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I’m sure everyone knows about it by now, the iPhone 12 Pro has a LiDAR scanner. Apple touts it to help you take better pictures in low light and do some rudimentary AR on the iPhone. But, what ...

https://spatiallyadjusted.com/2020/10/29/the-iphone-12-pro-lidar-scanner-is-the-gateway-to-ar-but-not-in-the-way-you-think/

When this caught my eye I got really interested. Google AI is launching a website titled rǝ which reconstructs cities from historical maps and photos. You might have seen the underlying tool las...

https://spatiallyadjusted.com/2020/10/28/google-ai-project-recreating-historical-streetscapes-in-3d/

This is one of those surprised/not surprised things. Uber Technologies Inc. announced that it has entered into a Google master agreement under which the ride-hailing company will get access to Go...

https://spatiallyadjusted.com/2020/07/21/uber-and-google-sign-4-year-agreement-on-google-maps/

I started blogging in May of 2005. Right before Katrina hit and everything we knew about GIS disaster response changed. Katrina was that moment where the static image PDF of a map changed to a ma...

https://spatiallyadjusted.com/2020/06/23/it-is-different-with-covid-19/

There are many guesses as to why Facebook acquired Mapillary but the simplest reason is usually the correct one.

https://spatiallyadjusted.com/2020/06/22/facebook-acquiring-mapillary-is-more-than-you-think/

If you search my blog you’ll find an interesting post titled earthgoogle. Well it really isn’t that interesting, it just has a link to download Google Earth and a link to my blog. So what is ...

https://spatiallyadjusted.com/2020/03/11/the-story-behind-earthgoogle-2/

I first wrote about Fusion Tables back in 2010. Google Fusion Tables – Are you kidding me? These stuff is “teh awesome”. Fusion tables are going to be more “killer” than Google Maps wa...

https://spatiallyadjusted.com/2019/09/11/download-your-fusion-tables-data/

Yes everyone knows about What3Words.  It was an attempt to come up with an easy way to assign addresses for places where there are none.  In the end, a proprietary addressing system will never ...

https://spatiallyadjusted.com/2018/03/14/plus-codes-another-attempt-at-addressing-places-without-street-addresses/

Well I’m not sure how much this had to do with Waze being owned by Google or not but PhantomAlert is suing Waze. Before the advent of GPS and navigation apps, cartographers sneaked “paper to...

https://spatiallyadjusted.com/2015/09/03/waze-sued-for-allegedly-stealing-data-from-another-navigation-app/

Indoor mapping is the white whale of our Spatial IT industry.  We’re always reading about how our smartphones will lead us to the best deals or how I can find the specific nail I need in Ho...

https://spatiallyadjusted.com/2015/09/01/google-here-never-was/