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Geo-analytics: 13 GIS Tools Every Practitioner Should Know

Geo-analytics: 13 GIS Tools Every Practitioner Should Know

Last year Will Cadell wrote Geospatial Analytics Will Eat The World, And You Won’t Even Know It With this in mind I will describe and illustrate 13 basic GIS analysis tools. The world doesn’t need to know these tools, but every GIS practitioner is advised to master them.

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19 Apr 2019 Willy Simons Leave a comment Geospatial Technology Geoanalytics, GIS

What Constitutes Geospatial Technology in 2018?

What Constitutes Geospatial Technology in 2018?

The GeoBuiz 2018 Report presents a bright outlook for the geospatial industry and predicts a larger role for it in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Geospatial is more aligned with ICT and Cloud, IoT, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Blockchain are key technology drivers.

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26 Jul 2018 Willy Simons Leave a comment Geospatial Technology geospatial, GIS, GNSS, GPS, remote sensing

Get Started with the ArcGIS Lesson Gallery

Get Started with the ArcGIS Lesson Gallery

The term GIS is losing some of its appeal to the buzz of geospatial, location intelligence, and spatial data science. Yet the popularity of these offshoots has increased the demand for GIS skills and capabilities, More people are becoming interested in learning GIS and the ArcGIS Lesson Gallery is an excellent school.

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21 Jun 2018 Willy Simons Leave a comment Geospatial Technology ArcGIS Pro, cartography, GIS, learning

How to Start Using ArcGIS Pro Tasks

GIS data editing is an arduous task that one rather assigns to junior and novice GIS staff. Such staff will use less efficient workflows and produce more errors. This presented a real dilemma. Now with ArcGIS Pro Tasks complicated workflows can be executed efficiently by a larger number of GIS staff.

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9 Dec 2017 Willy Simons Leave a comment Geospatial Technology ArcGIS Pro, GIS, productivity, tasks

Geospatial is Where in Data Science

Statement or question? Data science is in the news as a discipline that can solve business problems through big data. The fast-growing geospatial industry has been handling large volumes of spatial data for decades. Let’s look at both and find out how they can sustain each other’s growth.

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30 Nov 2017 Willy Simons Leave a comment Data Science data science, geospatial, GIS

What is the ArcGIS Platform?

ArcGIS is often referred to as a platform, but is not everything a platform these days? To answer the above question, this article will explore various platform definitions. It will then give an overview of ArcGIS, before indicating what kind of platform ArcGIS really is.

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26 Oct 2017 Willy Simons Leave a comment Geospatial Technology ArcGIS, GIS, platform, technology

How Many People Live in Kenya?

38.6 million people lived in Kenya in 2009 according to its national census. The population could reach 50 million by 2020, but the predictions depend on the data source and method used. In this article we look at some of the population data sources and their predictions.

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19 Oct 2017 Willy Simons Leave a comment Geospatial Technology GIS, Kenya, population, predictive modeling

5 Immediate Reasons for Upgrading to ArcGIS Pro

ArcGIS Pro is a 64-bit, multithreaded GIS desktop application that runs on Windows. It was first released in January 2015, but ArcMap appears to have remained the most popular ArcGIS Desktop application. In June 2017 Esri released ArcGIS Pro 2.0 and this might be an opportune time to make the switch to the new application.

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12 Oct 2017 Willy Simons Leave a comment Geospatial Technology ArcGIS Pro, geospatial, GIS

GIS for Asset and Work Order Management

Are you familiar with GIS, EAM and CMMS? Don’t worry, what I want you to remember from this article are business benefits and value of integrated asset and work order management in a GIS-enabled environment.

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18 May 2017 Willy Simons 1 Comment Geospatial Technology Asset Management, GIS, Work Order Management

Is GIS a Business Intelligence Solution?

Would you spend money on mapping software or rather buy a BI solution? Believe it, or not, you can get both by buying a Geographic Information System (GIS). Read the rest of the article to learn more about the Data Value Chain, GIS and BI.

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11 May 2017 Willy Simons Leave a comment Geospatial Technology analytics, BI, Data Value Chain, GIS

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