Digital maps are important and necessary tools for everyday living. People rely on them for everything from tracking packages, to navigating from point A to point B, to improving fleet management.

The map data that makes digital maps [...]

COVID-19 has highlighted the fault lines of Africa’s health and infrastructure – a decades-long challenge that’s slowly being overcome. In the past twenty years, the development of retail, industry, and foreign direct investment by other [...]

Historical traffic data is among the most important information available to GIS professionals. As the Internet of Things (IoT) proliferates, “connected everything” becomes the norm, and urbanization adds layers of complexity and density to the [...]

Businesses, professional drivers and consumers rely on a wide range of in-dash and portable navigation systems and devices, mobile apps and fleet management systems to quickly and easily optimize routes, reduce overall mileage, improve [...]

Global ecommerce is predicted to reach $740 billion by 2023.¹ This mind boggling number is hardly a surprise given that three-quarters of consumers surveyed by Statista report shopping online anywhere from once a week to once a month.²That’s [...]

Traffic data can be parsed into a number of different categories — foot, air, marine, freight, supply chains — but, by and large, the most common type is vehicular traffic on typical road networks.¹ As such, local governments, urban development [...]

Shapefile (.shp) and File Geodatabase (.gdb). Both are storage formats for spatial data originally developed by Esri and can be used in Esri software. On the surface it appears as though there's no compelling reasons to choose one format over the [...]

Finding answers to your HERE Location Services questions just got easier thanks to HERE Knowledge Base. Curated by the HERE team, this new public database includes an array of technical articles, how-to’s, and solutions focused on answering [...]

Worldwide, an estimated 1 billion drivers use digital maps daily.¹ Routing is based on certain algorithms and road function classes to expedite travel times by avoiding delays, traffic congestion, or other disruptions. On-demand navigation is so [...]

If market value is any indication of popularity, the $54 billion currently being spent on autonomous vehicles (AV)¹ around the world is sending a clear message. AV is here to stay.Supporting the advancements in the AV industry requires an [...]