open-camera

In a collaboration between our blogs, we are posting the translated version of Anton Biatov’s post from GIS-Naturalist.   Most modern smartphones have a built-in GPS-module. This is a convenient tool to quickly collect field data. All that is needed is to simply take photos of objects in question. The photo metadata will store all […]

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Michael-Puzrakov-Intellias

Intellias is one of the few employers in Ukraine that offer positions in the area of geospatial technologies. The company is also the organizer of  “Map Solutions”, a digital mapping, navigation, and LBS conference. 50 North had a chat with Intellias’ co-founder and COO, Michael Puzrakov, about the story of creation and development of the best […]

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IPS

More and more people are traveling every year, while less and less of them are using conventional paper maps. Just 10 years ago, before arriving to a foreign city it was necessary to look up the address of a tourist information office to get a city map there. Today, in contrast, we can easily find […]

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mobile_apps

In this post you will learn about several mobile GIS and data collection apps, some of their strengths and weaknesses. Everyone who deals with geodata may have also encountered data collection in the field. Traditionally field data collection was performed using paper forms, paper maps, theodolites, compasses, circumferentors and so on. Now we can use […]

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