gis-professionals/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feature-essential-tools-for-gis-professionals Fri, 04 Nov 2016 18:11:20 +0000 http://gisuser.com/?p=60771 I fell into being a GeoGeek accidentally. Like many experiences I had in college, I never intended to be a GIS professional. I wrote technical reports, loved maps, and wanted a way to integrate them into my reports, so I took a course from ESRI online. Then another, and another, and so on. I was […]

The post Feature – Essential Apps and Tools for GIS Professionals appeared first on GIS user technology news.]]> https://gisuser.com/2016/10/feature-gis-and-the-nfl-sustainability-and-millennial-fans/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feature-gis-and-the-nfl-sustainability-and-millennial-fans Fri, 28 Oct 2016 10:40:48 +0000 http://gisuser.com/?p=60681 Some NFL television ratings have been suffering and for a number of reasons this season, and while it seems like a perfect storm, the week 6 tie between the Seahawks and the Cardinals on Sunday night saw a resurgence that says all hope may not be lost for the league and its advertisers. Millennials, the […]

The post Feature – GIS and the NFL: Sustainability and Millennial Fans appeared first on GIS user technology news.]]> https://gisuser.com/2016/08/trumped-the-map-that-made-donald-the-republican-nominee/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=trumped-the-map-that-made-donald-the-republican-nominee Thu, 04 Aug 2016 14:38:02 +0000 http://gisuser.com/?p=59749 Republican mapmakers gained what they perceived to be a huge victory following their landslide state election wins in 2010 through gerrymandering and redistricting dozens of states, so much so that their victory will probably last a decade or more. “There is a real irony with GIS. The technology theoretically permits states to consider a vast […]

The post Trumped: The Map That Made Donald the Republican Nominee appeared first on GIS user technology news.]]> https://gisuser.com/2016/06/feature-the-drones-youre-looking-for-the-where-of-drone-technology/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feature-the-drones-youre-looking-for-the-where-of-drone-technology Fri, 10 Jun 2016 11:45:51 +0000 http://gisuser.com/?p=59036 The FAA is still figuring it out, and all of us who love maps are drooling over the potential of high definition photography and even virtual reality for creating high definition maps and 360 degree views of locations all over the globe. The private drone sector is exploding as smaller craft become both more affordable […]

The post Feature – The Drones You’re Looking For: The Where of Drone Technology appeared first on GIS user technology news.]]> https://gisuser.com/2016/04/feature-here-and-now-location-based-marketing-and-high-definition-mapping/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feature-here-and-now-location-based-marketing-and-high-definition-mapping Wed, 27 Apr 2016 17:25:18 +0000 http://gisuser.com/?p=58191 Why would a retail giant like Amazon be interested in investing in a mapping company? That’s the first question many will ask when they discover the company is reportedly in talks with a consortium of German automakers for a stake in the high definition mapping company HERE. But there are several logical reasons, and they […]

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