A screenshot of the heat map feature on the Police Department's updated GIS system, developed by Grant Ervin and his team. A screenshot of the heat map feature on the Police Department’s new GIS ...

For the past two decades, location data has helped fuel the digital economy. It’s the little helper that guided us to the nearest coffee shop, summoned a ride to our doorstep, let us check in at a ...

Google to sell rooftop solar mapping data New application programming interfaces (API) datasets from Google are designed for solar marketplace websites, solar installers, software-as-a-service (SaaS) ...

Today, TomTom is launching a new Location Based Services platform and a Developer Portal that is designed to give app developers easy access to its mapping content and the tools to use it properly.

Software architects face an important technical problem when they must decide how to best interact with backend database systems. The decision often comes down to the Hibernate vs. JDBC debate, as the ...

Microsoft’s platform-based approach to cloud development has allowed it to offer managed versions of many familiar elements of the tech stack, especially within its data platform. As well as its own ...

There are fascinating and useful treasure troves of data out there, and APIs let you get at them. Here’s a look at the wide world of APIs for finding and manipulating data in your applications. APIs, ...