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From GDR's services page | == Partners == | ||
earthmine | |||
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Tiburon | |||
Tritech | |||
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* Public Safety Geofile Services | * Public Safety Geofile Services | ||
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* Partner Programs | * Partner Programs | ||
== What's a Geofile? == | === What's a Geofile? === | ||
I think it's probably a proprietary format used by Tiburon dispatch software. | I think it's probably a proprietary format used by Tiburon dispatch software. | ||
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"GeoServices Engine" is an automated data review. | "GeoServices Engine" is an automated data review. | ||
== What's Britedata? == | === What's Britedata? === | ||
It's a set of business intelligence tools/services that are a GDR product. [http://www.gdr.com/solutions_britedata.htm] A couple examples: | It's a set of business intelligence tools/services that are a GDR product. [http://www.gdr.com/solutions_britedata.htm] A couple examples: | ||
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Who is using it? | Who is using it? | ||
== What's earthmine? == | === What's earthmine? === | ||
It was a Berkeley startup that has been acquired by Nokia and they built [http://here.net Here]. | It was a Berkeley startup that has been acquired by Nokia and they built [http://here.net Here]. | ||
Revision as of 17:49, 25 April 2015
Partners
earthmine ESRI Tiburon Tritech
From GDR's services page
- Public Safety Geofile Services
- GIS Data Review
- Addresspoints
- Britedata
- earthmine
- Other GIS Services
- Partner Programs
What's a Geofile?
I think it's probably a proprietary format used by Tiburon dispatch software. In this context "geofile service" would mean converting data provided in sundry formats into the right format for inclusion in Tiburon. Done that, extensively, just never called it a "geofile". At AGI I used ESRI geodatabase files, first PGDB then FGDB for functional data and anything for display-only data.
"The geofile is a database of standardized locations, including specific house numbers and streets names, commonplace names (Jackson Park), and intersections. The geofile insures that locations are within the jurisdiction, within a valid block number range, and are consistently entered and entered (which assists in later searches)" -- Dispatch Magazine, [1] Based on this definition, then a geofile is what I called functional data.
See also the GDR Geofile Services page.
GIS data review
This is described on the Geofile Service page.
"GeoServices Engine" is an automated data review.
What's Britedata?
It's a set of business intelligence tools/services that are a GDR product. [2] A couple examples: since GDR has amassed a wealth of address data, they can capitalize on this by helping customers clean their own address data by comparing it with GDR data. They can also identify potential clients in a given geographic area that are near existing clients.
Who is using it?
What's earthmine?
It was a Berkeley startup that has been acquired by Nokia and they built Here.
Earthmine's big thing is 3D data collection using photos (like Google Streetview), which is of course very cool but I have not seen that yet.
You can see addresses in the photos, GDR uses that for address verification. Sounds pretty time-consuming unless you can use CV to dig out the address numbers. Hmmm... that would be pretty interesting...
I've seen demos of other products using both photo and LiDAR used to do this. It is very interesting for public works and planning applications.
"Here" looks exactly like Google Maps, right down to the annoying control that covers 20% of the map all the time. Disappointing. Nokia probably made them build that. :-)
