GeoSpatial Knowledge Hive

ESRI Story Maps  Link to website: http://storymaps.esri.com/stories/2013/airports/ Image by  Emslichter  from  Pixabay   Which airport are among first 25 busiest : Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport Beijing Capital International Airport London Heathrow Airport Tokyo International Airport O'Hare International Airport Los Angeles International Airport Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport Dallas Fort Worth International Airport Soekarno-Hatta International Airport Dubai International Airport Frankfurt Airport Hong Kong International Airport Denver International Airport Suvarnabhumi Airport Singapore Changi Airport Amsterdam Schiphol Airport John F. Kennedy International Airport Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport Madrid Barajas Airport Ataturk International Airport Shanghai Pudong International Airport San Francisco International Airport McCarren International Airport Charlotte Douglas International Airport Phoenix Sky Harbor Internatio

SmartMine technology team at GeoEngineers are tracking whales using GIS and Sensors  Image by skeeze from Pixabay Data Set: Cascadia Research, data set of whales around Hawaiian Island. (Dr. Robin Baird) Its visually pleasing:  http://whales.smartmine.com/ image source: http://whales.smartmine.com/ 

GeoSheets  relates google sheet data for Geo-spatial queries Image by digital designer from Pixabay Common Application : Geo-Coding, Business Maps Applications : https://www.geosheets.com/use_cases  Image Source: Geo-sheets  Image Source: Geo-sheets  Image sources: https://www.geosheets.com

Noise Pollution Mapping  Objective of website : Compute the noise level in your city Designed For:  DESIGNED FOR ACOUSTICIANS, RESEARCHERS, TEACHERS AND STUDENTS Data Set : GIS based  http://noisemap.orbisgis.org/ http://noisemap.orbisgis.org/

Mapping of population & climate change indicators made easy by Terra Populus to achieve UN Sustainable Development Goals ( SDGS ) Imagesource:Pixabay  What it Does : It provides GIS based data set, that combines population and climate data of 160 countries approx. Explanation : Picture below explains data cycle image source: https://data.terrapop.org/ Kinds of Data Available: Census and survey micro-data describing the characteristics of individuals and their families and households. Aggregate census and survey data , describing the characteristics of places, including aggregate population characteristics, land use, and land cover. Data derived from remote-sensing describing land cover and other environmental characteristics Climate data describing temperature , precipitation , and other climate-related variables Vector-based geographic information system (GIS) data delineating administrative and census unit boundaries   (Text source: https://www.terra

Geo Marketing is evolving field of marketing that uses GIS & Geography with modern IT Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay What it does : It analyze Target Market Customer Dynamics Market Expansion Strategy and much more using customer location. Any Example : Store wants to open a new chain in sector A, to select best location it will analyze a point that catches maximum customers using GIS. Around the world various companies provide Geo-Marketing services. How can you benefit:  A layman can make simple decisions using Google Maps or like products or online available tools like cartodb, mango maps etc  for simple decision making. image source:  Assignment Point

How GIS started, how it evolved, what was first application of GIS  John Snow’s analysis of the cholera outbreak in London in 1854 was the first ever application of GIS. Cause of disease, was examined spatially and water well were found to be the source of spreading cholera. Although this was all human visualization and interpretation on paper maps, but it is marked as first ever GIS Application .                                                                Happy GIS Day 2016  image source : https://blogs.esri.com