Posts by chris.morabito:

When GIS Met STREAM:RASTER™

Thursday, September 26th, 2019 By Chris Morabito cool things, fresh ideas

I am thrilled to announce the release of Woolpert’s new product, STREAM:RASTER™. STREAM:RASTER is a break-through platform for hosting geospatial imagery in the cloud. In 2011, Woolpert released SmartView Connect®, a web-based platform for viewing imagery and other data sets. While beloved by our clients for image quality and performance, SmartView Connect does have its […]

Woolpert @ Google Cloud Next ‘19

Friday, April 19th, 2019 By Chris Morabito cool things, fresh ideas

San Francisco played host to Google’s annual Cloud Next conference from April 9 to 11, 2019. The week saw a flood of new products and enhancements across Google Cloud and G Suite—122 total (by Google’s count). To help you find the most relevant ones, I’ll point out a few of the most exciting announcements. Kubernetes […]

CARTO Locations 2018 – A New Era of GIS

Wednesday, June 6th, 2018 By Chris Morabito cool things, fresh ideas

At their Locations conference in Brooklyn this year, CARTO set forth a new vision for their company and the GIS industry, as a whole. CARTO is moving away from “traditional GIS” and focusing their platform on what they call “location intelligence”. Traditionally, GIS has focused on visualization and calculation, but CARTO aims to be in […]

Accurate Navigation Coming to a Phone Near You

Tuesday, May 15th, 2018 By Chris Morabito cool things, fresh ideas

At last week’s Google I/O developer festival, engineers from Google’s Android location team previewed some exciting advancements coming soon to Android mobile devices. Two technologies will significantly improve location accuracies: Wi-Fi round-trip time (RTT) will enhance indoor location accuracy and enable indoor navigation. Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) will achieve sub-meter location accuracy outdoors in […]