The advent of Google Maps, he recalls, changed the industry, as customers began to ask him why their expensive enterprise GIS was not as fast and as simple to use as Google Maps. “We really try to deliver applications that leverage geospatial data and are simple to use for the 95% of the people in an organization who don’t know how to use GIS, such as field technicians, operations people, and customer service representatives.” “We have a Web and mobile application called myWorld that addresses that market,” he says. He sees the possibility of Ubisense expanding in the future into new markets that share key characteristics with utilities and telecoms, such as local government or transportation, a space in which he has worked for a very long time. His company is working on Web and mobile solutions, mainly for utilities and communication companies, using a lot of open source software.īatty, who was previously CTO at Intergraph and at GE Smallworld, has been quite involved in open source software in the past decade. This diversity shows that geospatial technology has been maturing and becoming more commoditized, says Batty. This series has been exploring the offerings of a wide range of geospatial companies, addressing different problems in different verticals and often focused on very specific application areas and markets. The full story on Google’s decision to open source GEE, with a first-person interview with Google, appears here. This brings an end to our two-year series on options for organizations that would be looking for other solutions. Google Earth Enterprise (GEE) will become open source. Between them, they have more than 60 years of experience in the geospatial industry. The emphasis in the geospatial industry is increasingly on easy-to-use mobile applications that can be deployed on all major platforms, ingest external data, and run offline.įor this seventh and final installment in this series, I interviewed Peter Batty, CTO of the Geospatial Division of Ubisense, and Stuart Blundell, Director of Strategy and Business Development for Harris Geospatial Solutions, a business unit within the Harris Space and Intelligence segment of the Harris Corporation. An example is a new joint offering among Harris Geospatial Solutions, DigitalGlobe, and Esri. The Line Between vendors of Geospatial Software and providers of geospatial data is increasingly blurred, as more companies either provide both or partner with complementary companies. The Harris Geiger-Mode LiDAR wide-area mapping system captures 3D point cloud information at densities exceeding 100 points per square meter
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