From Selling Pixels to Selling Answers
This series of articles began in our Fall 2015 issue by focusing on the impact on vendors and users of geospatial technologies of Google’s decision to end support for Google Earth Enterprise (GEE). It has widened to present an array of new offerings that expand access to Earth observation data and give users new tools to analyze them. For this installment, I talked to John-Isaac Clark, Director of Product Management for Geospatial Big Data at DigitalGlobe; Todd Smith, Cesium Product Manager at AGI; and Matt Irwin, who handles business and government at Mapbox.
DigitalGlobe is launching a new platform, and new offerings: GBDX (Geospatial Big Data Platform), Maps API, crowdsourcing, and Spatial on Demand— plus AnswerFactory and the ArcMap Plugin as additional ways to consume these capabilities.