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Aug
08
🌿 Real Time GIS, Monitoring Seabird Populations, GIS Opportunities, and More

🌿 Real Time GIS, Monitoring Seabird Populations, GIS Opportunities, and More

Looking for ways to give back? Here's how!
3 min read
Aug
06
⏳ Geospatial Volunteer Opportunities in 2025

⏳ Geospatial Volunteer Opportunities in 2025

If you are looking for ways to give back to the GIS community, develop skills, build relationships and learn about new needs in the location tech world volunteering can be a great way to contribute.
2 min read
Jul
29
☎️ Real Time Emergency Response,  Open Source Vector Tiles

☎️ Real Time Emergency Response, Open Source Vector Tiles

🦺 Real Time Emergency Response In emergency response events, real time cooperation between multilevel agencies, groups and teams is critical, even
2 min read
Jul
23
🛟 SARCOP - An Application Built for Real Time Cooperation

🛟 SARCOP - An Application Built for Real Time Cooperation

Developed by the National Search and Rescue Geospatial Coordination (NSARGC) Group, as a means to further centralize and integrate location tech during national and local search and rescue events.
5 min read
Jul
18
New Data Sources, A Resource Kit, and Improved Living Standards 📊

New Data Sources, A Resource Kit, and Improved Living Standards 📊

Add these Geospatial Data Sources to your workflow - 2025 🧩 The location tech industry is rapidly changing. With cuts to
2 min read
Jul
18
🧩Add these Geospatial Data Sources to your workflow - 2025

🧩Add these Geospatial Data Sources to your workflow - 2025

Often the hardest part of any location based project is the underlying data. Hunting down data sources can be challenging
2 min read
Jul
18
🌀Essential Geospatial Resource Kit

🌀Essential Geospatial Resource Kit

I’ve gathered lots of great resources and I wanted to share them with you so you can have them all in one place instead of having to organize them or rely on bookmarks.
1 min read
Jul
17
Sunsetting Glitch, Geodatabase news and Joining NASA Response Mapping 🐠

Sunsetting Glitch, Geodatabase news and Joining NASA Response Mapping 🐠

Nothing lasts forever - So long, Glitch.com I'm personally really bummed about this one. Read my full
2 min read
Jul
09
saying goodbye to glitch.com 🎏

saying goodbye to glitch.com 🎏

Glitch.com is going away. In a statement on their website. The Glitch team announced substantive and what seems like pretty clear changes to their service offerings.
4 min read
Jun
20
♻️ Intelligence Analysis & Earthquake Intensity Symbology

♻️ Intelligence Analysis & Earthquake Intensity Symbology

You’re back. We’re back. Let’s get into it. TSA Implementing AI into Geospatial Systems 🩻 By including AI
3 min read