MapBytes
A glimpse into Insight GIS’ latest Spatial Forum
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have come a long way in revolutionising how we understand and interact with the world around us. From mapping and spatial analysis to data visualisation and decision-making, GIS has become an indispensable tool in various industries, including urban planning, environmental management, transportation, and even healthcare.
What’s going to be big in GIS in 2024?
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have come a long way in revolutionising how we understand and interact with the world around us. From mapping and spatial analysis to data visualisation and decision-making, GIS has become an indispensable tool in various industries, including urban planning, environmental management, transportation, and even healthcare.
Top 20 Uses of GIS
GIS can be used in many different scenarios to help us understand today’s world better and accurately depict real-time information in localised areas to quantify population of people, objects, and risks. It can also help to visualise the activities or changes in data in regional areas.
4 Tips for Choosing Software for Local Governments
Councils and local governments have the responsibility of putting local communities at the top of their interests. Setting up technology environments and software systems are not excluded to this rule.
Earth Observation Data’s Part in Assessing the Impact of Global Warming
The dangers of global warming are increasing year on year and drastic change is needed to reverse the effects we are causing to our planet. Just in the last few years, we have seen unprecedented natural disasters caused by global warming such as the recent floods in...
Mapping Human Movement via Mobile Phone Usage Data – the Benefits
Nowadays, carrying a mobile phone is just as normal as your house or car keys. Mobile phones have become ubiquitous with online activity increasingly going up every year, with an app monitoring firm called “Annie”, reporting that the average person can spend up to 4.8...
The impact of GIS on understanding human movement
The rise of smartphones and tracking data has made way for opportunities to understand our world better. According to Statista, the number of mobile phones in the world was 14 billion as of 2020 and is predicted to go up to 18.2 billion in 2025. The world population...
How Earth Observation Data is used to Analyse Housing Shortages
Earth observation (EO) has become a vital part of analyzing real-time mapping data and visualizing changes that are impacting our world. EO research has evolved in the last few decades due to the increase of commercial and publicly owned satelites. According to the...
Draft Local Provisions Schedules for new Tasmanian Planning Scheme
Insight GIS has completed a number of online interactive maps for draft Local Provisions Schedules for the new Tasmanian Planning Scheme. So far, 11 Tasmanian councils are represented. You can view the online maps here.
Insight GIS wins industry award for MAST GIS
Insight GIS has won the award for Spatial Enablement at the 2018 Tasmanian Spatial Excellence Awards. The award was for the MAST GIS application which was developed with Marine and Safety Tasmania (MAST).