How GIS Aids in Predicting, Managing, and Recovering from Natural Disasters

Picture a scenario where emergency response teams, amid the chaos of a disaster, can swiftly aggregate and scrutinize real-time data from a multitude of sources.

GIS: The Unsung Hero in Combating Ecological Challenges

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) serve as a pivotal technology in handling, analyzing, and displaying spatial data. This technology is crucial for mining industries, allowing them to make well-informed decisions through precise, up-to-date information. This approach reduces risks and enhances efficiency.

Augmented Reality (AR) and GIS

Can you imagine a city planner being able to 'walk' through a proposed construction site with the new structures superimposed onto the real world? It getting more possible than ever to do so via a mobile device or Augmented Reality (AR) glasses.

WebGIS Development in 2023: A Guide to the Tools and Technologies I Use for Building Advanced Geospatial Applications

Selecting the right tools for any application from the start is the most crucial technical decision that you have to make and this story is going to help you with just that.

How to work with BIG Geospatial Data

I’ve been working as a freelance webGIS developer for over three years now and before that, I did a bachelors degree in GeoInformatics so I have had to work with geospatial data a lot.

Geospatial Data Analytics: The Key to Effective Public Administration

No matter how much the world changes and advances, the main responsibility of every government authority is effective public administration,

Location Health: A tool to check the environmental health score of any location

Millions of people every year die due to pollution. Just air pollution is attributed to causing more than 7 million premature deaths every year according to WHO.

How Geospatial data can help fight Pandemics

The Novel Corona Virus or the COVID-19 is wreaking havoc and it is not the first or last of such infectious diseases we have to face. In the recent past, we have also seen massive outbreaks of new infectious diseases like MERS,

The Corona Map: Help Fight Pandemic(s) with Data

In my last blog, I talked about the Corona Map, a minimalist portal my friend and I built to show the stats related to the Corona Virus for each country every consecutive day.

The Corona Map: Visualizing the Pandemic

The Novel Corona Virus, the Pandemic of the Century has brought hysteria all over the world. Stock markets witnessed their worst day since the 2008 crises and oil prices saw their biggest fall in 29 years.

Tools I recommend for building Geospatial Web Applications

Being a freelance WebGIS developer, it is very frequent for me to decide what tools I’ll need for my next project. Now after a few years of experience, this decision has become a bit easier

Illuminating human activities using the Night Light

Since the dawn of the mankind, humans have worked from dawn to dusk and rested after the sunset. But that has changed ever since the invention of the lightbulb by Thomas