GeoWGS84 Corporation, the proprietor of the LizardTech® geospatial software range, has rolled out a new educational licensing initiative that grants eligible educational entities across the globe annual free licenses of GeoExpress® Professional. This program is a step to help universities, colleges, and research companies get access to professional GIS image compression technologies for their educational and research activities. The eligible institutions may receive a free an

Urban planning is becoming more and more complex, with cities experiencing rapid population growth and infrastructure issues related to climate change and the need for sustainable development. Traditional urban planning processes have relied on historical data, manual surveys, and limited sources of information. Governments and organizations have often struggled to make timely decisions based on good data because of these challenges. GeoAI provides an answer to these challeng

Geospatial data makes possible everything from interactive web maps and GPS navigation to AI-based spatial analytics and digital twins. Picking a file format is also important because it affects your application's performance, storage costs, and how well the new application will work with other applications and systems, as well as its ability to grow over time. The most common geospatial formats used today are GeoPackage (GPKG), GeoJSON, and GeoParquet. Each of these formats

Selecting an appropriate file format for geographic data will have a drastic effect on how you share the data, the efficiency of analyzing the data, the amount of storage you need to maintain the data, and how easily you can work with data from separate sources. The two most commonly used GIS formats are ESRI Shapefile and GeoJSON. ESRI Shapefile has been the GIS format used by most organizations for many years. However, GeoJSON has become the preferred GIS format for web map