Over the years I’ve had the opportunity to work in and with many different organisations; often in a trouble-shooting role. Typically by the time we arrive, things are a mess with symptoms including: a failure to recognise what is really going on within the organisation and events affecting it from outside; unclear and confused thinking at a […]
In the last post, I explored the need for a strategy and roadmap to guide the migration from Google’s deprecated products. In this one, I’ll discuss a methodology which could be used to structure a spatial strategy. At Spatial.IQ this methodology is at the heart of our consultancy and is called LINQ. No matter how […]
We’ve had a lot of really useful input on our posts about the Google / Esri relationship. The predominant reaction is fascination about what this means. The LINQ office is in The Dominion Observatory at the top of the cable car in Wellington, New Zealand. We have a conference room at the top of this historic […]
The Google / Esri announcement has caused a lot of discussion at LINQ aided by really useful feedback from readers of the first blog post. As the biggest upheaval in the spatial community in a decade or more, it deserves some attention. In this post, I want to take a look at some of the […]
Over the last few weeks, we’ve noted the deprecation of Google Maps Engine; the ending of the Google Earth API and then last week’s announcement that Google Earth Pro is now free. We’ve been asking ourselves what this means for the Google’s spatial enterprise customers and the picture became much clearer with an announcement from Esri, […]
We are very pleased to announce that after Martin’s news to finish his term with CERA at the end of January next year, that he will be joining the Spatial.IQ team on the 1st February 2015. Martin is no stranger to many in the geospatial sector. He comes with 20 plus years in the industry in […]
We got good feedback from the imagery post last week and got some questions that indicate that another post would be beneficial. This post needs to be slightly more technical but we’ll be gentle! One of the questions is why the imagery satellites can’t just keep snapping away to keep track of debris. Indeed, further confusion […]
The MH370 tragedy continues to dominate the world media. Frustrations are clearly boiling over – we all feel for the ordeal the families are going through. One area of frustration concerns imagery and we thought this blog post might assist in understanding some of the realities of imagery in situations like this.
When we set up Spatial.IQ, we began thinking about a business model that would allow us to attract the brightest and best geospatial professionals. In the small and intimate New Zealand market, that suggests we need to think out of the box. If we use a traditional ownership model, we quickly run out of financial […]
The classic definition of a GIS is that it is a system comprising the five elements of software, hardware, data, people and organisations. That definition has spanned from the very earliest days of GIS and as such is both a strength and a weakness. Having a long-standing definition is a strength because as a GIS […]